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The Underground Utility Checks In Treed Landscapes. Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Unstable working surfaces
- interaction with wildlife
- 2. Locating Pipelines
- Collision with machinery
- material contamination
- 3. Excavation
- Collapse of open excavations
- underground utilities contact
- 4. Safety Barricading
- Failure of barricade
- incidental contact by public
- 5. Machine Operation
- Injury from machine operation
- noise exposure
- 6. Soil Examination
- Exposure to chemicals or hazardous substances
- injuries from soil fragments
- 7. Trenching
- Mudslides
- collapse of trench
- 8. Manual Handling
- Musculoskeletal Injuries
- Slips
- Trips and Falls
- 9. Gas detection
- Fires/Explosion hazards from flammable gases
- health hazard from poisonous gas
- 10. Surveying the area
- Failure to locate all services posing danger
- slip
- trips
- and falls
- 11. Landscaping
- Risk of falling branches
- interactions with harmful vegetation
- 12. Use of Utility Maps
- Inaccurate or out-of-date maps posing danger
- lapses in communication
- 13. Marking of Utilities
- Inadequate marking leading to utility damage
- poor visibility of markings
- 14. Post-Work Site Inspection
- Risk of overlooked threats
- failure in hazard communication
- 15. Crew Debriefing
- Miscommunication of safety measures
- overlook the detailed inspection results