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Excavation. As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and your workplace safe from the risks of excavation. Excavation work means work to make an excavation or to fill, or partly fill, an excavation. Excavation work includes the removal of soil or rock from a site to form an open face, hole or cavity.
May 10, 2024 · Working in trenches and excavations is hazardous to both the workers who work inside them, and to workers on the surface. The hazards include: Cave-ins or collapses that can trap or crush workers. Equipment or excavated soil falling on workers (e.g., equipment is operated or soil and debris is stored too close to the excavation).
The guidance in this Code is relevant to excavation contractors as well as persons conducting a business or undertaking who have management or control of workplaces where excavation work is carried out, such as principal contractors. Persons who have duties in relation to excavation work should also refer to the Code of Practice: Construction Work.
This Code of Practice for managing health and safety risks associated with excavation work is an approved code of practice under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act (the WHS Act). An approved code of practice is a practical guide to achieving the standards of health, safety and welfare required under the WHS Act and the Work Health ...
Excavation work. Excavation work means work to make an excavation or to fill, or partly fill, an excavation. Excavation work includes the removal of soil or rock from a site to form an open face, hole or cavity. This includes trenches, shafts and tunnels. Excavation work can involve: demolition, asbestos removal, explosives and/or high-risk ...
This model Code of Practice provides guidance on managing risks associated with excavation work. This Code applies to all types of excavation work, including: bulk excavations more than 1.5 metres deep trenches shafts tunnels. Excavation collapses are dangerous. They can happen quickly, making it difficult for workers and others to escape.
The model Code of Practice: Excavation work has been amended since its publication in March 2015, including a number of amendments agreed to in 2018 as part of a technical and usability review of the model Code. The current version, dated October 2018, incorporates all of those amendments.
Nov 30, 2023 · Tragically, 200 workers were fatally injured at work in 2023, compared to 195 in 2022, according to Safe Work Australia’s Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2024. The annual publication provides a snapshot of work health and safety in Australia through analysis of national data on work-related fatalities, injuries and disease.
The interactive SWMS tool provides information on how to prepare and use a SWMS in the workplace if you are a: PCBU. person responsible for preparing and using a SWMS for high risk construction work. small business that has to prepare their own SWMS, or. new to the construction industry. High risk construction work:
Excavation work means work to make an excavation or to fill or partly fill an excavation. Excavation work commonly includes work involving the removal of soil or rock from a site to form an open face, hole or cavity, including trenches, shafts and tunnels. Excavation work is generally carried out using tools, machinery or explosives ...
