EUSR Category 1 Location & Avoidance & Category 2 Implement Safe ( Digging) Excavating Practices

Course Aims

About EUSR Category 1 & 2 Combined: Locate Utility Services & Implement Safe (Digging) Excavating Practices

The safety critical course includes both theoretical and practical assessments in order to increase the knowledge required to safely detect buried utility services as well as increasing the knowledge required for those working to safely excavate and maintain holes and trenches using both hand tools and hand held power tools

These qualifications are often referred to as HSG47 or Cat & Genny training and Safe Digging Practices. Our instruction goes beyond traditional 'in-house' sessions and is mapped to both EUSR and National Occupational Standards.

Who Attends

Managers, supervisors, safety professionals and/or operatives who are required to oversee and/or carry out work employing underground services detection devices.

Course Content

Underground legislation and guidance pertaining to underground services, excavation, construction and groundworks. Examples are: HSG47, HSWA 1974, HSG150, CDM 2015, Work at Height Regs 2015, PUWER 1998, Confined Spaces Regulations 1997, EUSMUNC06, EUSMUNC07, COSVR370 and EUSEPUS044
Interpret utility drawings and line search documents
Demonstrate usage of cable location devices (Cat & Genny) in order to locate utility services
Identify the dangers and hazards associated with carrying out ground survey detection
Accept the limitations of underground utility detection equipment and drawings
Grasp the true costs of utility 'strikes' to contractors, stakeholders and wider society
Distinguish between good and bad practices via increased education in this specialist area
Identify ground/soil types and changeable conditions faced on-site
Carry out or interpret Risk Assessment and Permits to Work
Implement safe digging practices through hand digging techniques

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