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The Performing Ground Work Adjacent To Deep Excavation Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Falling into excavation
- injury from heavy equipment operation
- 2. Site Inspection
- Geotechnical hazards
- ground instability
- 3. Marking Excavation area
- Uneven surface
- hidden underground utilities
- 4. Set Up Safe Work Area
- Struck by moving vehicles
- tripping over ground materials
- 5. Install Safety Barriers
- Muscular strain from manual handling
- falling into the deep excavation
- 6. Dig Trench
- Contact with utilities
- cave-ins
- 7. Tools Check
- Injury due to faulty tools
- electrocution
- 8. Soil Assessment
- Exposure to harmful substances in soil
- misclassification of soil type
- 9. Daily Safety Briefing
- Miscommunication causing accidents
- non-compliance to safety measures
- 10. Excavation work
- Collapsing sides
- falling objects
- 11. Ladder Installation
- Falls during ladder installation
- incorrect ladder placement
- 12. Debris Removal
- Injury from sharp objects
- manual handling injuries
- 13. Final Inspection
- Missing hazard identification
- fatigue from prolonged work hours
- 14. Backfilling Process
- Entrapment in backfilled material
- Handling of heavy equipment
- 15. Site Clean up
- Tripping on leftover debris
- Hazardous chemical exposure
- 16. Documentation Completion
- incorrect data recording
- miscommunication
- 17. Equipment Sterilisation
- chemical burns
- inhalation of harmful disinfectants
- 18. Debriefing Team
- Misunderstandings resulting in wrong safety practices
- 19. Temporary Barricading
- potential injury from remaining exposed excavation
- misuse of path
- 20. Post Work Site Inspection
- missed safety precautions
- remaining hazards