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The Earth Retaining Structures Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Falling objects
- manual handling injuries
- 2. Delivery and storage of materials
- Manual handling injuries
- vehicle incidents
- 3. Installation of supports
- Collapsing of earth
- improper installation injuries
- 4. Excavation works
- Cave-ins
- falls
- 5. Installation of drainage system
- Falling objects
- wet environmental slips
- 6. Pouring concrete
- Skin irritants
- falling objects
- 7. Setting steel bars
- Crush injuries
- falling objects
- 8. Laying reinforcing mesh
- Movable machinery injuries
- moving object impact
- 9. Backfilling
- Collapse of structure
- exposure to dust
- 10. Cleaning and tidying up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- sharp objects
- 11. Monitoring
- Fall from heights
- structural collapse
- 12. Inspection
- Fall from heights
- tripping over loose materials
- 13. Maintenance
- Moving machinery parts
- falling objects
- 14. Dismantling and removing formwork
- Falling hazards
- manual handling injuries
- 15. Removal of supports
- Falling objects
- structural collapse
- 19. Project evaluation
- Stress hazards
- manual handling injuries
- 20. Safety briefing
- Lack of information
- poor understanding of risks