Unaccredited - Cat and Genny Cable Detection course syllabus.

Category: Energy-and-Utility

Level: Beginner

600 people are injured every year due to underground cables being damaged during excavation work on the highway. Many more are injured through damaging water and gas pipes, these damages often incur high repair charges and loss of work.

Competence training in the use of cable locators is widely recognised as one of the key steps to reducing cable strikes. So any person working on the roads, people who are setting out before a build, surveyors and any person excavating areas should be trained in the correct use of cable locators.

Reasons for using locators � both safety & financial
Feedback, questions / answers, application & techniques, general care and maintenance of the equipment
Simple ways to locate street lighting cables
Location of bends
Location of junctions
Identification of utilities
Service connections
Locating through concrete reinforcing
Depth measurement (where applicable)
Theory � covering both the benefits and system including limitations of the technology
Practical work � hands on locating using receiver, transmitter and accessories