Trenching & Excavation Safety
Heat Illness Prevention – Spanish
Construction Safety Plan For OHS Compliance
The NAHB Construction Safety & Health Committee is dedicated to helping builders operate safe jobsites, comply with OSHA regulations, and lower workers’ compensation costs through injury prevention.
This excerpt from NAHB Construction Safety & Health’s Trenching & Excavation Safety Video highlights the most common hazards associated with residential trenching and excavation. For Information on the complete video please contact Rob Matuga, AVP NAHB Labor Safety & Health, at [email protected].
Other NAHB Safety & Health video offering, such as Job Site Safety, Fall Protection, and Scaffold Safety, are available at www.builderbooks.com/safety.
All NAHB Safety & Health video productions are available in both Spanish and English.
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It is a Very good video %%☺????
Such a informative video about excavation operation.
excavation and trench | healthsafetyenvironment00
Each year there are many deaths and many injuries resulting in work stoppages, which are directly related to trenching. Fatalities related to trenching are mainly caused by the collapse. Fatalities occur from suffocation or crushing a worker is buried in the ground collapsing. The following are the main causes of injuries resulting in work stoppages related to the digging of trenches:excavation and trench | healthsafetyenvironment00
very good video and its having lots of useful information in it.
There is a lot of great information in this video. I like how they present some common sense safety practices, if only all companies would use them.
a very good video indeed!
nice video!thanks
glaring error in saying methane stays in the trench – it is lighter (lower specific gravity) than air and rises unless there is a cap or confined space with poor ventilation such as a sewer vault); heavier hydrocarbons such as propane are heavier than air and settle in trenches; other than that pretty good
Very well done video. Thank you.
A well done and informative excavation safety video