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The Inspecting Work Area For Underground Services Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect service information
- Lack of safety equipment
- 2. Locating services
- Service strike
- Service disruption
- 3. Digging
- Service discovery
- Vibrations impact
- 4. Excavation control
- Cave-in
- Falls into excavation
- 5. Service identification
- Exposed live wires
- Gas leakage
- 6. Isolation of services
- Manual handling injury
- Service isolation failure
- 7. Service protection
- Failure to protect services
- Traffic wear impact
- 8. Materials Handling
- Manual handling injuries
- Slips
- trips
- falls
- 9. Equipment usage
- Misuse of equipment
- Accidental activations
- 10. Waste management
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Infection from waste exposure
- 11. Soil stabilization
- Soil collapse
- Trench collapsing
- 12. Backfilling and compaction
- Unequal pressure
- Manual handling injuries
- 13. Ground reinstatement
- Ground instability
- Hazards left in site
- 14. Final inspection and clean-up
- Remaining hazards
- Not secured area
- 15. Equipment de-mobilisation
- Handling heavy machinery
- Machinery malfunctions
- 16. Record keeping and reporting
- Miscommunication
- Missing documentation
- 17. Post-job brief
- Safety instruction negligence
- Miscommunication
- 18. Decommissioning of site
- Leftover hazards
- Misuse of equipment
- 19. Evaluation and feedback
- Neglecting feedback
- Miscommunication
- 20. Continual Improvement Processes
- Non-compliance of safety standards
- Ignoring improvement suggestions