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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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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