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Horizontal Directional Drilling Machines provide state-of-art
solutions for developing subsurface piped networks in
several inaccessible/Sensitive locations where open cut pipe
laying is not feasible/advisable. This inaccessibility in
turn leads to working under direction & dimensions
constraints and mistakes are costly beyond job and may lead
to disruption of public utility. Further such machines,
being sophisticated and state-of-art may also get subjected
to stresses beyond their design capacities if handled
improperly. The obvious outcome will be damages to machines
of varying degrees. The need therefore is to put structure
and regulate operations of drilling machines and permit the
operations only by the qualified persons.
Competency standards for Qualifications of operators are
proposed in this document. Persons desirous of operating
these machines need to display the minimum qualifications in
order to handle cable and pipe installation successfully and
reliably. Indian Society for Trenchless Technology, the apex
organization to promote the application of Trenchless
Technology under its Trenchless Technology Workers
Vocational Qualification Project is conducting this process
in India and other South Asian Nations.
Any operator of these machines needs to undertake the
prescribed competency tests at defined intervals to get the
certification as a qualified driller. At no point of time
any machine owner/operator should permit non-certified or
persons with expired certificates to operate the drilling
machines.
Through the documents detailed
below, various aspects like Certification details,
Vocational Qualification Standards for HDD operators,
Syllabus for testing and the HDD Driller Standards Committee
Members are discussed.
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