Construction Health and Safety Manual E7 Excavation (Including June 2015, June 2016 and December 2020 amendments)

Publication Year

2014

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

Considers ordnance, ground conditions, excavation method, basic principles of support, standard or designed solutions, systems of support, trenches, wide and single sided excavations, shafts, headings, permanent works as temporary support, and related safety aspects. Includes three checklists for different contexts of activity and a checklist relating to groundworks method statements.

Document History

This document has now been consolidated into one publication. Volume E, Section 7. Original section publication date - 1996; complete revision in 2012. Was previously known as CSM Section 8B - Excavation. Second edition: Construction health and safety manual published 2014, with amendments issued: June and December 2014, June and December 2015, June and December 2016, June and December 2017, June and December 2018, June and December 2019, June and December 2020 and June 2021. Amendments applicable to this section: June 2015, June 2016 and December 2020.

ISBN

9781852630027

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