Reducing Utility Strikes – Important Checks to Make On Work Sites

Cities and towns are growing at a rapid pace, relying on complex and intricate utility networks to keep our vital services running smoothly. However, some areas will find it harder than others to accommodate new infrastructure beneath the ground.

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How Do Cable Locators Work? – Key Principles of Buried Utility Detection

If you know anything about the utility industry, you’ll know that undertaking any excavation will inevitably bring site workers into close proximity to underground utilities, including electricity, gas, water and telecommunication works.

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Do You Need EUSR HSG47?

The Energy and Utility Skills Register (EUSR) is an independent skills platform that provides standards that are recognised in the utility sector. Dealing with sector skills, this body handles everything from water, waste management, gas and electricity.

For operatives who are handling excavations and projects involving underground infrastructure, accreditation from EUSR HSG47 is one of the best ways to uphold the standards of the cable avoidance industry.

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The Importance of CAT Courses and How They Work

The accidental striking of underground assets and services, such as cables and pipelines, can cause major injuries to construction workers, as well as fatalities, in the worst situations.

With the sheer scale of excavations happening across the nation for utilities companies or other underground infrastructure projects, it’s important that operatives have the right level of training to keep themselves safe.

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Where Can I Find the Best Cable Avoidance Tools

As part of a proficient cable avoidance strategy, whether you’re operating as part of a firm handling utilities contracts, or within the utilities sector itself, you’ll know that finding the right tools is crucial.

You’ll probably have come across a range of companies offering a wide range of cable avoidance tools, as well as many merchants that offer reconditioned CAT and Genny cable avoidance tools.

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How To Reduce The Risks of Cable Avoidance

Each year, thousands of accidental cable strikes are recorded in the UK. And there are also many that never make it into official data. As well as causing disruptions to various construction or excavation projects, these incidents pose a huge risk to people’s safety and can lead to a number of serious injuries, and even fatalities.

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Our Traditional Courses Now Available Online

Dear Customer

I am writing to you to let you know that we are still able to provide our CAT & Genny training including our wide range of accredited courses.

We have been working hard to adapt our procedures.

For both options all delegates will be fully briefed at the start of both the classroom and practical sessions on COVID19 procedures and a documented risk assessment will be completed

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Sygma Solutions Can Provide You With Mala Easy Locator GPR Machines

Carrying out any sort of excavation work requires a considerable amount of planning and forethought before even putting a spade into the ground. Strictly speaking, you should probably consider learning where the electricity cables, water pipes, and sewage pipes run into and out of your home through the front garden, but it is not likely that you will hit anything if you are just planting a few shrubs. However, if you are going to have an extension built, then you need to know where everything is before digging out foundations. Not only is a cable strike dangerous, but it can also finish up costing a lot of money.

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Conducting Underground Surveys Is Vital For Any Contractor Who Needs To Carry Out Digging

One of the biggest problems that contractors face when carrying out any work below ground level is accidentally making contact with underground services. The simple fact is that underground services can exist anywhere, even in the most unlikely places. It is fairly obvious that they will exist in streets and roads with buildings, because we all need water, electricity, telecoms, and sewage pipes, and in some cases gas, and these services have to be provided to all buildings.

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The Danger of Cable Strikes and How to Avoid Them

Cable strikes are amongst the most significant health and safety risks for engineers in the utility sector. An estimated 60,000 underground cable strikes occur every year, and many of these lead to severe injury or death, as well as costing businesses millions in associated damages and compensations. Sygma Solution works with Utility Engineers to avoid these situations.

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