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Watch Tower · For owners, superintendents and equipment managers at excavation and civil sitework firms
Watch Tower for excavation and sitework contractors
The goal: Keep heavy equipment working instead of waiting, finish earthwork on schedule and keep every trench safe.
Open the free demo A fictional company in your industry, opened in the Console. No card needed.
Four jobs we set up with you
Work trackerA work tracker for excavation and sitework contractorsEvery action behind a goal as a card with an owner, a due date and the asset it touches.Read more Asset register and mapAn asset register and map for excavation and sitework contractorsEvery site, vehicle and machine in one register, on one map of the United States.Read more Goals and KPIsGoals and KPIs for excavation and sitework contractors, with the assumptions written downThree to five goals, one KPI each, with the record, the period and the assumptions behind every number.Read more Weekly briefA weekly operations brief for excavation and sitework contractorsGoals, KPIs with their assumptions, options with guardrails and a 30-day agenda, reviewed with you every week.Read more
Rules and facts for excavation and sitework contractors
- Employees in an excavation must be protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system, except in excavations made entirely in stable rock or less than five feet deep where a competent person finds no sign of a potential cave-in.Source: 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1), Protection of employees in excavations
- A competent person must inspect excavations, the adjacent areas and protective systems daily, before the start of work and as needed during the shift.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1), Specific excavation requirements
- Trench excavations four feet or more deep must have a stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress within 25 feet of lateral travel.Source: 29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2), Specific excavation requirements
Founding 10
$2,000 for setup and the first 3 months of Watch Tower, then $250/month. Ten places. We set up your team, goals and KPIs, asset register, map and work tracker with you, then review it with you every week.
Hardware implementation is quoted separately. Start with the demo; you can order from inside it.Open the free demoDo the machines need telematics for this?
No. Hour meter readings and daily logs are enough to start. If your machines already export telematics, we can read the export too.