• Contact with underground services
• Contact with overhead lines
• Collapse of the excavations sides
• Materials falling onto people working in the excavation
• People & vehicles falling into the excavation
• People being struck by plant & equipment
• Undermining of nearby structures
• Ground water
• Soil
• Access to the excavation
• Fumes
• Accidents to members of the public

• Excavation works on a road, footpath or cycletrack must be supervised by a competent person who has been issued with a valid construction skills registration card for the guarding, lighting and signing of roadworks
• People working in excavations should be given clear instructions, through training, on how to work safely

• All excavations must be inspected by a competent person at least once in every day during which persons are at work in the excavations
• Every excavations more than 2 metres deep must be inspected by a competent person at the commencement of every shift
• A thorough examination of the excavation must be carried out at least every 7 days (Details placed on AF3 form)

The following is a checklist of actions that Ashview Consultants can provide when carrying out excavation work:

• A risk assessment must be completed, identifying all the hazards associated with the works
• A safe system of work plan must be competed & communicated to the work force
• Supervision of works
• Inspection & examination & completion of periodic inspection AF3