Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Any kind of excavation work can be dangerous


One of the most dangerous things that any construction worker can do is to dig down into the ground without there first having been a complete and thorough survey of the area by a competent surveyor using the very latest technology.

The simple fact is that – wherever you live – there is any number of services that supply your home, your office, your local high street, and in fact any building that requires electricity, water, sewage pipes, and more. Certainly, there may be a few barns out in the country that contains cows or pigs and doesn’t require those facilities, but most of us do.




In a nutshell, what that means is that underground cables, water pipes, gas pipes, sewage pipes, telecoms, and more, can be – and indeed are likely to be – almost anywhere.

All of which means that, if you work for a contractor as a groundworker, you need to be confident that the area where you are going to dig is free from underground services. Or more than likely, if it isn’t, you know exactly where they run and that you won’t actually strike them when you commence operations because they are six feet over to the left, or whatever it happens to be.

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