Safe Excavation in the Vicinity of Cables (COP2)

Locating and excavating around underground cables is crucial to avoid disruption of services and prevent serious injury. Damaging or severing a cable causes electric shocks, electrical explosions, fire and even fatalities, often resulting in severe burns to the hands, face, and body. Therefore, safe excavation around cable works, no matter the voltage, is essential to ensure the safety of everyone involved and to keep the project on track.

This certification delivers the necessary skills, knowledge, and understanding when working with buried cables and carrying out safe excavations.

With a mix of practical and theory-based exercises and tutorials, learners will cover manufacturer and general knowledge and awareness of buried cables. In addition, they’ll participate in practical activities to learn best practices and operating methods to highlight the dangers involved when undertaking excavation work around cable networks. 

The course reflects national standards and industry best practices and is fully accredited in line with regulations. In addition, choose to learn with Totally Training, learners benefit from our custom-built training facilities and customer-first approach.
 

Our occupationally and technically-experienced tutors coach learners on this course, completing the session with a practical observation and short answer question paper. Learners must pass the assessment to successfully achieve certification.

This training is essential for workers to understand excavation around cable networks. Learners will review legal requirements, ensure safety compliance, and understand procedures, appropriate documentation and classifications.

The course content includes:

• Risk assessments for excavation works
• Site location details and documentation
• Identifying cable routes and encroachment lines
• Distribution Safety Rules.
• Approved cable location devices and how to use them
• Selecting the appropriate PPE for the works
• When and where to use different types of tools
• Cable identification
• Safe excavation procedures
• Understanding electrical utility drawings

At the end of the training, successful learners will:

• Demonstrate a practical use of the plans/1:500 drawing
• Correctly identify excavation equipment
• Identify different types of electrical mains cables
• Understand their responsibilities as Team Leaders/Supervisors
• Document information before excavation
• Identify cable routes and use of encroachment lines
• When and where to use tools
• Safe Excavation procedures

On successfully completing the course, learners will achieve certification.

This Safe Excavation COP2 certification is for anyone working or supervising excavation work in and around the vicinity of cable systems. Successful learners on this course reduce cable damage, prevent injury, and reduce the cost of repairs and inconvenience to the general public.

This one-day comprehensive course trains learners to safely and responsibly excavate around cable networks.

At Totally Training, quality and support to our learners is priority. Totally Training provide a dedicated service to Our Clients.

Totally Training are a leading provider of health, safety, environmental and technical theory and practical training and assessment services, covering a wide range of industry sectors, working with 100s of organisations to provide quality written and delivered courses. 

Totally Training Instructors and Assessors are fully qualified and occupationally experienced and competent from industry-specific backgrounds to deliver Our qualifications, traveling nationwide to provide necessary support at all times.

Our occupationally experienced DNO/IDNO instructors and assessors have successfully trained over 10,000 learners across the DNO/IDNO training category. Delivering courses at our nationwide, industry-leading and accredited training centres and offering the very best of training standards and quality assurance. 

We have hundreds of public dates and locations nationally for DNO/IDNO Training, or can offer dedicated training for specific requirements such as on-site groups. Whatever you need, our training services help bring together the optimum mix of solutions to ensure you can apply the hierarchy of risk control most effectively. 

Although there is no pre-course requirements, industry advises that to be deemed competent as a team leader for DNOs/IDNOs, you must hold:

• New Roads and Street Works
• Emergency First Aid at Work
• Manual Handling
• Cable avoidance tools certificates

Learners should inform their tutor if they have any serious health issues, physical problems, special considerations or are taking any medication, which may create difficulties in undertaking elements of this training course.

To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07763 854 325 or email training@totally.training