Let’s assume your company has an excellent safety program. You’ve been trained and designated as the competent person on project excavation sites. All the workers on your crew have been appropriately trained. You use trench-protection systems on your job sites. You have an emergency plan in place, and so on.
Let’s also assume that another contractor at another site nearby the one you’re working on has taken a few shortcuts. Suddenly, one of that contractor’s workers comes yelling, “A man’s been buried! We need your help! There’s been a cave-in!”
What do you do? Here are some suggestions:
Stay calm.Take charge of the job site until a
Think It Can't Happen to You? How to Respond to a Trench Collapse
Here's a detailed checklist of things you and your crews should do if the unthinkable happens
May 17, 2018
| by David Dow |
