1. Gas Safety and Excavating: What you need to know Presented by the BC Safety Authority

2. The BCSA: Who We Are

3. What We Do Amusement RidesElevating DevicesPassenger RopewaysGas Systems Electrical EquipmentRefrigerationBoilers & Pressure VesselsRailways

4. BCSA and WorkSafeBC WorkSafeBC is dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of this province. We work with British Columbians to enhance the safety of technical systems, products, equipment and work.

5. Finding the Regulations Sections 38-49 of the Gas Safety Regulations govern excavation work

6. Regulations Summarized –If you are going to break ground, contact the gas company or its agent (BC One Call) a few days before beginning work to request gas line location information in the area

7. Regulations Summarized cont’d –Don’t break ground until you have a plan, surface staking or surface marking, and keep the markers visible –Hand dig to expose the location of gas lines; don’t probe with pointed tools –Immediately contact the gas company if the lines are not placed according to the plan

8. Regulations Summarized cont’d –If you are planning to blast near a gas installation, contact the gas company 3 business days prior

9. Regulations Summarized cont’d Don’t damage the installation, protective wrapping, or cathodic protection devices Thoroughly tamp backfill Support the gas line so it will stay in line and grade

10. Act if you damage a gas line –Extinguish flames or ignition sources –Warn anyone in affected the premises, and advise them to evacuate if they smell gas –Call 911 (police and fire department) –Call the gas company –Warn traffic, vehicles and pedestrians

11. Because you don’t want this

12. Call the gas company if you –expose any bell and spigot joints, mechanical couplings, valves or line insulators - hit a line – even if no gas escapes - expose more than 3 meters of gas line

13. And call if you damage insulators, test wires, sacrificial anodes, anode beds, rectifier wires or other cathodic protection devices you damage protective wrapping on a gas line

14. You don’t want this to be you

15. If you don’t comply with Regulations Enforcement tools BCSA may use include –Compliance Orders –Discipline Orders –Monetary Penalties So know the regulations and act safely!

16. Who to contact BC Safety Authority www.safetyauthority.cawww.safetyauthority.ca Underground Utility Awareness Workshop (Electrical Industry Training Institute Ltd.) http://www.eiti.bc.ca/safety/workplace_safety/sft-150.html http://www.eiti.bc.ca/safety/workplace_safety/sft-150.html Heavy Equipment Training & Evaluations Operators Training School http://www.operatorstraining.comhttp://www.operatorstraining.com BC Common Ground Alliance www.commongroundbc.cawww.commongroundbc.ca BC One Call www.bconecall.bc.cawww.bconecall.bc.ca Terasen Gas www.terasengas.comwww.terasengas.com