Water accumulates in an excavation where employees are working. What is the best response?
Correct Answer
D) Control the water hazard before work continues.
Employees should not work in excavations with hazardous water accumulation unless precautions are taken.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Employees should not work in excavations with hazardous water accumulation unless precautions are taken.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Keep working because water proves soil is soft.
Keep working because water proves soil is soft. may relate to another site control, but it does not remove or guard the excavation safety exposure being tested.
Option B: Use water as dust control only.
Use water as dust control only. may relate to another site control, but it does not remove or guard the excavation safety exposure being tested.
Option C: Tell workers to stand on pipe bedding.
Tell workers to stand on pipe bedding. may relate to another site control, but it does not remove or guard the excavation safety exposure being tested.
Memory Technique
If Correcting Trench can still reach the worker, the control is decoration.
Reference Hint
Study anchor (closed-book): memorize Excavation safety from Cal/OSHA Title 8 Construction Safety Orders; CSLB Law and Business. / Title 8 excavation water accumulation requirements; know the rule or calculation trigger without relying on exam-room lookup.
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