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The Excavating Under The Crane Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip and fall hazards
- Expired permits
- Insufficient briefing
- 2. Excavation surveying
- Inadequate lightening
- unstable soil or work surface
- 3. Equipment Inspection
- Maintenance deficiency
- improper use of equipment
- 4. Locating utilities
- Electric shock
- gas leak
- water flow interruption
- 5. Setting up barriers
- Improper installation could lead to accidental entry into the excavation
- 6. Excavating soil
- Collapsing walls
- Dust-inhalation
- manual handling injuries
- 7. Establishing support to excavation walls
- Collapse due to inadequate or faulty supports
- manual handling injuries
- 8. Regular inspection of excavation
- Accidents due to unnoticed changes in conditions
- 9. Positioning the crane
- Contact with power lines
- overloading
- ground instability
- collision accidents
- 10. Loading excavated materials
- Overturning vehicles
- falling load
- dust generation
- noise generation
- 11. Unloading at dump site
- Collision of machines and pedestrian
- dust
- noise
- 12. Tidying up the site
- Slip
- trip and fall hazards
- handling of hazardous waste.
- 13. Inspecting maintenance of equipment
- High-pressure fluid or gas
- uncontrolled release of energy
- 14. Emergency Procedures Training
- Non-awareness of procedures during a real emergency event
- 15. Documenting all activities
- Loss of data due to improper documentation or technical glitches.