Safety Guidance - Classification of Potentially Contaminated Sites for Intrusive Investigation Activities
Published March 2024. This version replaces ‘Comment on the approach for classifying sites into green, yellow or red’ published in 2022. This…
The Safety Working Group’s aims are to promote safety awareness for the geotechnical and geoenvironmental industry.
The Safety Working Group aims to provide guidance and links to relevant documents via this web page.
We produce regular updates throughout the year and all guidance documents are downloadable to make them as accessible as possible.
We aim to provide generic guidance to inform practice – it should be noted that for every site a specific risk assessment must be made to assess the actual site hazards present and how they can be addressed to minimise risks to people and property.
Published March 2024. This version replaces ‘Comment on the approach for classifying sites into green, yellow or red’ published in 2022. This…
Published February 2024 Safety share regarding Young Site Engineer killed by Excavator.
Published January 2024 Works which involve or encounter asbestos fall under the requirements of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR 2012).…
Published January 2024. This version replaces Guidance on Occupational Stress (Published 2020) and Guidance on Health and Wellbeing at Work (Published 2021).…
Published January 2024. This version replaces Guidance on Training and Competence published in 2020. Competence is not solely training and is definitely…
Published January 2024 This version replaces ‘Guidance for Health Management with Noise’ published in 2015. In the geotechnical and geo-environmental sector noisy…
Image provided by AECOM The industries expectations to all health, safety and wellbeing requirements have changed through the years, as we understand…
The AGS is holding a sustainability-themed poster competition at this year’s Annual Conference, and we’d like to see how Early Career Professionals…
Vacuum excavation[1] is widely used in the ground investigation industry as a means of excavating inspection holes and trenches to check for…
Introduction For engineering geologists in the UK ground investigation industry, the opening of core and dynamic sampler liners to enable the logging…
Within the wider construction industry, the geotechnical & geoenvironmental industry has been criticised, sometimes for good reason, for a poor safety record.…
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) requires industry bodies, such as the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS) and British Drilling…