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The Shoring Benching and Pit Installation Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect tools
- manual handling injuries
- 2. Site Assessment
- Slips
- trips
- falls
- work near traffic
- 3. Excavation
- Collapse of excavation walls
- struck by excavator
- 4. Installing Shoring System
- Crushing injuries
- trapped body parts
- 5. Inspecting Shoring
- Falls from height
- shoring failure
- 6. Benching Installation
- Musculoskeletal injury
- contact with utilities
- 7. Pit Construction
- Collapse of pit walls
- confined space hazards
- 8. Materials Handling
- Crush hazard from materials
- manual handling injuries
- 9. Accessing and Exiting Pit
- Falls while entering or exiting
- collapse of edge
- 10. Monitoring & Inspection
- Inadequate monitoring
- unsafe access to pits
- 11. Backfilling & Compaction
- Entanglement in machinery
- engulfment by soil
- 12. Site Clean-up & Demobilization
- Slips and trips
- improper waste disposal