Course description
When carrying out any excavation work, it is essential for the health and safety of both your employees and the public that any underground services are effectively located and avoided. Our bespoke CAT 4 and GENNY 4 course provides operatives with the knowledge needed to operate a Cable Avoidance Tool (CAT) and a Signal Generator (GENNY) safely and correctly. It also provides management and operatives with the essential training needed to install and lay cables in a safe and competent manner, meaning that serious incidents and injury will be prevented in the future.
The course fully covers the theory behind current legislation as well as best practice while using CAT and GENNYS. It also includes a practical element which gives delegates first-hand experience of using the actual locators to detect and trace the route of buried underground services.
Quinn’s Training Services have created a bespoke course which can be tailored to the needs and requirements of your company. It can be delivered as an in-house course or as an EUSR approved Endorsed Training Programme registered with EUSR and added to the candidate's EUSR Card.
We can also run this course as CAT 1 Locate Utility Services depending on your required specification.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This qualification is essential for any individual, at any level of the company, who is involved in cable location.
Prerequisites
There are no pre-course requirements for this course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the key differences between CAT4 and CAT and Genny4 and Genny
- Understand key features of the equipment, including service warnings, CALsafe, Swing and dynamic overload features
- Outline when and where to use a CAT and Genny, as well as their benefits and limitations
- Outline the key points of the HSG47 Avoiding Danger from Underground Services
- Outline the four basic elements of a Safe System of Work
- Understand how to read utility plans
- Describe the results of cable strikes and their implications on workers
- Understand what cable locators find
- Understand how to read signal detection and its practical implications
- Actively apply the transmitter signal
- Describe different modes
- Describe problems that may occur with location services
Training Course Content
The Cable Installation & Winch Appreciation course consists of the following areas:
- Describe CAT4 and Genny4
- Understand HSE Guidelines
- Describe the importance of using a CAT & Genny
- Understand the location services
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