Hazard report form for civil and roadworks crews

What goes wrong in civil construction

Roadworks and pipelines run along a corridor, and the hazard moves with the machine. A report that says “the trench” is useless on a four-kilometre job. Civil crews also work next to live traffic, so the form leans on location and layout more than any other trade’s does.

• Cars cutting through or clipping the edge of the traffic layout
• Buried services hit while digging, or found where the plans said none
• Trench walls and batters that slumped after overnight rain
• Excavators and trucks reversing near people on foot
• Night works with lighting that leaves shadows at the trench edge
• Spoil heaps stacked too close to an open excavation

Fields that earn their place on a civil construction form

Out on a corridor, “near the culvert” gets you nowhere. These fields let someone who wasn’t there walk straight to the spot.

• Chainage or kilometre marker, and the side of the road
• Traffic management plan version in place and who set the layout out
• Services located before digging, with the Dial Before You Dig reference if used
• Plant ID and the operator on shift
• Rain or wind in the last 24 hours
• Shoring, batter or bench condition at the time

On paper and by voice

It’s 4am at chainage 2+400. Overnight rain has slumped the batter beside the open trench, and the ute’s parked a kilometre back with no coverage. On paper it goes in the diary and gets read tomorrow. By voice you describe the slump and take a photo with the pegs in it. The report waits on the phone until you drive back into range.

Where Haznote fits

Haznote queues the report on the phone and sends it when there’s signal again, so the photo and GPS point arrive together. The manager can see where on the job it sits and confirms the priority. The AI’s draft is stored apart from the manager’s version.