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    The document outlines procedures and responsibilities for excavation work to ensure safety. It defines excavation and related terms. The key responsibilities include the permit issuer ensuring safety before permits are granted, the permit applicant notifying authorities and preparing risk assessments, and the worksite supervisor barricading the site and checking safety measures. Asset owners and HSE teams also have oversight roles to advise on safety compliance and underground services. Hazards of excavation mentioned are cave-ins, buried workers, underground obstructions, falls, machinery strikes, and gas/electrical/drowning dangers.

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    The document outlines procedures and responsibilities for excavation work to ensure safety. It defines excavation and related terms. The key responsibilities include the permit issuer ensuring safety before permits are granted, the permit applicant notifying authorities and preparing risk assessments, and the worksite supervisor barricading the site and checking safety measures. Asset owners and HSE teams also have oversight roles to advise on safety compliance and underground services. Hazards of excavation mentioned are cave-ins, buried workers, underground obstructions, falls, machinery strikes, and gas/electrical/drowning dangers.

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    The document outlines procedures and responsibilities for excavation work to ensure safety. It defines excavation and related terms. The key responsibilities include the permit issuer ensuring safety before permits are granted, the permit applicant notifying authorities and preparing risk assessments, and the worksite supervisor barricading the site and checking safety measures. Asset owners and HSE teams also have oversight roles to advise on safety compliance and underground services. Hazards of excavation mentioned are cave-ins, buried workers, underground obstructions, falls, machinery strikes, and gas/electrical/drowning dangers.

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    The document outlines procedures and responsibilities for excavation work to ensure safety. It defines excavation and related terms. The key responsibilities include the permit issuer ensuring safety before permits are granted, the permit applicant notifying authorities and preparing risk assessments, and the worksite supervisor barricading the site and checking safety measures. Asset owners and HSE teams also have oversight roles to advise on safety compliance and underground services. Hazards of excavation mentioned are cave-ins, buried workers, underground obstructions, falls, machinery strikes, and gas/electrical/drowning dangers.

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    1.

    0 Purpose / Scope
    The purpose of this procedure is to establish the precautions and conditions considered necessary for safety
    of the personnel involved in excavation work as well as integrity of above / underground services &/or
    facilities where such excavation work shall be carried out.
    2.0 Definitions
    Backfilling: It is an activity to fill-in (with soil) a trench that is no longer needed and returning the area
    around its original condition.
    Benching: It is also one of the measures to prevent cave – ins by cutting trench sidewalls to form one
    or more steps.
    Cave - ins: It is collapse of the trench side walls due to weight of the adjacent soil. A cave – in can
    drop several cubic meters of soils on trench worker.
    Excavation: Excavation is a man made cut, cavity, trench or depression in an earth surface or sub-
    surface, formed by earth removal.
    Excavation Notification: Excavation Notification is a document to notify concerned authorities, who
    have responsibility and jurisdiction for safety & integrity of aboveground and / or underground
    services existing at the proposed site of excavation.
    Good Soil: Cohesive soil with an unconfined compressive strength of 1.5 tons per square foot (144
    kPa) or greater.
    Manual Excavation: The excavation without using any powered equipment or excavating machinery
    such as backhoe, loader, Jack Hammer etc.
    Mechanical Excavation: The excavation work using powered equipment or excavating machinery such
    backhoe, loader, Jack Hammer etc.
    Medium Soil: Cohesive soil with an unconfined compressive strength greater than 0.5 tons per square
    foot (48 kPa) but less than 1.5 tons per square foot (144 kPa).
    Metal Detector: It is a device to screen the excavation area to mitigate the risk of damaging unknown
    pipelines, cables and utilities.
    Poor Soil: Cohesive soil with an unconfined compressive strength of 0.5 tons per square foot (48 kPa)
    or less.
    Shoring: Shoring involves the use of engineering structures (such as cross braces, vertical & / or
    horizontal rail, polling boards etc.) to support a trench side walls.
    Sloping: Sloping is angling the sides of an excavation to prevent cave – ins.
    3/0 Key Responsibilities
    3.1 Permit Issuer
     Ensure safety & integrity of the worksite prior to issuance of appropriate permits (Cold Work
    Permit for Manual Excavation and Hot Work Permit for Mechanical Excavation) and related
    Job Safety analyses (JSAs) for safe work execution.
     Ensure that the Excavation Notification had been filled up and signed by all concerned Teams
    representatives by verifying the drawings.
     Ensures that all mobile equipment used at worksites possess valid clearance certificates for
    “Mobile Equipment”.
     Check the site for restoring to original conditions before closing the work permit and
    excavation notification.
     Inform Fire Team if the excavated area may cause obstructions to the main access to the
    facility and major operational areas such as Storage Tanks without alternate routes.
    3.2 Permit Applicant / Initiator of Excavation Notification
     Initiate Excavation Notification informing concerned authorities, who have responsibility and
    jurisdiction for safety & integrity of aboveground and / or underground services existing at
    the proposed site of excavation.
     Enclose drawings & sketches (with the Excavation Notification) marking the proposed site of
    excavation.
     Identify the above / underground services (such as pipelines, cables, sewage, flume, tunnel
    etc.) before excavating the area without damage to those services.
     Obtain necessary Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) clearance certificates for “Handling of
    Explosive Materials, Substance and EOD”.
     Ensure risk assessment and mitigation of potential hazards associated with proposed
    excavation work as part of Job Safety Analysis (JSA) prior to applying the appropriate work
    permit (Cold Work Permit for Manual Excavation and Hot Work Permit for Mechanical
    Excavation) for carrying out excavation work. Please refer to sub-sections 5.1 & 5.2 of this
    procedure for additional information.
     Ensures that all necessary materials used for cave-in protection & isolation (like hard
    barricades, warning signs & flash lights) of the excavated trench/area are available at worksite
    before commencement of the excavation.
     Ensure that earthworks are not commenced until the Permit Issuer approves the methods of
    excavation, the means of support to sides of excavation, the safety and support of
    neighbouring private and public property, the system of dewatering, the demolition of
    existing surface and underground structures and obstacles, moving of any existing services,
    pipes, culverts and the like on the side or affecting the works.
     Ensure that the excavation is compacted and backfilled after the work is over.

