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The Trenching And Shoring Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- falling objects.
- 2. Danger zone identification
- Incorrect marking
- trip hazards.
- 3. Soil classification
- Incorrect assessment
- soil instability.
- 4. Trench layout design
- Inadequate design specifications
- incorrect measurements.
- 5. Excavating
- Cutting into live services
- trench collapse.
- 6. Utility identification
- Electric shock
- gas leaks.
- 7. Battering and shoring
- Trench collapse
- falling objects.
- 8. Edge protection
- Falls from height
- unstable edge.
- 9. Ladder/Climbing apparatus setup
- Fall from height
- equipment failure.
- 10. Excavated material/Spoil placement
- Trench collapse
- trip hazards.
- 11. Toolbox meeting
- Misinformed staff
- lack of understanding
- 12. Personal protective equipment usage
- Use of inappropriate PPE
- lack of compliance.
- 13. Regular inspections
- Missed hazards
- inadequate inspection.
- 14. Emergency procedures
- Lack of understanding
- insufficient training.
- 15. Backfilling
- Trench collapse
- machinery accidents.
- 16. Site clean-up
- Slips
- trips
- falls
- moving vehicles.
- 17. Post-work inspection
- Missed hazards
- incomplete remedial works.
- 18. Reporting & evaluation
- Misinformed staff
- missing reports
- 19. Waste disposal
- Manual handling injuries
- hazardous spill.
- 20. Completion and hand over
- Incomplete work
- lacking documentation.