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Dial Before You Dig plan wrong - nothing we can do

We all know, (well, all should know) that the plans you get back from the FREE, Dial Before You Dig referral service, are to be used as a guide only and are not to be relied on. If you are about to start excavating on a job site, despite what underground services may or may not be shown on the DBYD plans, you still need to go through the effort to locate where every underground utility is first. And well….. let’s be honest, it is because of this very point, of the plans only being a guide, that I and 850 other qualified, Dial Before You Dig certified locators have a career in locating where underground utilities are on job sites around Australia. But, my issue is …….what do we do when we go to locate something and find where its actual location is and where the Dial Before You Dig plans have said it is are actually two different places and the plans are in fact wrong? The answer - Nothing. As in, there is no proper, systemised way for us professional service locators to let the utility companies know that the plans they are giving out through the DBYD system are wrong or have a mistake on them. Now for those of us that have been around for some time, we have generally been able to build a few connections with different people in different utility companies and we can sometimes get this info about the plans being wrong through the backdoor to the right person so that the plans can get updated. But staff at these companies do move on and then you need to try and go through the effort to set up new connections again and explain why you are doing what you are doing. And that is probably the next point to bring up here and that is the question of why am I even bringing this up? As a skilled locator, it's to my advantage for these plans to be wrong. Especially for someone like myself, who has literally got tens of thousands of hours logged in the field locating underground services and acquiring knowledge of what areas have wrong DBYD plans. There are more new companies than ever before that are getting into the locating industry, many of whom constantly try to undercut me to win work. I should be taking advantage of my knowledge of where plans are wrong, to give me a competitive advantage over these new competitors. But despite that, I'd still like to see this issue rectified. Those of you that know me, will know, I'm not in this game to crush the competition. I'm in this to protect the underground service and those that are working in their vicinity. Hell, if I wanted to crush competitors I would not be doing hundreds of videos trying to help educate and improve the industry. We need to have a centralised system where, if we see something that is incorrect on a plan, we can submit it and the right person in that utility company can get the submission and they can then do their investigation and make the changes that need to be made, if they feel they need to be made. Right now with DBYD, it's a one-way pipeline. We put the request in and the plans get sent back to us. I'd love if there was a pipeline the other way where if we have an issue or see something wrong, there is a way of getting the info back to the utility company. I don't think what I'm asking for is rocket science. In fact, Western Australia Dial Before You Dig have had this very system in place for several years now, and from what I'm told, it works smoothly and without too many issues. Unfortunately, however, the way DBYD is set up, each state is run independently, so each state would have to set up their own system, as WA has done. Or better still, the National body of DBYD could provide a system that everyone else could use, similar to how they have currently got the one main website and enquiry system that everyone uses. There would obviously have to be parameters that would need to be put in place, and rules to what is classified as wrong and what is just the way the plan is drawn up. Such as, a 2 pair cable running to a house. The plan might show it going from a pit in the street diagonally to the centre of the house site. But in fact, the cable runs from the pit, along the footpath and then right angles to the house in the middle of the block. Is this plan wrong? Well, technically yeah, but does it need updating, I'd say no, but a homeowner or even a local contractor working at the property might say yes and might submit it for review. If this happened the system could get overwhelmed with submissions. So do you maybe have the system only open to certified locators as we generally have a better understanding of what is a mistake on a plan and what is a plan just drawn very roughly. But the only issue then is, what happens in the outback where they have no DBYD certified locators available? Let's say a gu.... Damn it, unfortunately, due to the character limit Youtube has in place, I can't finish the rest of this post here. I have put the entire thing up as a blog post on our website. A link to it will be in the comment section below.