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Cable Avoidance and Service Location Training Courses
About the Cable Avoidance Course The
following cable avoidance courses come in either full or half day format and include training on STATS Drawings: - Radio detection CAT & Genny
- C SCOPE CAT & Transmitter
- Kolectric Series Locators
We also offer full day assessment cable avoidance courses, these
combine training, written and practical assessment. Full day cable avoidance courses are: - Radio detection RD400-RD4000 Range Courses
- 3M Series.
All cable avoidance
courses cover the following: - Reasons for using locators – both safety & financial
- Theory – covering both the benefits and system including limitations of the technology
- Practical work – hands on locating using receiver,
transmitter and accessories
- Feedback, questions
/ answers, application & techniques, general care and maintenance of the equipment
- Simple ways to locate street lighting cables
- Location of bends
- Location of junctions
- Identification of utilities
- Service connections
- Locating through concrete reinforcing
- Depth measurement (where applicable)
- Using Sondes for non metallic pipes.
Who Should Attend
a Cable Avoidance Training Course? Competence
training in the use of cable locators is widely recognised as one of the key steps to reducing cable strikes. So any person
working on the roads, people who are setting out before a build, surveyors and any person excavating areas should be trained
in the correct use of cable locators.
Cable Avoidance Course
Duration This is a one day course
Cable Avoidance Qualification Certificate
of Competence
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Radio Detection RD 4000 Training Courses
Reasons
for using RD400 and RD4000 locators - Explanation of the “safe system of work” ref: HSG47 “Avoiding
Danger from Underground Services”
- Why
Use RD400 and RD4000 Locators?
- Cable
Strike
- Implications
Utility Plans- Explanation,
purpose and interpretation of Utility Plans
- Marking
up of Utility Plans, identifying marker posts, covers and any visible signs of utility routes
- Examples of Utility Plans
Application of the RD4000 TransmitterPractical Training using RD4000 & Transmitter- Use of all RD4000 Transmitter
Frequencies
- Use of Peak & Null
- Correct use of Depth Measurement
- Positively identifying services
Review Questions & FeedbackTraining Course Learning Objectives- To Understand Health & Safety Responsibilities Including HSG47
- To Understand and Apply all Issues Relating to Utility Plans
- Correct Use Of RD4000 INC Depth & Peak/Null Techniques
Complete a
Practical Demonstration of Equipment
Cable Avoidance Course Duration This is a one day course
Cable Avoidance Qualification Certificate
of Competence
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