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The Deep Foundation Pit Excavation Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Site Preparation
- Trip and fall
- Hit by moving vehicles
- Unstable materials collapse
- 2. Site Clearance
- Hit by moving vehicles
- Noise pollution
- Dust
- asbestos and silica exposure
- 3. Utility Identification
- Electric shock
- Gas leaks
- Water pollution
- 4. Ground Surveying
- Slip
- trip and fall hazards
- Inadequate survey data
- 5. Machine Placement
- Machine overturn
- Proximity to excavations or buildings
- inadequate ground conditions
- 6. Excavation
- Ground instability and collapse
- Struck by flying debris
- Noise and vibration
- 7. Soil Removal
- Dust and silica exposure
- Manual handling injuries
- Hit by moving vehicles
- 8. Shoring installation
- Manual handling injuries,Collapse of shoring,Working at heights
- 9. Depth Measurement
- Confined space hazards
- Fall from height
- 10. Foundation Laying
- Collapse of pit
- Manual handling injuries
- Working at height
- Labelling or communications errors
- 11. Concreting
- Skin irritation
- Eye damage
- Chemical burns due to cement
- 12. Construction of Walls
- Falls from height
- Collapse of structure
- Noise pollution
- 13. Dewatering
- Water pollution
- Slip and trip hazards
- Electric shocks
- 14. Backfilling
- Struck by equipment
- Dust generation
- Collapse of edge protection
- 15. Site Restoration
- Disturbance to local ecology
- Trip and fall hazards
- Residual chemicals in soil