Excavation Safety Workshop
The Excavation Safety workshop explains the hazards of excavation and trenching, how accidents happen, and how worker protective measures should be applied. The course covers the requirements of 29 CFR Part 1926, Subpart P-Excavations, of the OSHA standards for the construction industry.
Who should attend?
- All crew members who are involved in excavation will find this workshop beneficial.
- Supervisors responsible for trenching operations, foremen, safety coordinators, and backhoe, dragline, and excavator operators are especially encouraged to attend.
- City/County engineers or administrators who are responsible for employee safety and have trenching and excavation work done in their jurisdiction will also find the material in this course valuable.
Workshop schedule
8:00 Registration
8:30
- Welcome & Introduction to Excavation Safety
- Seminar Objectives & Book
- Mechanics of a Cave-In
- Overview of the Standard
- Excavation Hazards & Statistics
- Responsibility of the Supervisor
12:00 Lunch (provided)
1:00
- Soil Classification - Appendix A: Summary & Decision Charts
- Cave-In Response
- Selecting a Worker Protection System
- Appendix B, Sloping
- Appendix C, Wood Shoring
- Appendix D, AL Hydraulics
- Manufacture's Tab Data
- Registered Professional Engineer
- Confined Space Safety
- Digging Dangers
4:00 Adjourn
Instructor
Jack Mickle is professor emeritus of civil engineering at Iowa State University. He served three terms on the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health to the Assistant US Secretary of Labor (OSHA). He worked with the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, for 15 years and with OSHA as a soil experty to develop OSHA's 29 CFR; Part 1926, Subpart P-Excavations.
Mickle is a member of the American National Standards Institute Committee A10: Safety Requirements for Construction and Demolition Operations, and he is chair of subgroup A10.12-Excavations, which recently completed a new excavation standard for ANSI.
Dates and locations
Check the calendar for current dates and locations.
Registration and fees
Registration for 2006 is FULL.
The registration fee for this program is $100 per person. The fee includes lunch, breaks, and course manual.
Questions?
If you have questions about
- content of the class, contact Tom McDonald, safety circuit rider, 515-294-6384, tmcdonal@iastate.edu.
- registration, contact Georgia Parham, 515-294-2267, gparham@iastate.edu
