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MAIN POINTS
- Ensure that all information on existing underground services has been obtained from the main contractor before works commence on site.
- Always assume that there are live services present on site, even if existing drawings /information indicates that none are present.
- Do not assume that buried services are always given their recommended cover, cables may often be just below the surface.
- Treat all services found as live.
- Ensure that all services are physically located and marked utilizing location equipment (for example, a CAT scanner).
- Where practicable, hand-held power tools (i.e., Kango Hammers) should not be used to break the paved surface within 0.5 meters of the indicated line of service.
- When excavating near the indicated line of service, carefully hand-dig trial holes until the line of service has been established.
- When the excavator bucket is digging, another team of workers should keep well clear of the bucket.
- In case of a cable is struck, the crane operator should stay in the cabin, but should he have to leave the cabin, he should jump down, not climb down otherwise he may be electrocuted severely.
IN CASE OF ANY LEAKAGE OR STRIKE
- Remove all personnel and employees from the immediate vicinity of a service connection to a building that has deteriorated, and warn the occupants and any adjoining building, to leave the building until it is safe to return.
- Inform the related authorities of any gas leak or cable strike.
- Prohibit smoking and extinguish all naked flames and other sources of ignition, within at least 5 meters of the leakage area.
POINT TO NOTE
CHECK BEFORE YOU DIG!!