Contractors and workers have to be extra careful when excavating or digging up an area in the UK. There are miles of underground utility services and if they are damaged, it can cause serious injury to the workers, along with disruption of services and resultant financial losses. Even though most supervisors or contractors take care to avoid accidental cable strikes, more than 60,000 cases are reported each year. This is because most of them are not aware of the right use of the two main tools used for the detection of underground utility services - CAT and Genny.
The CAT, also known as cable avoidance tool is used to locate live power cables that have power running through them. But, in order to locate all the buried services, it is mandatory to use the CAT & Genny together. The Genny or signal generator is used to apply a signal to the underground services like, telecoms, gas pipes, water pipes and so on, which the cable avoidance tool is able to detect.
The problem with using CAT & Genny is that you cannot simply purchase the equipment, read the instructions and consider yourself an expert. You need to undertake proper cable avoidance training to understand everything that the CAT & Genny are able to do and the things that they cannot do.
In the UK, there are several specialist companies providing professional CAT & Genny training programmes that you can register for to learn everything about the equipment.
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