
LinesearchbeforeUdig (LSBUD) Digging Up Britain Report
The UK’s Safe Digging Community Has Never Been Stronger
Digging up Britain 2023, the UK’s safe digging industry report, is back for its sixth edition, documenting the latest trends, hot topics and data from all the groundwork taking place across the UK last year.
This must-read and powerful document has been designed to help all those engaged in excavation work learn more about the risks and then reduce utility strikes.
Following the uncertainty of the past two years, 2022 heralded a ‘digging boom’. The country returned to some form of normality and for another consecutive year the safe digging community as a whole has continued to grow with over 3.75 million search enquiries on LSBUD’s portal for underground pipes and cables in 2022. This equates to an extra 384,072 searches being made; a 12 percent increase on the previous year which itself was a record year.
The report reiterates the ‘safe digging for all’ message, and highlights who was digging, where they were digging and why they were digging. It also looks at the challenges being posed by the Geospatial Commission and the water sector.
Finally, the report continues to remind those remaining network operators of the benefit of sharing their data, and those doing the digging that the more people that search, the safer we stay as a nation.
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