Excavation Inspection Record
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 Inspection Record printout is available with Health and Safety Xpert Total Toolkit. Click here to view a sample Excavation Inspection Record PDF.
Under the Construction (Design and Management) 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 Inspection Record included with Health & Safety Xpert™ to record inspections of excavations and any remedial action required. Excavations must be inspected before works commence and also daily during excavation works. Additional inspections are required after any event that may have affected the stability of an excavation or after any accidental fall of rock, earth or other material. Work should not commence/continue in an excavation until any remedial action required has been carried out and re-inspected.
It is important to file these records so that they could be consulted by an inspector if necessary.