# Ground Works Video Series — Master Research Notes

> **Scope and legal notice:** This 22-module series is a workplace training resource, not formal engineering, legal, environmental, medical, or emergency-response advice. All site-specific excavation design, temporary works release, monitoring trigger values, dewatering discharge, authority submission, utility handover, rescue plans, and emergency medical arrangements must be approved and implemented through the governing project, client, designer, permit, utility-owner, municipality, free-zone, and competent-authority procedures.

## Confirmed catalogue scale

| Item | Confirmed quantity |
|---|---:|
| Separate video modules | 22 |
| Total planned runtime | 462 minutes / 7 hours 42 minutes |
| One-minute narration chunks | 462 |

## UAE regulatory framework to apply conditionally and accurately

The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre Code-of-Practice index states that its codes of practice set **minimum mandatory OSH technical requirements** and that entities must comply where the subject forms part of their undertaking. The current index identifies the following directly relevant codes: CoP 15.0 Electrical Safety; CoP 21.0 Permit to Work Systems; CoP 22.0 Barricading of Hazards; CoP 24.0 Lock-out–Tag-out (Isolation); CoP 29.0 Excavation Work; CoP 34.0 Safe Use of Lifting Equipment and Lifting Accessories; CoP 36.0 Plant and Equipment; CoP 38.0 Concrete Placing Equipment; CoP 39.0 Overhead and Underground Services; CoP 40.0 False Work (Formwork); CoP 43.0 Temporary Structures; CoP 46.0 Underground Construction; CoP 53.0 OSH Management During Construction Work; CoP 53.1 OSH Construction Management Plan; and CoP 54.0 Waste Management.[1]

The UAE workplace-safety guidance describes employer duties to provide a safe and appropriate work environment; prevention measures; instruction, awareness and training; and periodic safety evaluation. It also identifies worker duties to use protection and follow occupational-health-and-safety instructions. It requires establishments to report work injuries and occupational diseases to MoHRE; the page states an employer must notify MoHRE within 48 hours of a workplace injury or death.[2]

## Series-wide technical teaching rules

| Topic | Required training position |
|---|---|
| Excavation design and temporary works | Never teach a numeric slope, support spacing, removal sequence, load, or release criterion as universal. State that the temporary works designer, competent person, TWC and approved design / project procedure govern. |
| Monitoring and trigger levels | Explain Alert–Action–Alarm as a **project-specific, designer-approved trigger action response plan**. Never prescribe percent-of-limit thresholds as a universal rule. |
| Dewatering / groundwater discharge | Treat municipality, environmental agency, utility, drainage-network, free-zone, and client discharge/NOC requirements as jurisdiction- and project-specific. Never name a mandatory authority, discharge route, flow limit, water-quality limit, permit, or NOC without the governing authority document. |
| Utility interfaces | Treat all unverified underground services as potentially live. Require service-owner records, approved permit-to-dig, scanning, physical verification / trial holes where required, exclusion zones, and utility-owner requirements. Do not prescribe clearance distances. |
| Rescue / medical response | Stop work, prevent additional victims, control access, activate the site emergency plan, and follow trained rescue and EMS direction. Never encourage untrained entry into a collapsed, flooded, contaminated, electrically energised, or confined work area. |
| PTW and LOTO | Teach approved isolation / lockout procedures, authorised-person control, verification of the safe state, and documented restart. Do not use generic lock or tag counts, voltage thresholds, or approval roles as universal. |
| Concrete, shoring and strut removal | All release, de-propping, or removal must follow the approved temporary-works sequence and written authorisation by the designated project roles; concrete strength must be verified in accordance with the approved design and testing plan. |
| SIMOPS | Teach interface control, segregated work zones, communication, sequencing, permit coordination, shared emergency routes and audited exclusion zones. Do not use universal colour-zone classifications; apply the project system. |
| Incident reporting and corrective action | Use the site/client/authority reporting procedure. Distinguish source-confirmed MoHRE work-injury/death notification from project-specific near-miss, dangerous-occurrence, authority, utility and incident-investigation deadlines. |

## Source set

[1] Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre, Code of Practices. https://www.adphc.gov.ae/en/Legislation/Code-of-Practices

[2] UAE Government, Health and safety at workplace. https://u.ae/en/information-and-services/jobs/health-and-safety-at-workplace

[3] Module-specific evidence briefs are held in the Site Safety UAE production research set.