JB Hunter Technology have been appointed the offical training organisation to develop competency based training for Nulca Locating Members. The course shall be completed by the end of December.   It is anticipated the first training sessions will  be run in February 2007 nationally.  What we envisage is that sometime in the near future, utilites will endorse […]

An invitation is extended to members and guests, to come along to the meeting on the 12th November. 2pm – City Park Hotel, 308 Kingsway, South Melbourne. We have Chris Berkery ( Jemena’s Operational Improvement Specialist) along with Scott Reid ( National Manager Asset Data Service & Asset Integrity & Risk) They will be addressing concerns and issues

Due to the feedback received from a few  members, we are doing a survey on the membership/renewal application to see how many locators have these processes in place. We shall not be making it mandatory at this time. Once we have collated this information, we shall be discussing options further with members over the next twelve

Due to workload pressures from committee members, the next scheduled meeting has been posponed.  President Mick Winterton is waiting on replies from a few enquiries. The next meeting date is now scheduled for the 1st April venue and state to be advised.    

Unfortunately we have not been able to arrange a meeting for April, I apologise for the short notice. I am currently working on a newsletter, with some articles of interest for members if anyone would like to contribute an area that other members may find interesting please submit it to me by the 14th April.

Just to let you know I have been contacted by Telstra, and they now need approval for the course content, and they shall get back to us. Will keep you all posted  

Unfortunately the contact in Telstra we had for this course, was not allowed to work in our designated area, and whilst they promised to have someone phone us back, and with myself chasing we still are yet to finalise this, but I will keep follow up on this issue. If anyone out there can assist,

The association is currently discussing the option of employing an organisation to begin work on the standards for the locating industry. If members currently have guidelines for their own business and would like to share these, this could save valuable time in getting industry standards together. Drafts and surveys will be circulated as they become