East Midlands Webinar - Linesearch BeforeUdig - Avoidance of utility strikes
Date: Monday 11 October 2021
This was an on-line event.
Topic: Regional CPD
About the event
Linesearch BeforeUdig (LSBUD) is a free to use service that any individual can use to check their works against over 90 asset owners’ utility assets. These assets include hundreds of thousands of kilometres of underground and overhead pipes and cables in the electricity, gas, high pressure fuel, water and fibre optic networks. The service processes over 3 million enquiries per annum- that’s more than one every 10 seconds.
The first part of the presentation will cover:
An overview of the LSBUD service from a user’s perspective, covering the following:
- What LSBUD is and why it exists
- The benefits of using the service
- Who can use it
- A high level summary of how to use it
- The asset owners whose networks are protected, together with what they might receive from the service
In the second part of the presentation will cover The Utility Strike Avoidance Group (USAG). This is a collaborative group of over 400 utility asset owners, industry groups and contractors that seek to ensure the highest standards of safety and best practice when carrying out work on the vital services for our homes and businesses. In particular it will help those carrying out work avoid disrupting supplies through accidental strikes on utilities in the ground.
It will cover:
- An overview of the organisation
- How people can support it
- The resources available
- The annual strike report, together with high level conclusions
About the Speaker
Richard Broome is the Managing Director of the LSBUD (Linesearch BeforeUdig) service in Great Britain helping protect over 90 asset owners’ networks by managing over 3 million third party enquiries per annum. The service, based on the One Call principle, now protects over 1,000,000km of assets across various sectors, from buried high pressure fuel pipelines less than 100km in length to electricity distribution networks covering hundreds of thousands of kilometres.
His role includes consultation and networking with a wide variety of utility asset owners as well as all types of third parties from Statutory Undertakers to private individuals and Government organisations. Duties involve business development, marketing and industry awareness, networking and technological development.
Richard is a fully qualified Chartered Surveyor, with experience across a variety of utility and property projects, including cross-country high-pressure fuel pipeline management dealing with a wide variety of third party works and major projects. Previous awards include the Pipeline Industries Guild Sir John Parker Presentation Competition and the National Joint Utilities Group Award for Avoiding Damage to Underground Assets. He leads the Data & Reporting Group of the Utility Strike Avoidance Group, producing the annual Utility Strike Report and increasing awareness of utility strikes across the UK.