    4.3 Worksite Supervisor


     Must not excavate without a valid excavation notification & authorized work permit.
     Ensure safety & suitability of the equipment & materials to be used for excavation.
     Conduct Tool Box Talk briefing the workers on potential hazards and precautionary measures
    to be taken during excavation activities.
     Verify the existence of above / underground services before excavating the area.
     Barricade the site of excavation along with the reflective warning notices, signs and flashing
    lights to alert the people approaching worksite.
     Ensure that job information is posted on each excavated area for traceability purpose:
    Contract Number, Contract Title, Superintendent of the Contract, Controlling Team, number
    of work permit and excavation notification, contact numbers in case of emergency, etc.
     Check the excavation safeguards (such as shoring, sloping & supporting system) daily before
    starting the job & after every rain storm or other hazardous occurrence.
     Fill the excavation checklist (Refer to Appendix 1) ensuring safety & integrity of the worksite.
     Take all necessary steps to protect any existing services, drains, water and gas mains, power
    and telephone cables and the like endangered by excavations and/or slips and falls, and shall
    affect all necessary repairs. If any such utilities are encountered, the pipes, cables, etc., shall
    be protected as directed by the Permit Applicant or Asset Owner for Above / Underground
    Services.
     Separate the excavated soil into those suitable for fill and those unsuitable for backfill.
     Remove the materials unsuitable for backfill shall, as soon as practicable, preferably
    immediately after excavation and other from the site and legally disposed off.
    4.4 Asset Owners for Above / Underground Services

    The respective asset owner for aboveground / underground services will indicate (in the Excavation
    Notification); the required precautionary measures to be taken preventing any damage to those
    services at the proposed site of excavation.

    Mark in the drawings / sketches attached to the Excavation Notification the locations and depths of
    the services.

    4.5 Asset / Directorate HSE Teams

    Conduct periodical inspection of excavation site to assure the procedural

    compliance.

    Advise the Permit Applicant, Permit Issuer and Worksite Supervisor for corrective

    measures in case discrepancy is noticed at the site of excavation.

    4.6 Fire Team

    Assess the risk and mitigation needed in case of bund wall cutting or excavation

    works that might affect the integrity of the bunded area and its ability to act as a

    secondary containment during storage tank leaks.

    Endorse the Excavation Notification ensuring required control measures against

    the bund wall cutting or excavation work affecting the integrity of the bunded area

    for the storage tank.

    Safety in Excavation

    5.1 Hazards of Excavation

    The following hazards may be encountered while excavating or working inside a trench:

    Cave – ins or collapse of soil / earthwork

    Buried alive under earthwork / collapsed soil

    Underground obstruction or damage to buried pipelines & services

    Accidental fall of personnel or equipment inside a trench

    Struck / hit by excavating machinery

    Dropped / falling objects

    Flammable & / or toxic gas release

    Exposed to airborne contaminants


    Fire & explosion

    Electrical shock due to contact with energized electrical / telecom cable.

    Drowning due to water seepage into trench

    Soil vibration due to machinery / heavy vehicles operations in the vicinity.

    Possible presence of explosive devices

    Lack of Oxygen or asphyxiation

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