Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for on-site operations
- Identify the job, location, appropriate procedures and safety requirements
- Identify site hazards and use appropriate personal protective equipment and safety procedures as specified for job and materials to be used
- Record description of the job to be undertaken, compare with specification and report any variations
- Select and prepare tools, equipment and materials in accordance with job requirements
- Select suitable transport for site access
- Ensure site access requirements, such as entry permits and safety inductions have been organised
- Assist with excavation of boreholes, test pits and/or trenches
- Identify the sampling/testing location
- Excavate or supervise excavation to the sampling/ testing depth, minimising disturbance and potential contamination of the site
- Identify materials and record changes of strata, test results, and other relevant information
- Ensure materials from different strata are kept separate
- Terminate the excavation at the appropriate depth, recording the reason for termination
- Clean up on completion, backfilling or sealing the excavation or ensuring that it is left in a safe and uncontaminated condition
- Assist with sampling
- Prepare sampling equipment and materials
- Take disturbed and undisturbed samples in accordance with established practices
- Label samples and record details in accordance with established practices
- Handle and transport samples in accordance with established practices
- Clean and maintain sampling equipment, avoiding environmental damage, including stormwater contamination
- Assist with testing
- Maintain records