Guidance

Health and safety for major road schemes: service avoidance

Part of Highways England's 'Raising the bar' health and safety initiative to identify best practice, raise standards and improve supply chain engagement.

• From: Highways England
• Published: 1 July 2013
• Last updated: 5 July 2018 — See all updates

Documents

Raising The Bar 9 – Service Avoidance (June 2018)

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Best practice guidance for excavating. This aims to prevent service strikes and risk of harm when excavating on construction sites.

This document forms part of Highways England’s ‘Raising the bar’ health and safety initiative.

Published 1 July 2013
Last updated 5 July 2018 + show all updates

1. 5 July 2018

   Replaced with updated document

2. 29 June 2018

   Replaced existing document with updated version (June 2018)

3. 26 January 2015

   New version of this document has been added.

4. 1 July 2013

   First published.