Articles
The method,written down.
Method and behaviour, written for somebody standing over an excavation, not somebody buying a course.
Read it,then go.
How Long Should a Scan Take?
The question with no number in the answer. In a field you could almost set a time per mode. In a street the plans and the street decide it, because they tell you how many services there are to find and how many connections that means.
Four Behaviours That Can Cause Cable Strikes on Site
Most strikes trace back to four things people do, or skip, during the pre-excavation survey. Knowing what causes them is the first step to preventing one.
The Genny First Approach, In Practice
The method walked through on real ground: where the signal goes when you connect first, and what you miss when you do not.
Why You Connect the Genny First
Passive detection alone is not enough to find buried services. The Genny-first method, and why it changes what a survey is actually capable of finding.
Detecting Plastic Pipes: Methods and Their Limits
Why a Genny and CAT cannot find plastic gas or water pipes, and what each alternative (acoustic, sonde, GPR, tracer wire, trial holes) can and cannot do on site.
The Signal Clamp: What It Does, and When You Need One
What a signal clamp is, how it compares with direct connection and induction, and the situations on site where it finds the services the other two miss.
Utility Strike Prevention: A Guide for Site Managers
Pre-dig procedure, training, supervision and what to do in the hour after a strike, written for the person running the site rather than the person holding the CAT.
Test Before Touch: A Recommendation to Adopt Voltsticks
Why anyone working on electrically connected street furniture should carry a voltstick: the risk, the fix, and how to roll Test Before Touch out across a workforce.