When it goes wrong
Behaviour on site
8 things filed against this subject, in every format the Bureau holds.
CAT Manager: Getting the Data Off, and Telling Good Data From Bad
How to pull usage data off a CAT4 and what to do with it once you have it. Which models record what, how to read the raw data, and how a supervisor tells a proper scan from a box ticked.
Watch 1:20:50 →What Happens If You Hit a Cable
The consequences of striking a cable, overhead and underground, the path of least resistance through a person, and the injuries that follow. The reason the locator comes out at all.
Watch 40:11 →The Genny First Approach Explained
Why the signal generator goes on before anything else, and what a passive-only sweep is actually telling you. The training video behind the method.
Watch 16:07 →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
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