Course Details

6. Cable and Underground Asset Location

CUAL
Course Outline
This course we are providing is nationally recognised and forms part of an AQF certification. Students will have to complete a Language, Literacy and Numeracy online assessment (more information here) as well as successfully complete all the online content before attending class.

This course has been designed to impart the skills and knowledge required to identify, locate and protect underground services in Civil Construction. It also trains the skills required to determine and mark the location and identity of gas, water, electrical, telecommunications and other underground utility services using a range of specialised instruments and asset plans.

This Nationally Accredited course is for civil and telecommunications workers who are required to locate underground services prior to commencing excavation or cabling works. Learners gain the skills to accurately locate and avoid costly damaging of buried underground assets.
Course Content 
Course outcomes

1. Plan and prepare for identify, locate and protect underground services
2. Operate pipe and cable locating equipment
3. Locate underground services
4. Conduct housekeeping activities

The course covers:
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  • Working Safely
  • Work Instructions, SWMS and SDS
  • Risk assessments, identifying and reporting hazards
  • Environmental issues
  • Site isolation and traffic management requirements
  • Planning and preparation of work areas.
  • Tools & equipment
  • Dial Before You Dig and contacting utility services
  • Visual, Electronic and physical searches
  • Theory of electronic locations
  • Signal trace frequencies
  • Effects of different soil conditions
  • Locating underground services.
  • Signal injection and grounding
  • Search techniques
  • Practical operation of locators
  • Protecting existing services
  • Damage notification requirements
  • Closing and cleaning up the area.
  • Completing Documentation
Delivers National Competency:
RIICCM202E Identify, locate and protect underground services
Course Delivery
Course Duration: 2 days Face to Face
Course Cost
$595.00 (GST not applicable) Payment Plan 

This course can be paid off in 8 easy instalments by using debit success – the total cost is $632.40

Duration: 8 weekly instalments of $77.80 plus a once-off  $10 establishment fee

You can apply for the easy payment option once you have submitted your enrolment form. If your application for the easy payment plan is for any reason declined you have the option to cancel the course without incurring any fees.
 

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Upcoming Workshops

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There are currently no dates available for this course.
There are currently no dates available for this course.
Name Date Time Location Available Spaces Cost
DBYD – SA – Cable and Underground Asset Location 28/08/2024 – 29/08/2024 FT (SA) 08:00 am – 04:00 pm KIDMAN PARK 10 $0.00
There are currently no dates available for this course.
Name Date Time Location Available Spaces Cost
VIC – DBYD Cable and Underground Asset Location 16/04/2024 – 17/04/2024 FT (MEL) 07:30 am – 03:00 pm THOMASTOWN 4 $0.00
DBYD – VIC – Cable and Underground Asset Location 16/10/2024 – 17/10/2024 FT (MELB) 08:00 am – 04:00 pm PORT MELBOURNE 10 $0.00
There are currently no dates available for this course.
There are currently no dates available for this course.
There are currently no dates available for this course.