UK construction-safety guidance by the Riskora Editorial Team
Pricing or planning groundwork dewatering? The compliance pack is usually the part that holds the job up — not the work itself. Excavation works carry one of the highest fatality rates in UK construction, driven by collapses, service strikes, and falls into open trenches. For groundwork dewatering, the controlling framework is clear: The Environment Agency requires permits for groundwater abstraction above certain volumes. The role of the Method Statement is to make the controls explicit, agreed in advance, and capable of standing up to HSE scrutiny.
Example Method Statement
Method Statement for Groundwork Dewatering — UK
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The Environment Agency requires permits for groundwater abstraction above certain volumes. Discharge of pumped water must comply with environmental permits. The method statement must address both safety and environmental requirements.
On a recent UK project, a contracts manager has a Friday deadline for a Method Statement and is working evenings to get it through review — the kind of pressure most small contractors will recognise. In the Riskora builder they choose the right trade preset, remove the hazards that do not apply, add a couple of site-specific entries from the custom hazard library, and save the finished document for distribution to the team. The finished document explicitly addresses excavation collapse caused by uncontrolled groundwater, which the principal contractor would otherwise expect to see written into the pack.
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