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HEQ 210
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Title: | Heavy Equip Basic Pipelaying |
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Long Title: | Heavy Equipment Basic Pipelaying |
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Course Description: | Examines methods for preparing the trench for pipe installation, including stabilization, bedding, and initial backfill soil behavior as they relate to trench failures, including common indications of an unstable trench. Introduces typical shoring, shielding, and sloping methods appropriate equipment use and elevations as they relate to the setup of these instruments. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Demonstrate safety precautions for working in and around confined spaces and trenches.
2. Describe and demonstrate proper use and techniques of a laser level and transit to identify elevation.
3. Prepare a trench for pipe installation through stabilization, bedding, and initial backfill.
4. Describe effective methods, equipment, safety and hazards associated with dewatering a trench.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Job site safety.
II. Purpose of the laser, level, and transit and setup and use of the laser.
III. Methods for accurately holding and reading the level rod and proper care and maintenance of the laser, level, and transit.
IV. Basic elevations.
V. Safety precautions for working in and around a trench; trench safety systems: shoring, sloping, shielding; and proper placement and use of ladders in the trench.
VI. Hazards associated with spoil piles and indications of an unstable trench
VII. Conditions that make a trench a Confined Space and dangers associated with entering Confined Space structures such as manholes, trenches, pipes, and tunnels.
VIII. Stabilization and bedding; types of bedding materials; and determining the amount of bedding required.
IX. Laying bedding material.
X. Dewatering a trench.
XI. EPA requirements concerning water discharge quality.
XII. Method for breaking pump suction.
XIII. Routine maintenance requirements for dewatering equipment and personal safety and environmental hazards associated with dewatering equipment.
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