Scope of Services

UNDERGROUND SERVICE/S LOCATING & MARKOUT SERVICE.

General

• USL provides to customers a service of locating and marking out of all metallic underground services. Note that non-metallic u/g services are unable to be located by electronic locating equipment. Council water & sewer plans, together with careful hand digging by customer/excavator, are required to locate services laid in plastic, ceramic or concrete pipes.

On site checking

• The locating/mark out services are normally requested for a specific site, and the extent of USL locating duties at that site are to be clearly defined by the customer, and understood by the USL locator, before locating work commences.
• Locator confirms to customer receipt of the job, and whether customer has ordered &/or received all Utilities plans of the site. If plans are on site, USL are able to proceed with a physical locate on the date/time as requested by customer.  USL recommends that customer delays any excavating work until all plans are on site.

Scope of Services

• Arrive at site on agreed date & time.
  • Check with customer on site the extent of the locating & mark out
  • Study the Utilities plans of the site for all U/G services marked
• Locate the various Utilities u/g services as marked on the Utilities plans, to the extent of the site as requested by customer: i.e. Telecomm, Telstra Clear, Power, Gas, other metallic u/g services, such as CCTV cables, using Metrotech/Dynatel and CAT3 electronic locating equipment.
• Ensure customer is fully aware the USL electronic locating equipment does not pick up non-metallic u/g services i.e. plastic, ceramic or concrete pipes.
• Mark out the various metallic services on the ground with spray paint. Colours to be in accordance with OSH/Department of Labour standards, together with Telecom and other Utilities standards as to corridor marking widths.
• Ensure customer is fully aware they cannot use mechanical excavating plant inside the corridor markings without first hand excavating to positively identify location of underground services.
• In the case of a specific site area (e.g. bore hole) to be marked out, this will be confined to 3 meters in any direction from the customer supplied mark out start point.
• Services requested to be located without Utilities plans on site are to be completed
  on a "best endeavor's" basis only.

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