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The Laying Sewer Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Manual handling injuries
- 2. Excavation
- Collapse of excavation walls
- Contact with underground services
- 3. Confined space entry
- Atmospheric hazards
- Entrapment
- 4. Pipe installation
- Crushing injuries
- Equipment malfunction
- 5. Backfilling
- Engulfment
- Uneven ground surfaces
- 6. Compaction
- Vibration exposure
- Soil displacement
- 7. Connection to existing system
- Water infiltration
- Encountering hazardous materials
- 8. Levelling and grading
- Inaccurate slopes
- Drainage issues
- 9. Trench shoring
- Ground instability
- Falling debris
- 10. Protection measures
- Falling into trenches
- Vehicle collisions
- 11. Dewatering
- Flooding
- Erosion
- 12. Pipe testing
- Leaks
- Pressure failure
- 13. Surface reinstatement
- Inadequate compaction
- Poor drainage
- 14. Final inspection
- Incomplete works
- Defects in materials
- 15. Disposal of waste material
- Improper waste classification
- Off-site contamination