Association
Fiche technique 34, Protéger les services publics souterrains
APSAM (Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail, secteur affaires municipales)
2004 sheet, read by the research. Hand-dig zone around locate marks.
Open the source- Consulted
- October 10, 2026
- Region
- QC
- Language
- fr
Cited by
Guides
- Building a paver or slab patio
- Building a paver walkway
- Building a paver driveway
- Building a paver pool deck
- Building a block garden wall or retaining wall
- Building outdoor block or slab steps
- Before you dig: locates, permits and property lines
- Yard drainage: slopes, downspouts, French drain, catch basin and dry well
- Grading the yard around your house
- Laying sod on good topsoil
- Automatic sprinkler system: the basics
- Low-voltage (12 V) landscape lighting
Glossary terms
What we take from it
- Keep the machine at least 1 m from each side of the marks and expose pipes and cables by hand; any hole dug in the ground counts as digging.
- APSAM keeps the machine at least 1 m from each side of the marks.
- APSAM asks to keep the machine at least 1 m on each side of the marks and to expose services by hand.
- For APSAM, any hole dug in the ground counts as digging, small excavations included.
- APSAM asks to expose services by hand within 1 m of the marks.
- For APSAM, any hole dug in the ground is digging under the safety code, including a post hole or a tree pit.
- APSAM asks to keep the machine at least 1 m on each side of the marks and to expose lines by hand or vacuum, never with the bucket.
- APSAM forbids backfilling over a damaged pipe or cable.
- Any hole dug in the ground counts as digging.
- 1 m strip exposed by hand.
- Never backfill over a damaged line.
- APSAM technical sheet 34.
- Digging near buried lines.
- 1 m strip exposed by hand on each side of the marks.
- APSAM asks that machines stay at least 1 m on each side of the marks, that lines be exposed by hand, and treats any hole dug as digging.
- APSAM treats any hole dug in the ground as digging.
- APSAM asks that machines stay at least 1 m on each side of the marks and that lines be exposed by hand.
- APSAM treats any hole dug as digging and asks that lines be exposed by hand near the marks.