6005 Safe Trenching, Excavation and Ground Disturbance (1 day)

Description: This one-day course is designed for those individuals who are planning, supervising or doing the work. Safety of the workforce is the primary goal.

Course Objectives:
To supply quality education and advice to operators, supervisors and management in helping to plan for safe trenching and excavating where worker entry is required.

Course Content:

• Ground Disturbances
• Call Before you Dig -- Guidelines for Safe Excavations
• Legislation -- Due Diligence and how it affects you
• Soil Terminology/Classifications
• Hazard Assessements and Controls
• Overhead Power lines -- construction safe limits
• Confined Space Entry and Code of Practice
• Crossing Agreements
• Shoring systems
• Enviromental protection
• Emergency response planning
  

Summary:
After completing the course, you should be able to:

• Recognize the hazards associated with trenching and excavating and how to control them by Administrative, Engineering or personal protective measures
• Know how to contact Alberta One Call and other Utility line owners for locates
• Be able to refer to the applicable legislation regarding trenching and excavating
• Know what type of protective structure (shoring) will work to protect your workers
• Know how to determine if the excavation/trench is a confined space and what precautions to take
• Be able to recognize soil changes in trenches/excavation
  

Safety in trenching and excavating can be accomplished with proper hazard assessment and control, planning and by communicating to workers the hazards associated with the work to be undertaken

Prerequisites: None