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Underground services: CAT and Genny scan before digging
Checklist · Before each excavation or break into the ground
Checks underground services are found before digging: plans obtained, the area scanned in every mode by a trained person, services marked, and hand-dug trial holes near them.
Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.
The law and guidance behind it
- HSE HSG47, Avoiding danger from underground services
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Regulation 25(4) (preventing danger from services)
The questions
Where and when
- Where the dig is
- Date
Checks
- Service plans obtained and looked at for this area
- Locator and signal generator in calibration, self-tested
- Area scanned in power, radio and Genny modes
- Services found marked on the ground (paint or pegs)
- Trial holes hand-dug to expose services near the line of the dig
- The person scanning is trained to use the locator
- Services found (write "None" if none)
- Photo of the marked area
Sign-off
- Scanned by
- Date and time
- Signature
A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.