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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The Need For Training On The Location Of Underground Services

HS47 is guidance from the HSE on the avoidance of danger from underground services. The latest edition, which is the third, was published in 2014 and brought the guidance up to date. It is aimed at all those involved in commissioning, planning, managing, and carrying out work on or near underground services, and is also of use to the owners and operators of such services.

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An Overview Of The Sygma Solutions CAT And Genny Course

If you are a surveyor who needs to undertake surveys in order to locate underground utilities, you need to attend a proper training course in the correct use of the CAT and Genny in all of their modes. Sygma Solutions is the leading provider of CAT and Genny training in the UK and can offer courses here at our centre in Wigan or at your site anywhere in the UK.
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EUSR CAT And Genny Training From Sygma Solutions

The Energy & utility Skills Register (EUSR) issues cards to some operatives in affiliation with the CSCS. These cards display a photograph of the holder, their name, and unique EUSR number. The reverse side of the card displays their registrations and their expiry dates. Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) affiliated cards are issued to operatives who have passed a Utility SHEA scheme since 1 December 2008. These operatives will have passed the new affiliated randomised health & safety test. If an operative has not passed one of these tests, then the CSCS hologram will not appear on their card.

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Cable Avoidance Training Is Critical For Contractors Undertaking Groundwork

Any contractor undertaking excavations of any description must be aware of the possibility, or indeed the likelihood, of underground cables and utilities that are at the precise point, or very close to, where the excavation has to take place. In fact, the problem should be approached from the point of view that there are very likely to be underground utilities and cables, rather than the fact that it is unlikely.

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