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The Hydro Excavation Processes Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Inadequate PPE usage
- 2. Job Assessment
- Incorrect procedure
- Miscommunication
- Mechanical failure
- 3. Setting up equipment
- Electrocution
- Manual Handling injuries
- 4. Excavation process
- Water jet hazards
- Noise pollution
- 5. Debris removal
- Contact with sharp objects
- Heavy lifting
- 6. Pipe/Utility Exposure
- Uncontrolled release of substances
- Crush injuries
- 7. Equipment checking
- Machinery malfunction
- Use of faulty devices
- 8. Material disposal
- Injury from hazardous substances
- Improper waste disposal
- 9. Site clean up
- Potential for slips
- trips
- and falls
- Improper handling of hazardous materials
- 10. Equipment demobilisation
- Manual handling hazards
- struck by moving vehicle
- 11. Reporting
- Paper cuts
- computer eye strain
- 12. Equipment maintenance & storage
- Equipment mishandling
- improper storage
- 13. Audit & Inspection
- Insufficient training
- ignoring safety requirements
- 14. Health & Safety Reviews
- Non-compliance to safety regulations
- suppression of information
- 15. Emergency procedures training
- Inappropriate responses
- panic during emergencies
- 16. Post job assessment
- Misinterpretation of results
- incorrect documentation
- 17. Equipment sterilisation
- Improper handling of chemicals
- insufficient PPE
- 18. Decommissioning
- Debris related injuries
- incorrect procedures
- 19. Team debriefing
- Miscommunication
- overlooking process improvements
- 20. Documentation and archiving
- Misidentification of data
- loss of important documentation