Every day in the UK there are over 12,000 street works taking place, virtually all of which involve digging to some depth, and some of these result in striking underground services of one sort or another.
The reasons for striking underground services can be many, but overall, the main reason is insufficient knowledge of the likelihood of services being present at a site before any work was commenced. This is partly due to there being little or no record of underground services at a site and partly due to lack of a thorough survey of the site before work began.
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When carrying out any sort of construction work that involves an excavation, it is essential to conduct a thorough survey of the site before commencing work.
Certainly, the first thing to do is to obtain plans or other suitable information about all underground services in the area in which you are going to work. That means that you need to contact the owners and operators wherever possible, and also remember that some services may have more than one owner or operator.
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One of the biggest issues that construction workers can suffer from is that of striking underground services in the course of a project. If you are constructing anything much larger than a garden shed which can sit on the ground surface, then it will involve digging in order to install the foundations. If you are a worker who works for a utility, then you have to dig in order to lay pipes and cables or repair or restore old ones or replace them with new. Practically every sort of construction project begins with digging.
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HSG47 is the guidebook produced by the Health & Safety Executive concerning the safe working practices that are needed when undertaking any form of excavation. The current edition is the third one and was updated in 2014.
The HSE has a Code of Practice which states that the aim of the Code is to improve the level of safety with which excavation work is carried out. In particular, the purpose is to avoid damage to underground services which will, in turn, minimise any danger to those carrying out such work. It “is intended to provide practical guidance to utility/service providers, clients, designers, planners, project supervisors (both design process and construction stage), contractors, safety representatives, and any personnel who are involved in work where there is a risk from underground services.”
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