Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare
- 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 traffic control 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
- Install trench shoring
- Communicate with plant operator to ensure the excavation of trenches complies with site plan, line and depth
- Determine and prepare shoring method
- Set out positioning of shoring
- Position or erect shoring within the trench
- Secure shoring in position and check to ensure structural conformity with regulations
- Clean out excavation out by hand to job requirements
- Provide ladders for access and egress to site safety plan requirements
- Remove trench shoring
- Clean up