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The Digging Footings And Foundations Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Miscommunication
- inappropriate PPE
- 2. Site setup
- Trip hazards
- falling objects
- 3. Excavating soil
- Equipment failure
- manual handling injury
- 4. Setting out footings
- Incorrect measurements
- slip/trip hazards
- 5. Digging foundations
- Collapsing sides
- buried services
- 6. Placing and compacting fill
- Dust hazards
- noise hazards
- 7. Leveling ground surface
- Manual handling injury
- equipment malfunction
- 8. Installing steel reinforcement
- Cuts from steel
- falling objects
- 9. Constructing formwork
- Inappropriate use of tools
- manual handling injury
- 10. Pouring concrete
- Skin irritation
- back strain from handling
- 11. Finishing concrete surfaces
- Prolonged contact with wet cement
- dust inhalation
- 12. Curing concrete
- Chemical burns
- eye hazards
- 13. Removing formwork
- Manual handling injury
- falling objects
- 14. Backfilling
- Stability issues
- buried services
- 15. Site clean up
- Slips
- trips
- and falls
- improper waste disposal
- 16. Final inspection
- Miscommunication
- overlooked hazard
- 17. Project sign off
- Documentation errors
- miscommunication