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The Excavation Work Over 1.5 Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Poor site assessment
- inaccessible area
- 2. Equipment Check
- Faulty machinery
- inadequate safety gear
- 3. Soil Analysis
- Unstable soil conditions
- hazardous contaminants
- 4. Marking Out
- Incorrect measurements
- unclear markings
- 5. Protective Measures
- Inadequate shoring
- improper barricades
- 6. Excavator Operation
- Falling debris
- equipment collision
- 7. Manual Digging
- Ergonomic issues
- hand tool injuries
- 8. Utility Identification
- Striking buried utilities
- miscommunication with utility provider
- 9. Inspections
- Incomplete inspection
- overlooked hazards
- 10. Load Transport
- Overloading trucks
- unstable load
- 11. Backfilling
- Poor compaction
- improper material selection
- 12.Cleanup & Demobilization
- Slips
- trips & falls,faulty dismantling of barricades