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Utility specialists face exceptional dangers and difficulties during utility locating. As they handle hardware and segments that could shock them or catch their garments ablaze, utility specialists depend on their organization to furnish them with proper hardware and stuff.
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Utility specialists face exceptional dangers and difficulties during utility locating. As they handle hardware and segments that could shock them or catch their garments ablaze, utility specialists depend on their organization to furnish them with proper hardware and stuff. It’s likewise significant for an organization to set clear wellbeing techniques for group individuals to follow and establish a workplace empowering security. With significant expenses and efficiency misfortunes frequently connected with utility locating, you might need to consider ways you can work on your team’s security. Study the requirement for security at utility locating locales and the absolute most normal dangers utility specialists face. Finders experience security dangers consistently while they are taking care of their responsibility to guard laborers and the local area from exhuming risks.
Here are the main 10 finder security risks:
underground utility locating
Confined Space
Threats to the Eye
Climate and Weather
Dog Bites
Punctures and Foot Trauma
Poison Ivy and Other Skin Threats
Insect Bites and Stings
Walking, Lifting, Bending, and Squatting
Slips, Trips, and Falls
Time on the Road
Methods of Protection
Locate Utilities – 811 is an accessible asset with an office in each state. With legitimate pre-planning, 811 can give administrations to find the surmised area of each utility. Sometimes recently you burrow underground, call 811 for Utility Finding Administrations to find any perilous wires and cables.
Plan – Earlier to starting work, create a location particular security arranges to sketch out each step counting: finding each utility, burrowing strategies, spotting, and communication endeavors. After typically created, a great arrange of activity is to communicate this arrange with the work team earlier to each day’s burrowing exercises.
What Can You Do To Help?
Usually, a grassroots development is driven by two organizations, the National Utility Finding Temporary workers Affiliation and Harm Prevention Professional magazine. How can you offer assistance? Just like the call 811 sometime recently you burrow program, much of its advancement will be driven by word of mouth.
Why Safety Is Needed In Utility Locating
A secured and sound workplace does not simply safeguard workers from injury and infirmity; it can similarly cut down injury/sickness costs, decline non-appearance and turnover, increase effectiveness and quality, and raise laborer soul. All things considered, prosperity is valuable for business. Furthermore, guaranteeing workers is the best thing to do. While in light of everything, a couple of wounds and illnesses will impact utility locating reliably; associations can discover approaches to reduce the speed of injury and death. Other than the concerns of expecting to secure delegates, using more conspicuous prosperity rules can moreover diminish the repeat of workers’ compensation claims and put away your association cash. Utility locating standards furthermore help associations keep their workforce set up and prepared to manage tasks capably, instead of running in a skeleton group while workers recover.
Wear Individual Defensive Gear
Individual defensive gear (PPE) assumes a colossal part in working environment security. Defensive gear like the right gloves and instruments can mean the contrast between a job done the right way and a solicitation for clinical leave. Therefore, we stress the significance of securing your body. In utility laborer wellbeing, an amazing number of mishaps happen as a result of insufficient PPE. Service organizations ought to guarantee that their staff never wears garments that could combust, consume rapidly, or adhere to their skin in a fire. Fire-retardant outfits like coveralls frequently decline the probability of lethal consumption in case of an electrical or warm fire. At least, the external layer of the uniform ought to be fire safe. Tight or wrapped up dress aides too. Any utility laborers that work in closeness to electric circular segment dangers should wear extra layers of defensive dress or gear with an adequate bend rating. OSHA requires full-body assurance for any utility specialist presented to more than 600 volts.
Make A Utility Map
While you should call 811 proceeding unearthing, it’s likewise acceptable practice to devise a utility guide before beginning any utility help project. All things considered, there might be some private utility links or obscure underground utility lines that 811 doesn’t know about or their data might be not refreshed. To construct a utility guide, you can utilize old utility guides as a kind of perspective however never uses them to direct your exhuming. Utility guides should be refreshed and making one just before another undertaking is the most ideal approach to stay away from mishaps. Mortgage holders close to your exhuming site for the most part know where their private utility lines are. One can likewise search for tanks and meters around a property to find water pipes and electrical or gas lines.
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Staging, Slipping, And Falling
Utility locating destinations routinely include conceivably unsafe surfaces and conditions that can bring about slips, excursions, and falls. If a utility laborer falls, slips, or excursions in a risky climate, they could be truly harmed. These wounds can cost the organization cash in laborers’ pay guarantees and keep key individuals from chipping away at specific employment while recuperating. The fall and winter can be particularly perilous to laborers. Falling leaves and frigid surfaces can prompt specialists to slip. Also, if a laborer is tackling job overhead on a stage, frigid conditions and other elusive surfaces could make them fall while working high over the ground. Fallen leaves and snow can shroud potholes and other likely blocks, prompting laborers to stumble. I advised gear use can likewise cause excursions, slips, and falls. For example, some utility laborers will utilize a stepping stool as a framework or an extension. These inappropriate employments of a stepping stool are significantly more prone to make a laborer fall. Also, some of the time laborers don’t wear the right gear, particularly non-slip-safe shoes, which prompt more representatives to slip on the worksite.
