Locate Utility Services & Implement Safe (Digging) Excavating Practices (Categories 1 & 2)
This EUSR Locate Utility Services and Implement Safe (Digging) Practices (Categories 1 & 2) certification delivers the necessary skills, knowledge, and understanding to safely detect and excavate buried utility services.
Description
Buried Utility Services are the underground pipes, cables and equipment used in public essentials such as electricity, gas, water, sewage and telecommunications. Commercial examples include operations such as crude oil and natural gas petrochemical pipelines. They are most often buried deep enough to require machinery-led excavation operations.
To avoid disruption of services and prevent serious injury when working on and around buried services, it is critical for operatives to know where they are, which sounds simple but requires training. For example, damaging a cable can cause fatalities, electric shocks, electrical explosions, and fire, resulting in severe burns to the hands, face, and body. Therefore, training to locate buried utility services and how to excavate around them is essential to ensure the safety of operators and others around them.
The Energy & Utility Skills Register (EUSR) is the online register of training and skills for the energy and utility sector. In partnership with CSCS, the EUSR sets out to nurture and maintain a skilled and sustainable workforce in our industry.
The course content includes:
- Legislation and guidance in underground services, excavation, construction and groundworks
- Interpreting utility drawings and line search documents
- How to use cable location devices (Cat & Genny) to detect utility services
- The dangers and hazards in ground survey detection
- The limitations of underground utility detection equipment and drawings
- How utility 'strikes' affect contractors, stakeholders and wider society
- How to distinguish between good and bad practices in detection and excavation
- Identifying ground and soil types and changeable conditions present on-site
- Carrying out and interpreting Risk Assessments and Permits to Work
- Implementing safe digging practices through hand digging techniques
Identification
Must Bring Photo ID - For British Nationals, one of the following (original hard copy - not electronically): a current and valid branded form of identity token, used for accessing the RMI (Railway Maintained Infrastructure) such as a Sentinel Card; in-date and valid full driving licence; in-date and valid UK Provisional Photo Card Driving Licence; in-date and valid passport, a UK biometric ID Card/Residence Permit (BRP), an Armed Forces Identity Card, a proof of age card recognised under PASS with a unique reference number (this includes the Citizen ID Card), N.I. Electoral Identity Card or a resident permit as per Home Office guidance.
For Non-British Nationals - an in-date and valid passport, Identity Card or Driving Licence from an EU or European Economic Area (EEA) country or a US Passport Card is required (original hard copy - not electronically).
PPE
PPE may be required depending on delivery environment.
Prerequisites
Delegates must be at least 16 years of age.
Must have sufficient command of English language, and of the English language as detailed in Network Rail Company Specification NR/L2/CTM/021 (Competence & Training in Track Safety).
Please advise of any special needs i.e. dyslexia in advance of the course.