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Health and Safety Plan <br /> 1319 & 1327 South Madison Street, Stockton,CA <br /> 432770 <br /> A E I <br /> Consultants <br /> 1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> Underground utility identification and clearance is critical to every site on which AEI investigates, <br /> drills at,or does any underground excavating construction for these reasons: <br /> 1. Knowledge of underground line location is vital for safe operations. <br /> 2. Many states have laws that require all excavators,contractors,and other parties to notify <br /> utility companies before beginning excavation on public property. <br /> 3. The prior location of these lines by the utility companies and utility locating specifically <br /> reduces AEI's liability should lines be mis-located and damaged during drilling or <br /> excavation. <br /> 2.0 POLICY <br /> All field staff are required to follow AEI's Subsurface Clearance Policy for drilling and excavating <br /> activities. AEI's policy for subsurface clearance is listed for different sites in the AEI Borehole <br /> Clearance Policy Chart(Table 1). The borehole clearance methods are detailed in Section 3.4. <br /> In addition,the following apply to drilling at all sites: <br /> • Project Kick-Off Meeting(Section 3.1) <br /> • Permits(if necessary),access agreements(if necessary),and notification(Section 3.2) <br /> • Health and Safety Plan(Section 3.3) <br /> Ultimately no subsurface excavations,drilling,trenching or other subsurface intrusive work should <br /> be undertaken by an AEI employee without strict adherence to this policy. Effectively, the <br /> employee managing the subsurface utility locates for a project must ensure that every effort has <br /> been made as specified in this protocol to locate and avoid utilities. If there is any remaining <br /> uncertainty regarding the utility locations the employee should not proceed with the work, and <br /> must then involve AEI's Site Mitigation Division Leader,AEI's Director of Risk Management and <br /> Corporate H&S Director to resolve the remaining uncertainties before work can commence. <br /> 2.1 Restricted Areas <br /> Restricted areas are those areas where work would likely result in a utility strike and should be <br /> identified in the field by onsite field personal. In order to assist our staff, the below areas are <br /> included as restricted areas.Other restricted areas may exist in the field and field personal should <br /> discuss the field scenario with management. Borings are NOT to be advanced in these areas: <br /> Specific to Underground Storage Tanks <br /> • Within 10 feet from the top of an active underground storage tank(UST)or inactive UST <br /> > 2,000 gallons(Figure 1) <br /> • Within 10 feet from the edge of a dispenser(Figure 1) <br /> • Within 5 feet from the edge of a dispenser canopy(Figure 1) <br />