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Key Features:
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The Enabling Ground Conditions Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Site Preparation
- Tripping hazards
- falling objects
- 2. Excavation Work
- Cave-ins
- Heavy equipment operation
- 3. Soil Evaluation
- Chemical exposure
- incorrect handling tactics
- 4. Installation of Supports
- Falling objects
- incorrect use of equipment
- 5. Shoring/Underpinning
- Collapse of structure
- contact with machinery
- 6. Backfilling Operations
- Uneven surfaces
- usage of heavy equipment
- 7. Site Restorage
- Manual handling injuries
- slips trips and falls
- 8. Equipment Maintenance
- High noise levels
- vibration
- 9. Waste Management
- Exposure to harmful substances
- improper disposal
- 10. Material Handling
- Manual handling injuries
- strike by moving vehicle
- 11. Trench Safety Procedures
- Cave-ins
- fall into trench
- 12. Utilities Identification
- Explosion from damaged utility lines
- electrical shock
- 13. Access and Egress
- Fall from height
- caught in-between surfaces
- 14. Emergency Responses
- Inadequate first aid treatment
- poor communication
- 15. Use of Machinery
- Misuse of machine
- entanglement
- 16. Ladder/Equipments Inspection
- Equipment failure
- falling from heights
- 17. Protection Against Falls
- Insufficient safety measures
- lack of personal protective equipment
- 18. Weather Conditions Assessment
- Slippery surfaces from rain
- heat stroke from sun exposure
- 19. Equipment Storage
- Unorganised work area
- incorrect stacking
- 20. Site Cleanup
- Manual lifting injuries
- slip and fall from uncleaned area