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This practice is currently being employed by a number of facility owners to
enhance safety and is employed when determined to be advantageous by
the owner. The use of a single locator to mark multiple facilities may provide
several advantages to both the facility and the excavating communities.
Among these advantages are:

• More responsive service to the excavation community,
• Better communication with the excavating community (fewer points of
contact),
• Improved safety due to less traffic on the road,
• Improved worker safety,

• Reduced environmental impact, and
• Maps of multiple facilities.

The use of a single locator to carry out locate requests for multiple facilities
may simplify communications, with fewer links needed between excavator
and locator.

3-5: Training

Practice Statement: Locators are properly trained and training is
documented.

Practice Description: Minimum training guidelines and practices are
adopted for locator training. These guidelines and practices include the
following:
• Understanding System Design/Prints/Technology
• Understanding Construction Standards and Practices for all Types of
Facilities
• Equipment Training and Techniques
• Plant Recognition Training
• Theory of Locating
• Daily Operations
• Facility Owner/Excavator Relationships and Image
• Workplace Safety Insurance Act and Occupational Health & Safety Act
requirements
• Understanding of company safety procedures

• Written and Field Testing
• Field Training
• Refresher Training
Documentation of all training is maintained to ensure that facility locators
have been properly trained.

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