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Service Locating Checklist

by HL Mullane, from the Community

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This service locating checklist helps teams plan and verify underground utilities before excavation or maintenance work. Record job details, review provided plans, and select search methods such as electromagnetic locating, GPR for utilities or concrete, leak detection, thermal scans, and CCTV. Document areas scanned, services found, equipment used, SUI quality levels, site markings, photos, and formal handover sign offs.

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Charlottesville Utility Locating Audit
This Charlottesville Utility Locating Audit template helps supervisors and auditors review the quality and compliance of utility locate work before excavation. Assess whether tickets are active and correctly marked, verify response codes and ticket details, and confirm if areas are flagged or painted and accurate. Check the use of system maps and field drawings, documentation such as manifests, and whether the locator communicated with the excavator by phone or on site. Record site visits, determine if work should be stopped, capture explanations, take photos, and secure signatures to support safe, compliant utility locating.
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Clearvision Underground Service Locating Assessment
This underground service locating assessment checklist helps supervisors evaluate technician competency before excavation or cable identification work. It covers reading utility plans, correct marking colors, recognizing unlisted services, CAT4 locator and transmitter operation (induction clamp, direct connection, broadcast), receiver modes, prestart checks, PPE, traffic management, and site setup. It also verifies JSA and SWMS completion, hazard identification and controls, tool condition, calibration, route marking, and pilot holes. Use it to document training, sign-offs, and revalidation dates.
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Line Locating Checklist and Permit
This line locating checklist and permit helps teams plan and document safe excavation activities. It covers pre-clearing and right of way sweeps, One Call verification, use of line finding tools (such as RD8000 or RD8100), mapping and marking utilities, potholing to full ditch width, and final excavation sweeps with visual inspections and reflagging. The template also includes fields for attachable permits, calibration records, training certifications, locate tickets, photos, and ownership details of potholed lines to support compliance and site safety.
by Brandon McCurry, from the Community
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Working Around Underground Services Inspection
This workplace inspection template helps crews plan and verify safe work when excavating or stabilizing around underground utilities. It covers permits to dig, Dial Before You Dig plans, site surveys for utility indicators, use of cable and pipe locating devices, test holes and ongoing verification, surface marking of services, spotter requirements and radio communication, exclusion zones around plant, and support or protection of exposed services. Adapt the checklist to your procedures and local regulations.
by Henno Ferreira, from the Community
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Charlottesville Utility Locating Audit

This Charlottesville Utility Locating Audit template helps supervisors and auditors review the quality and compliance of utility locate work before excavation. Assess whether tickets are active and correctly marked, verify response codes and ticket details, and confirm if areas are flagged or painted and accurate. Check the use of system maps and field drawings, documentation such as manifests, and whether the locator communicated with the excavator by phone or on site. Record site visits, determine if work should be stopped, capture explanations, take photos, and secure signatures to support safe, compliant utility locating.

by Paul Richardson, from the Community

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Clearvision Underground Service Locating Assessment

This underground service locating assessment checklist helps supervisors evaluate technician competency before excavation or cable identification work. It covers reading utility plans, correct marking colors, recognizing unlisted services, CAT4 locator and transmitter operation (induction clamp, direct connection, broadcast), receiver modes, prestart checks, PPE, traffic management, and site setup. It also verifies JSA and SWMS completion, hazard identification and controls, tool condition, calibration, route marking, and pilot holes. Use it to document training, sign-offs, and revalidation dates.

by Joseph Stevens, from the Community

20+

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Line Locating Checklist and Permit

This line locating checklist and permit helps teams plan and document safe excavation activities. It covers pre-clearing and right of way sweeps, One Call verification, use of line finding tools (such as RD8000 or RD8100), mapping and marking utilities, potholing to full ditch width, and final excavation sweeps with visual inspections and reflagging. The template also includes fields for attachable permits, calibration records, training certifications, locate tickets, photos, and ownership details of potholed lines to support compliance and site safety.

by Brandon McCurry, from the Community

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Working Around Underground Services Inspection

This workplace inspection template helps crews plan and verify safe work when excavating or stabilizing around underground utilities. It covers permits to dig, Dial Before You Dig plans, site surveys for utility indicators, use of cable and pipe locating devices, test holes and ongoing verification, surface marking of services, spotter requirements and radio communication, exclusion zones around plant, and support or protection of exposed services. Adapt the checklist to your procedures and local regulations.

by Henno Ferreira, from the Community

20+

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Service Locating Checklist

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