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Safety Focus of the Week: Driving Sheet Piling
Our work sometimes involves driving and extracting steel sheet piling with our vibrator hammers. This work involves special safety considerations and planning:
- Crane Operations:
- Lift Capacity at required radii
- Duty Cycle considerations (duty cycle crane or reduced crane chart)
- Rigging types (shackles, cable slings, ground release shackle, etc.)
- Crane Hazards (OH Electric, Firm Ground, etc.)
- Crane Signals
- Planning:
- Crane Position & Reach
- Support Equipment (vibro, power pack/hoses, manlift, etc.)
- Material Staging (sheeting handling)
- Operations:
- Overhead hazards (falling material)
- Sheeting fatigue at jaw grip (sudden release of energy)
- Extraction Forces (high potential energy condition)
