Enhance your staff’s ability to identify, locate and safely work around underground utilities. This IIRSM-approved underground services training course covers techniques for locating utilities, ensuring safe excavation practices and effectively responding to accidental strikes. It also highlights the dangers associated with working near underground services and provides strategies to minimise these risks. The course is ideal for those involved in commissioning, planning, managing and conducting work on or near underground services.
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Underground Services Training
£25.00 +VAT
| Courses | Price per Course |
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| 1 - 14 | £25.00 |
| 15 - 24 | £22.00 |
| 25 - 34 | £20.00 |
| 35 - 44 | £18.00 |
| 45 - 59 | £15.00 |
| 60 - 69 | £14.00 |
| 70 - 89 | £12.00 |
| 90 - 99 | £10.00 |
| 100 - 200 | £9.50 |
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This underground services training course is designed for professionals in the construction, engineering, telecommunications, agriculture and utilities sectors to ensure safe and accurate underground operations. The course covers the fundamental elements of a safe excavation system, including planning, locating utilities and employing safe excavation practices. Participants learn how to avoid underground services during work and receive crucial training on responding to accidental utility strikes.
Underground services are vital components of urban infrastructure, and mishandling them can lead to severe consequences, including service disruptions, accidents and legal liabilities. Properly locating and managing these services is essential to maintaining safety and operational efficiency.
This course addresses the common challenges faced during excavation work, offering practical solutions and best practices. By completing this training, participants will learn how to safely conduct excavation, avoid utilities, reduce risks of accidents and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
As an employer, you are responsible for ensuring the safety of your workers and the public when dealing with underground utilities. This includes conducting thorough risk assessments, providing appropriate training and implementing safe working practices.
In the UK, several legislations highlight these duties, including:
Understanding and fulfilling these responsibilities is crucial to maintaining a safe working environment and avoiding legal repercussions. This course will help you meet these obligations effectively.
Single Module
25+ minutes
This course contains the following sections:
Discusses what underground services are and explores their different types.
Emphasises the critical need to locate services to avoid health and safety, as well as financial and legal consequences.
Covers essential steps for safe excavation, including permits, utility plans, colour coding and using websites to locate underground services.
Explores techniques and tools for accurately detecting, identifying and marking underground utilities.
Covers best practices to minimise risks and avoid accidents during excavation.
Teaches how to respond effectively to accidents involving accidental strikes of different types of utilities.
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Users must complete an assessment before earning their certification.
The end-of-course test is:
A score of 80% is required to pass.
The underground services training certificate includes the trainee’s name, company name, course name, date of completion, expiry date and name of the approval body.
An IIRSM-approved certificate will be available for download and printing instantly upon course completion.
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Underground services, also known as buried services or underground utilities, refer to essential infrastructure such as water pipes, gas lines, electrical cables, telecommunications cables and sewage systems located beneath the ground.
Accurately locating underground services is crucial to avoid the health, safety, financial and legal consequences of striking utilities during excavation.
This course is ideal for construction, engineering, telecommunications, agriculture, utilities and site management professionals who need to ensure the safety and accuracy of their underground operations.
This course’s benefits include enhanced safety, reduced risk of accidents, improved competency in handling underground utilities and compliance with health and safety regulations.
All Human Focus courses are accredited or approved by an independent health and safety body to guarantee quality and accuracy. This course is approved by IIRSM.
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