Street works certificates

Finding buried services before you break ground: obtaining and reading plans, identifying apparatus by colour and construction, using locating equipment, and the safe digging practices that keep a spade away from a live cable.

Setting out a works site so traffic and pedestrians stay safe: the survey and risk assessment before you start, safety zones and layout, provision for pedestrians and vulnerable users, and the forms of traffic control.

Opening the highway: recognising the road and footway structure you are cutting through, excavation methods, working safely around other apparatus and in high-risk areas, and handling excavated material.

Putting the hole back: choosing backfill materials, surrounding apparatus correctly, compacting in the right layer thicknesses with the right number of passes, and dealing with surplus material.

Non-bituminous sub-base and base reinstatement: preparing the backfill layer beneath, the materials permitted at each level, and laying and compacting them to the SROH.

Modular and concrete footway reinstatement: taking up modules and concrete safely, sub-base and fixed features, bedding, laying and jointing modules, and concrete footways.

Supervising a signed site: checking the survey, monitoring site protection and traffic control, and carrying out site safety inspections.

Supervising an excavation: monitoring the dig, checking that apparatus is protected, checking excavated materials, and inspecting for site safety.

Supervising backfill: checking materials, compaction, layer construction around apparatus, and site safety.

Supervising non-bituminous sub-base and base reinstatement: checking materials, checking layer construction, and site safety inspections.