Planet Underground & Staking University: Worldwide Locator Training

Planet Underground and Staking University Founder Mike Parilac provides an explanation of how locating instruments are used in the United States and gives a basic overview of the US one-call system of notification before digging.This video was produced as an introduction for some core overseas audiences for the company's newly developed Locator Certification Curriculum.

Around 25,000 individuals do utility locating in some form or another each day in the United States. About 20,000 take part in public utility locating (the one-call or 811 system), and about 5000 individuals are involved with private utility locating, SUE, engineering and surveying businesses. Where does all that utility locating data go? How is it shared? These are questions that Mike Parilac also reviews.

We are happy to share the locator training content that Planet Underground and Staking University have spent 18 months producing together, and are excited to have this valuable training curriculum made available to operators around the globe.

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Great information. I’m in Albany New York area and almost went down to Staking University Utility Locator when you were here in the fall about an hour south of me. Maybe I’ll catch you next time when you come through town. BTW we have a few M - scopes still for water locating. But use a viper mag locator now. I love it.

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Mike this is all great information. You raise an interesting point about a repository cloud for mapping information. The future may be changing about the sharing of the utility information. But liability is an issue also. I work for a municipality, we rarely give out mapping BUT when we do, we have a big stamp we put on it that says “ all information is not exact and utilities must be field verified “

[GeelongCableLocations]

Great video Mike
It's good to see how different countries around the world do damage prevention and it's interesting to see what parts you guys are the same as us and what is different and what struggles you have that we to are having when it comes to data.
Keep up the great work, regards Ben