Trench Safety Laws and Regulations

Session Five: Trench Safety Laws and Regulations
A Free Seminar  By
The Office Public Safety & Inspections and Department of Labor Standards

Please send an email, along with each attendees name, license number and email address, to dps.registration@mass.gov if you would like to register for one of the sessions . The training is the same for each session.  It is offered 5 different times for convenience to attendee. Certificates will be emailed for attending this training.

520 CMR 14.00 titled Excavation and Trench Safety Regulations became effective on January 1, 2009.  These important regulations were drafted following an incident in Bridgewater where a young girl perished due to injuries sustained after falling into an unprotected trench.  Jaclyn's Law, as it is known, is named in her memory.  
 
Seminar instructors will examine the main purpose of these regulations, which is to establish procedures and methods to protect members of the general public from incurring similar injury.  In particular, the law and resulting regulation intends to:
 

• Protect the general public from hazards inherent in trenches by requiring, among other things, that all regulated trenches are attended, covered, barricaded, or backfilled; as necessary and
•  Provide penalties for violations. 

• Excavators;
• Building inspectors;
• Engineering inspectors;
• Municipal and state permitting authorities