Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for work
- Access, interpret and apply compliance documentation relevant to the work activity
- Obtain and confirm safety requirements from the site safety plan and organisational policies and procedures, and apply to the allotted task
- Identify, obtain and implement signage requirements from the project traffic management plan
- Select plant, tools and equipment to carry out tasks consistent with the requirements of the job, check for serviceability and rectify or report any faults
- Identify environmental protection requirements from the project environmental management plan, and confirm and apply to the allotted task
- Dig small excavations by hand
- Confirm the location and specifications of the intended excavation on the ground before commencing work
- Identify service markers or taped areas
- Determine or confirm location of underground services to avoid damage or interference
- Use hand tools correctly to dig post holes, small pits and trenches safely and to the required dimensions
- Undertake trench collapse prevention procedures, where excavation is in unstable ground
- Place barricades around the excavation
- Complete and isolate the excavation
- Clean up