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Avoiding danger when working above
underground cables
Our main function is to locate as many services possible on your Project or work site as well as to protect Australia's valuable underground infrastructure by using the most up to date equipment, information and experience.
Our service's include:
 Underground Cable Locating 
Vacuum Excavation
Horizontal Concrete x ray
As construct survey
Geotechnical Clearances
1300 Locate Damage Avoidance System
 YOUR DUTY OF CARE WHEN IT COMES TO THESE 'UNDERGROUND CABLES' :
Before any excavation work is carried out, the principal contractor for the construction work must:
| 1. Phn 1100 for FREE Dial Before You Dig Plans of your site |
| 2. Book a 1300 LOCATE Underground Cable Locator |
| 3. Pothole services to expose the service & Identification |
| 4. Proceed with Digging with caution. |
These key elements complement each other, and all four should be used when working near buried cable and services.
Damage to underground cables can cause fatal or severe injury. Over the years there have been a wide variety of accidents and disruptions from contractors unwittingly digging up underground assets such as ruptured sewerage pipes, explosions from gas mains and even deaths from contact with underground electricity cables. The severity of incidents varies greatly and then there are the Costs.......$$$,$$$.$$
GUIDELINE FOR UNDERGROUND CABLE LOCATING
Your FREE Dial Before You Dig Plans can give an approximate indication of the underground cables that exist on your site. Some may not even be shown on your plan at all and may very well be under your job site. They are rarely drawn accurately or to scale and should not be relied upon. The position of any underground cable or service in or near the proposed work area should be thoroughly checked by a highly trained and Accredited 1300 LOCATE Underground Cable Locator.
Your 1300 Locators vehicle will be stocked with all equipment and devices necessary for him to locate as many services as possible in your area of works.
Cable Locating
The 1300 Cable Locator will carry out a brief inspection of your site as to what hazards might be present, followed by the visual inspection of above ground indicators that underground cable and services are present and at what direction. Varying soil conditions from site to site also needs to be considered as this will affect the pipe locator device signal strengths.
Positions that have received signal strengths will be marked on the surface as a guide that there is a service or subject matter found below. Many sites these days have been filled with all matter of debris so the Cable Locators will mark area's that need to be avoided.
Vacuum Excavation Pothole and Cable Management
Now that the area has been marked; a Vacuum Excavation unit using water can pothole the Cable and Services tracking there exact location, direction and depth. They can now be ID Marked using our 1300 Locate Damage Avoidance System, electronically Mapped and overlayed onto Software. Now your Client will have the exact location of every service on His site and will have no problem ever finding them again. And the Data is stored with 1300 Locate for future reference if His file gets lost.
You can now be satisfied that Services will never be untraceable again.
Call us today we have Cable Locators and Vacuum units ready to go...
1300 56 22 83 or 1300 LOCATE
'Put it in ya phone mate' !!!
CASE STUDIES
pipe locator, utility locator, cable management, potholing, cable detection, underground cable, cable locator
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