Archaeology
Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of workers is key. Within Archaeology works, a wide range of activities are carried out which are heavily labour intensive with large numbers of people working on site carrying out site walkovers to large scale excavations involving major groundworks. Of particular concern within Archaeology are; rigorous manual handling with potential to cause musculo skeletal disorders, inappropriate specification of PPE, utilities, ground conditions, contaminated sites, excavations, work at height and unexploded ordnance. Archaeology works requires entry into excavations and direct contact with soil/ground materials. Therefore, it is important that we ensure health safety and wellbeing is integral to all works carried out and sustained. In 2019/2020, 4 Riddors and 133 Near misses were recorded across the FAME community (Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers – across 92 respondents employed 2386 FTE positions).
Common Intent Document
Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of workers is key. Within Archaeology works, a wide range of activities are carried out which are heavily labour intensive with large numbers of people working on site carrying out site walkovers to large scale excavations involving major groundworks. Of particular concern within Archaeology are; rigorous manual handling with potential to cause musculo skeletal disorders, inappropriate specification of PPE, utilities, ground conditions, contaminated sites, excavations, work at height and unexploded ordnance. Archaeology works requires entry into excavations and direct contact with soil/ground materials. Therefore, it is important that we ensure health safety and wellbeing is integral to all works carried out and sustained. In 2019/2020, 4 Riddors and 133 Near misses were recorded across the FAME community (Federation of Archaeological Managers and Employers – across 92 respondents employed 2386 FTE positions).
Common Intent Document
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