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Field safety Concept course
Kestrel Ridge Energy Services

Call Before You Dig: Ground Disturbance Refresher

A ground disturbance refresher that shows crews the one thing they can't see: the other company's pipeline under their own lease.

Learners
Kestrel Ridge field crews and equipment operators
Format
Narrated flat-illustration explainer with ground cutaways
Runtime
2:42
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The brief

On your own lease, digging up your own line feels routine. But the ground looks the same whether there's one pipe under it or three, and a scraped high-pressure line can rupture months later. The refresher needed to make the locate, approval and hand-exposure rules feel like part of the job, using distances crews can picture on site.

What learners can do after

  • Request locates at least three full working days ahead, and search 30 m beyond the dig
  • Recognise a pipeline's 30 m controlled area and when the owner's written approval is needed
  • Hand-expose any pipeline within 5 m before a machine digs
  • Keep machinery out of the last 60 cm unless the owner supervises
  • Stop, call the owner and report any contact, even with no leak

The framework

Four steps, closing on the tagline: know what's down there. The numbers that matter (30 m, 5 m, 60 cm) get the biggest type on screen.

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  1. 1

    Locate

    Click Before You Dig, three full working days ahead, and search 30 m past the dig.

  2. 2

    Approve

    Inside a pipeline's 30 m controlled area, get the owner's written approval first.

  3. 3

    Expose

    Within 5 m, find the line by hand or hydrovac. No machine within 60 cm.

  4. 4

    Stop if hit

    Any contact, even a scrape, means stop, call the owner and report it.

How we built it

One dig on Pad 7 runs the whole refresher. Kestrel Ridge's own flowline is weeping at a joint, the excavator is warmed up, and the ground looks empty. Then it slices open into a cutaway: another operator's high-pressure gas line, two metres away. Viewers see what the crew can't, and follow the locate, the controlled area, hand-exposing and the last 60 cm on a top-down site plan.

Every figure was checked against the Alberta Energy Regulator and Utility Safety Partners before scripting. It was the first module built to ADC's 26 px minimum text rule: every word meant to be read stays legible on a phone or a shared screen in a field trailer.

Framework stepTested by
  1. 1
    Locate
    Q2
  2. 2
    Approve
    Q4
  3. 3
    Expose
    Q1
  4. 4
    Stop if hit
    Q3
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See the full design process

Our Kestrel Ridge case study, The Five-Minute Pause, shows the whole map with timestamps, the design decisions, and a sample design document you can download.

Try the knowledge check

One check runs inside the video, and the other two run in the LMS quiz afterwards. In your LMS, the score is recorded automatically through SCORM 1.2.

Question 1 of 4
The locate shows a line 4 m from your dig. Can the excavator go in?

What a client would receive

  • SCORM 1.2 package with the scored knowledge check
  • 2:42 MP4 master in 1080p
  • Caption files (SRT and VTT)
  • Full transcript
  • Quiz questions and answers in an editable document

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