Recruit Professional Utility Locators
Regardless of whether you’re burrowing to put in new underground utilities or doing some arranging, you generally need to notice the wellbeing measures recorded above to assist with securing yourself and every other person around your worksite. Incidentally hitting underground utility locating cannot just aim bothers, for example, water lack or force interference; it can likewise cause fire, genuine injury, and conceivably even demise to the laborers in question.
In case you’re a landowner and have no involvement in utility finding or delving in a utility site, you may not realize what to do on the off chance that you coincidentally hit a gas line or a water pipe. Accordingly, you should leave the work to service organizations or recruit experts who render utility-finding administrations. Our group is comprised of experts who have been in the utility business for quite a long time, and we meet every one of our solicitations with the most extreme consideration. You can leave your private utility finding and planning needs to us, so call On The Mark Locators, your believed utility finder accomplice!
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Inertial locating to accurately map LIVE underground gas distribution utilities is a game changer
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Inertial locating is an innovative technology that is used to accurately map underground pipe networks. But to date the technology has required non-pressurized pipes. Now a PHMSA-sponsored project has demonstrated that the technology can be applied to small-diameter pressurized gas lines with no disruption of service to customers. The Reduct DuctRunner inertial mapping technology, about which I have blogged previously, allows mapping networks of (unpressurized) pipes with various diameters for distances of up to 2 km (1.25 Miles) with a precision of 15 cm (6 Inches) horizontally and vertically.
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Inertial locating is an innovative technology that is used to accurately map underground pipe networks. But to date the technology has required non-pressurized pipes. Now a PHMSA-sponsored project has demonstrated that the technology can be applied to small-diameter pressurized gas lines with no disruption of service to customers. The Reduct DuctRunner inertial mapping technology, about which I have blogged previously, allows mapping networks of (unpressurized) pipes with various diameters for distances of up to 2 km (1.25 Miles) with a precision of 15 cm (6 Inches) horizontally and vertically.
As the underground congestion increases, accurate mapping data of gas infrastructure is very critical for ensuring public safety. To improve underground pipeline locating tool applicability, a recent technology development and demonstration project was sponsored by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and Operations Technology Development (OTD). The project was performed by a partnership between the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Reduct and PRISUM Technologies (Condux International) and has shown that inertial mapping technology can now be inserted through a vertical Hot Tap Entry (HTE) for mapping live (pressurized) gas pipe networks as small as 2 inches (5 cm), with no disruption in service to downstream gas customers.
Currently best practices for recording the location of new underground infrastructure are to survey it after installation and before covering the trench. Appropriate survey tools are total stations, RTK, and LiDAR. However, for (deeper lying) existing infrastructure these technologies cannot be used. Also, trenchless technology is increasingly being used with the result that cross bores have become a major problem in many jurisdictions. Figure 3An innovative technology that is being increasingly applied to locating existing pipe networks or those installed by way of horizontal drilling is inertial locating. Using this technology, it is possible to map networks of (empty) pipes with diameters ranging from 29 mm (1.1 inches) and above for distances of up to 2 km ( 1.25 Miles)) with a precision of up to 15 cm (6 Inches) in XYZ. The output of such a system is a 3D model.
Whereas conventional electromagnetic (EM) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) technologies have proven their value, they both require “boots on the pavement†and each has deficiencies that limits its applicability. EM methods only work for conductive materials, are generally not reliable for measuring depth and severed tracer wires for plastic pipes are a common problem. Soil conditions, nearby electromagnetic noise sources, and accessibility limits the usefulness of GPR. Inertial mapping relies on a battery powered autonomous probe (no cable is required) with on-board gyroscopes, accelerometers, and odometers. The mapping tool records changes in direction and speed at a hundred samples per second to create an accurate, high frequency 3D profile of the pipe segment being traversed. Inertial mapping avoids the major limitations of surface-based EM and GPR techniques; it is not sensitive to soil conditions and extraneous electromagnetic noise, works with all types of pipe materials and is safe because it does not require boots on the pavement.
The significant breakthrough realized in this PHMSA-sponsored project is for the mapping probe to enter a pressurized small diameter pipe through a standard vertical hot tap and making the 90-degree turn into the mapping direction. This eliminates the need to disrupt service to customers because the pipe remains pressurized. The Reduct/GTI/Prisum partnership successfully demonstrated the new solution by mapping several 2 inch (5 cm) and 4 inch (10 cm) gas pipes owned by gas companies operating in the Chicago area. The longest run performed during these demonstrations was 300 feet (100 metres) in each direction but the Ductrunner developers believe this distance can be increased significantly. This latest advance in inertial mapping dramatically broadens the applicability of the technology and represents a major breakthrough in mapping underground pipe networks of various sizes and in different environments. It is expected that the first commercial units of the live gas line solution will become commercially available within months.
