Excavation Pre-Works Checklist
Health & Safety Xpert™ Total Toolkit is an easy to use software package that will save you massive amounts of time producing crucial health and safety documentation legally required under current UK law. This includes the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the new Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations 2007.
The Excavation Pre-Works Checklist printout is available with Health and Safety Xpert Total Toolkit. Click here to view a sample Excavation Pre-Works Checklist PDF.
Under the Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations 2007, it is stipulated that excavations must be safe. It requires the employer to:
- Ensure that excavations do not accidentally collapse
- Prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, a person from being buried or trapped by a fall of material
- Support, so far as is reasonably practicable, the sides, roof or adjacent area to prevent a collapse
- Provide suitable and sufficient equipment to support the excavation
- Work on supports for an excavation only under competent supervision
- Stop any person vehicle or equipment being near to an excavation where it is likely to cause collapse
- Prevent any risk so far as is reasonably practicable, of injury from underground cables or services
- Prevent persons, vehicle or plant, equipment or any accumulation of material falling into the excavation
Use the Excavation Pre-Works Checklist included with Health and Safety Xpert to record inspections of excavations before work commences inside them and any remedial action required. Excavations must be inspected before works commence and also daily during excavation works.
It is important to file these records so that they could be consulted by an inspector if necessary.