Undertaking Any Type Of Excavation Work Can Be Dangerous

Undertaking any sort of excavation on public roads, as well as many other places, can be fraught with danger. The reason is that there are underground services of all sorts including electricity cables, water pipes, gas pipes, telecoms, sewage pipes, and they can be anywhere. We all have electricity in our homes, and most have telephone landline connections. We all have water pipes and we all use sewage pipes. Many properties also use gas, and then there are fibre-optics and other services as well.

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The Very Sound Reasons For The Publication Of PAS256

There are estimated to be anywhere between 1.5 million kilometers and 2.5 million kilometers of underground services in the UK, depending on whose figures you believe. Whichever figure is correct, it is a lot of buried assets, and they can be found anywhere, even in the most unlikely places.

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Training in the Use of Tools for Detecting Underground Services is Essential

It is a fact that wherever you may be in the UK – even standing in the middle of a field – there may well be underground services just under your feet. Electricity cables run pretty much everywhere, as do water pipes, sewer pipes, and telecoms, and perhaps to lesser extent gas pipes and other services.

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Any Kind Of Excavation Work Can Be Dangerous

One of the most dangerous things that any construction worker can do is to dig down into the ground without there first having been a complete and thorough survey of the area by a competent surveyor using the very latest technology.

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The Many Ramifications of Striking Underground Services When Excavating

Sygma Solutions is now a EUSR approved training provider and also is CITB approved. Our courses are also approved by The Survey Association. This means that we can now provide EUSR HSG47 training for all operatives engaged in the location and identification of underground services in order to avoid striking them when carrying out excavation works.

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Striking Underground Services When Digging Can Be Fatal

When you are a contractor who is often called upon to undertake any sort of works which involve breaking the ground, you have to be extremely careful to avoid striking any underground services. This might seem an obvious thing to say, but the fact remains that there are somewhere around 60,000 strikes of underground services every year – about 230 every single working day up and down the country.

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vScan Training From Sygma Solutions

When undertaking any sort of excavation work it is critical to avoid striking any underground services. This is not just to avoid damage to the services themselves, although that is important. Striking a telephone cable, for instance, could bring a whole area of business to a halt – unable to use the internet or deal with customers. An electricity cable could have the same effect on manufacturers.

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Our Courses Include The Limitations of Cable Avoidance Tools

At Sygma Solutions our mission is to teach operatives everything – and we mean EVERYTHING – that they need to know about cable avoidance when undertaking any kind of excavation work, and about the cable avoidance tools that are used. This includes their limitations, and they do have certain limitations. If you are not aware of them, it can lead to drawing the wrong conclusions about the location of underground services.

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Reasons For Using The CAT & Genny For Location Of Buried Services

Any contractor undertaking any sort of excavation work, even if it only involves using hand tools, should carry out a survey of the area in order to locate underground services. There are some 1.5 million kms of underground services running under pavements and highways alone, and in order to repair and maintain these, the utility companies and Local Highways Authorities between them undertake over 3.5 million street works every year.

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HSG47 Training. What’s It All About?

Many people are unsure what HSG47 training is all about. HSG47 is the guide to commissioning, planning, managing, and carrying out work on or near to underground services, that is produced by the Health and Safety Executive. The latest edition, which is the third, was produced in 2014 and still stands today.

The HSG47 course that we provide here at Sygma Solutions trains all those involved in the location and identification of underground services to the standard laid down by HSG47.

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