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New regulations were released January 14 by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDoT) that mandates (1) the electronic submission of high accuracy plans showing the location of of underground infrastructure prior to commencing a construction project and (2) the electronic submission of accurate as-builts after completion of construction. Last week Rob Martindale, Program Manager Utilities/Railroads at CDOT, gave a webinar elucidating the revised statutes applying to excavation safety.
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New regulations were released January 14 by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDoT) that mandates (1) the electronic submission of high accuracy plans showing the location of of underground infrastructure prior to commencing a construction project and (2) the electronic submission of accurate as-builts after completion of construction. Last week Rob Martindale, Program Manager Utilities/Railroads at CDOT, gave a webinar elucidating the revised statutes applying to excavation safety.
These are the latest revisions to Colorado statutes which began a year ago. To date the main revisions to Colorado Revised Statues, Title 9, Article 1.5 Excavation Safety (C.R.S 9-1.5 ) have set a new level for excavation damage prevention. First and foremost, for major public civil engineering projects it is now mandatory to conduct a subsurface utility engineering (SUE) at the beginning of a project. In preparation for a SUE survey project owners are now required to notify Colorado one call (CO 811). Within 10 days utility and telecom network owners and operators are required to provide records other information and mark the ground. After completion of the SUE survey the project owner must provide plans stamped by a professional engineer (PE) or professional land surveyor (PLS) showing the location of underground utilities and the quality level achieved for each. The target quality level is ASCE 38-02 QL B or A. If it has not been possible to meet or exceed QL B, documentation must be provided explaining what was attempted and why it was unsuccessful. Another mandatory requirement of the revised statutes is that all newly installed utilities must be electronically locatable. This generally requires the installation of tracer wires or electronically detectable balls. To enforce the provisions of the revised statutes the Underground Damage Prevention Safety Commission was created by the legislation with powers of enforcement including civil penalties.
As of January 14 Term #112 of the new regulations mandates the electronic submission to CDOT of a digital plan, typically the result of a SUE survey, showing all physical offsets, both horizontal and vertical, to all existing utilities, including laterals to buildings, before commencing work on a public construction project. Furthermore, Term #116 requires that accurate as-builts, stamped by a PE or PLS, must be submitted electronically to CDOT within 45 days of the completion of work on a public construction project. The as-built submission must conform to CDOT published standards including the soon to be released ASCE utility as-built standard “Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Dataâ€. Location accuracy in as-builts is required to meet ASCE Quality Level 3 (0.3 feet or 100 mm) or better.
The mobile application used by CDOT and its contractors for capturing and sharing information about the location of underground utilities is Pointman developed by Prostar, based in Grand Junction CO. Pointman runs on handhelds, phones and tablets and priced to be affordable for small contractors. CDOT has acquired a number of Pointman licences that enables it to provide Pointman apps to its construction contractors so they are all able to view CDOT data in the field and also add to the data as new infrastructure is installed or existing infrastructure is relocated in preparation for a road or highway project. Furthermore CDOT now requires that over 150 utility companies and more than 1,000 utility installation stakeholders use ProStar’s PointMan to capture and record the location of underground utilities.
The cloud enterprise application that manages this information at CDOT is Transparent Earth, also developed by Prostar. In the near future Prostar plans to release a new cloud application Prostar Pro. One of the important features of Prostar Pro is the ability to share data with other instances of Prostar Pro. For example, a large contractor may have its own instance of Prostar Pro which can connect to and share data with CDOT’s instance of Prostar Pro when the contractor is working on a CDOT project.
The CDOT infrastructure data stored and managed in Transparent Earth is in general accurate to ASCE QL 3 (0.3 feet or 100 mm) or better. It also contains extensive metadata about each data set, referred to as its pedigree. The pedigree includes when the data was captures, the equipment used, who captured it, the quality level, the geographic projection and coordinate system, horizontal and vertical precision, and so on. The pedigree information is essential because it provides information required to assess the reliability of the data about each underground facility. The provisions of the Colorado Revised Statutes has resulted in the reliability of the data contained in the CDOT database being much higher than is typically found in utility or telecom records. The high accuracy underground utility data comes from two sources, both mandated by the recent Colorado Revised Statutes; subsurface utility engineering surveys (SUE) and as-builts submitted for newly installed utility and telecom infrastructure. In addition, in some parts of Colorado, for example, the western slope, CDOT is inventorying existing underground infrastructure in the public right of way to support future civil engineering projects. Ultimately it is to be expected that the CDOT data will comprise a complete, current, high accuracy map of underground assets in the public right of way in Colorado. Such a map will provide immeasurable benefits to everyone involved in construction in the public right of way.
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