HSG47 is guidance from the Health & Safety Executive regarding the dangers of striking underground services when digging. In fact, it is entitled “Avoiding Danger From Underground Services” and it is aimed at “all those involved in commissioning, planning, managing and carrying out work on or near underground services”. It is stated that it is also useful to owners and operators of underground services.
Read moreThe construction industry is one of the most dangerous for workers that there is. Accidents can happen for many different reasons, and they can literally happen from the ground up. A lot of heavy equipment is used. Scaffolding can cause issues with people falling from height. There can be problems installing electricity, gas, water, and so on.
But if you are constructing a building, you can have problems from the very first day because the first job is to build the foundations, and that means digging.
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Energy & Utility Skills provides membership, assurance, and skills solutions to help employers attract, develop, and retain a sustainable, skilled workforce to ensure the seamless delivery of essential services to 67 million people and UK industry every day.
Read moreIf you wish to work as a site surveyor for the location and identification of underground utilities on an HS2 site, you will need the Proqual QCF Level 2 Utility Avoidance and Location Qualification, as it is an HS2 requirement. The good news is that, at Sygma Solutions, we provide a 2-day training and assessment course that will enable you to obtain the Proqual QCF Level 2 Utility Avoidance and Location Qualificationso that you will be able to work on any HS2 site.
Read moreOne of the biggest dangers that can be faced by workers in the water sector when working underground is that of striking electricity cables and other services. Such cable strikes can result in serious injury and are on occasion fatal.
The problem does not just face water sector workers but can affect any workers who need to become involved in excavation. It is believed that there are around 4 million excavations undertaken by workers in the UK every year, and that this results in some 60,000 cable strikes, or strikes of other utilities.
Read moreAny sort of construction project which involves digging – which is the vast majority of construction projects – requires a considerable amount of planning before commencing work. Let’s face it, when you are constructing a building, the first thing that you need to do is to create the foundations. Certainly, some projects are concerned with restoring a building or changing it around for a new purpose, but any new build project is going to involve digging as the first stage of the work.
Read moreWhen you need to undertake a survey in order to find underground services in a site where you need to excavate, for whatever reason, before doing anything else you really need to be able locate and identify every or any utility that is present.
There are some very useful tools that will help you with this, one of which is GPR.
Read moreIf you work in the construction industry and your job includes locating and identifying underground services on a site where excavation is due to take place, it is vital to undertake a CAT and Genny course such as those that we provide at Sygma Solutions.
You cannot just take the CAT and Genny out of the box and read the instructions because there is far more to it than that. It would be just too easy to make mistakes without the proper training. For example, and we have said this before, but it is worth repeating, you might use the CAT and Genny and decide that there is nothing in the site where you are going to dig. So, you start digging away and suddenly hit a cable or gas pipe for instance.
Read moreStriking underground services when carrying out any sort of excavation work is always going to be serious. There is the risk of serious injury to workers carrying out the digging, whether with hand tools or a mechanical digger, and on occasion this can be fatal. There is also, at the very minimum, the cost of repairs to the service, whether that is electricity, gas, water, sewage pipes, telecoms, fibreoptic, and more.
Read moreThe vast majority of the population of the UK, or for that matter anywhere else, never give a thought to how their water arrives at the tap, their electricity is able to turn the lights on whenever they press a switch, or what happens when they flush the toilet. These things are just “there” as far as most people are concerned.
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