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Contractor and director fined after flouting prohibition notices

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  1. Excavation in construction trade, must be dealt with as serious issues; apart from the noncompliance fined, D & S Building Solutions should be enforced to take continuing professional unit courses on excavation so as to buttress training of employees. Furthermore, D&S must in future, designate a competent person trained in soil classification and the recognition of trenching and excavation hazards. This person must be on-site when excavating or trenching is being done. D & S Building Solutions shall be made to prepare appropriate documentation to meet the HSE trenching and excavation standards to be maintained on site for adequate HSE inspections. D & S must learn from previous violations that prior to opening any excavation or trench, an excavation inspection form must be formalized by the company to show safety gestures, also inclusive of excavation permits required on a daily basis while the excavation is open. Protections of workers and public at-large is of paramount. if an excavation will remain open longer than one work shift, a barrier sufficient to protect people from falling into the excavation or erected at a minimum of 183cm from the excavation in order to warn passers-by

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