OTH S61 GUIDELINES FOR TRENCHING DESIGN OF SUBMARINE PIPELINES Prepared by Trevor Jee Associates for the Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety ExecutiveOTH 561 GUIDELINES FOR TRENCHING DESIGN OF SUBMARINE PIPELINES Prepared by Trevor Jee Associates 26 Camden Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN] 2PT United Kingdom HSE BOOKS Health and Safety Executive - Offshore Technology Report©Crown copyright 1999 Applications for reproduction should be made in writing Copyright Unit, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, St Clements House, 2-16 Cotegate, Norwick NR3 1BQ First published 1999 ISBN 0-7176-2457-9 Alt rights reserved. No part ofthis publtation ‘may be reprodiced, stored in a retrieval sytem, ‘or transmaed in any form or By any means ‘Glecionte, mechanical, photocopying, record, ‘or otherwise) wtthout the priar wren permission (of the copyright owner. ‘This report is published by the Health and Safety Executive as part of a series of reports of work which has been supported by funds provided by the Executive. Neither the Executive, nor ‘Trevor Jee Associates, or any contractors concerned assume ‘any liability for the reports nor do they necessarily reflect the ‘views or policy of the Executive. Results, including detailed evaluation and, where relevant, recommendations stemming from their research projects are published in the OTH series of reports, Background information and data arising from these research projects are published in the OT! series of reports. ii