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What it requires
plan the work, locate and identify buried services, excavate safely.
The instrument itself: https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg47.htm. The summary above is our plain-English reading, not the text of the instrument — always work from the source.
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The 64 documents that cite it
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Core permits
Demolition and strip-out quality checklists
- Pre-Strip Survey and Services Isolation — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Salvage, Retained Items and Protection — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Strip-Out Complete — Area Handover — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Structural Protection and Propping in Place — Quality Inspection Checklist
External Works & Landscaping RAMS
- Car Park Surfacing and Line Marking
- Fencing and Hoarding Erection
- Soft Landscaping and Planting
- Street Furniture and Signage Installation
- Tree Works Interface
External Works & Landscaping topic RAMS
External works and landscaping quality checklists
- Asphalt and Macadam Surfacing — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Car Park and Road Line Marking — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Fencing, Gates and Barriers — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Ironwork in Paved Surfaces — Covers, Gullies, Frames and Levels — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Kerbs, Edgings and Sub-Base — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Lighting Columns, Feeder Pillars and External Ducts — Foundations, Ducts and Alignment — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Paving, Tactiles and Accessible Gradients — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Playground and Sports Surfaces and Markings — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Resin-Bound and Resin-Bonded Surfacing — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Soft Landscaping — Soils, Planting, Tree Pits and Irrigation — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Street Furniture, Bollards, Cycle Stands and Signs — Foundations and Fixing — Quality Inspection Checklist
Groundworks & Civils RAMS
- Compaction, Hardcore and Sub-Bases
- Drainage Installation and Connections
- Excavation and Trenching
- Foundations and Pile Caps
- Kerbing, Paving and Slabbing
- Reduced-Dig and Contaminated Ground
- Service Trenches and Ducting
Groundworks & Civils topic RAMS
Groundworks and civils quality checklists
- Backfill and Compaction — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Below-Ground Drainage — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Below-Ground Services and Ducts — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Drainage Testing and CCTV — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Excavation and Formation — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Foundations — Trench and Pad — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Ground Gas and Radon Protection — Membrane, Venting and Verification — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Ground-Floor Slab and DPM — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Interceptors, Separators, Pumping Stations and Below-Ground Tanks — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Manholes and Inspection Chambers — Bases, Benching, Rings, Steps and Covers — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Setting Out and Levels — Quality Inspection Checklist
- SuDS — Attenuation Tanks, Crates, Soakaways and Permeable Sub-Base — Quality Inspection Checklist
Lifting operations
Lightning Protection & Signage RAMS
- Lightning Protection Installation and Testing
- Sign Installation — Illuminated
- Sign Installation — Non-Illuminated
Piling & Substructure RAMS
- Bored and CFA Piling
- Dewatering and Groundwater Control
- Driven and Preformed Piling
- Retaining Structures and Ground Anchors
- Underpinning
Piling and substructure quality checklists
- Pile Caps and Ground Beams — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Pile Cut-Off and Integrity Testing — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Pile Installation Record — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Pile Setting Out and Working Platform — Quality Inspection Checklist
- Underpinning — Quality Inspection Checklist