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The Inspection Of Trenches Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- Lack of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- 2. Setting up barriers
- Traffic accidents
- Improper signage
- 3. Excavating trench
- Collapse of adjacent structures
- Contact with underground services
- 4. Inspection of trenches
- Inadequate inspection
- Falls into trench
- Confined space risks
- 5. Installing shoring
- Fall of person
- Fall of materials
- 6. Digging under roads
- Contact with traffic
- Vibration-related risks
- 7. Accessing trench
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Lack of access
- 8. Work in the trench
- Asphyxiation
- Drowning due to water ingress
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- Cave-ins
- 9. Backfilling
- Buried services
- Unstable loads
- 10. Removing shoring
- Falling hazards
- Structural instability
- 11. Final inspections
- Insufficient safety measures
- Overlooking hazard sources
- 12. Cleaning site
- Improper disposal of waste
- Tripping over tools or debris
- 13. Ladder removal
- Falls from height
- Incorrect handling technique
- 14. Area restoration
- Tripping over tools or debris
- Exposure to elements
- 15. Trench closure
- Cave-in
- Pedestrian accident
- 16. Review SWMS
- Inadequate understanding of SWMS
- Neglect of specific hazards
- 17. Training and induction
- Incomplete knowledge transfer
- Compensation-related risks
- 18. Equipment checks
- Equipment failure
- Lack of inspection
- 19. Emergency procedures
- Inadequate first aid training
- Ignorance of evacuation routes
- 20. Project closeout
- Miscommunication
- Remaining hazard sources