Precautionary Factors That You Need To Consider Before Excavation Services

Excavation is, quite naturally, not everybody’s cup of tea and there is no price for guessing that you need to hire seasoned pros for an excavation project, regardless of its nature, scale, and objectives.

When it comes to excavating, the professionals would take a number of factors into considerations, to ensure safety and security.

The depth of excavation

This is the most important factor that the pros take into account while gauging the precautionary measures. The reason is obvious! The extent of precautionary measures to be taken and the factors to be considered are directly dependent on the depth of excavation. When the excavation is too deep, factors like saving the underground utilities, checking the issue of soil cave-ins, and water accumulation and the likes will come into play.  That is the reason, whenever you hire a company that is into professional excavation services in Boxhill, they would at first take into account the depth of the excavation needed, before anything else.

Protection against the cave-in and collapse of trenches

Now let us look into the deeper excavations. As mentioned earlier, the moment you excavate deeper, you need to take into consideration a string of issues.  The most crucial amongst them are the cave-in and trench collapse.

Soil Cave in If deeper excavation is carried out without thoroughly checking the soil quality and condition, there is a serious chance of soil cave-ins, resulting in a major disaster that may at times be life-threatening for those working in the project.

Trench Collapse: Again, in case of deeper excavations, the pros might need to dig up and erect trenches for operational benefits. Again, a lackluster approach without any soil testing might result in the collapse of these trenches that may damage the heavy tools and machinery and leave people seriously injured.

Protection against Encumbrances

It is the responsibility of the professionals carrying out excavation services in Campbelltown to take adequate protection against every equipment and supplies and materials, permanent installations like buildings and roadways, trees and sidewalks, boulders, and so on, before the commencement of the excavation. If they pose any hazard or hindrance to the work, they must either be removed adequately. If that is not possible, then an adequate alternative method needs to be taken. It is the responsibility of these pros to find the other way out.

Protection against Underground installations

This is another pertinent hazard that the excavators have to take guard against.  They must take guard against the underground utilities like underground telecom installations, gas and water pipelines, internet and electricity cables and the likes.

So you see these are the precautions that excavators need to take on a broad scale before carrying out their work. There are other more intricate issues though, but we will discuss them in our subsequent blogs!