Safety Shovel Specifications
Excavation Spotters Shovel
Prevent Harmful Asset Strikes
1. General System Features
The Safety Shovel is designed to be a supportive tool to protect workers from harmful events that cause human and infrastructure risk.
Although best endeavours try to prevent infrastructure and human harm, inaccurate records cause risk that needs to be minimalized.
The Safety Shovel provides the ideal real-time detection of metal and power subsurface. It allows for detecting metallic objects including cables, pipes (water, gas, electric etc.) and electrified cables under the ground.
This tool is ideal for the prevention of harmful asset strikes.
1.1 System Characteristics
| Item | Feature | |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 3.5kg (7.7pound) | |
| Length | 1.59m (5’f 2’in ) | |
| Shovel Head Dimensions | 280 x 210mm (11x 8.26 in) | |
| Metal LED | Green Flashing | |
| EMF LED | EMF LED Range Sensitive (Yellow/Red) | |
| Battery Life | 16+ hours (See note 1) 5 hours (Full Charge) | |
| Battery Recharge time | 8 hours max | |
| Sleep mode activated | 10 minutes of inactivity | |
| IP Rating | Designed for IP 67 | |
| connectivity | customise settings | Phone connection ability |
Note 1: Battery life is dependent on the detection frequency of metallic and EMF events. Stated battery life is an estimate of normal field activities. Safety Shovel operators need to utilise the Safety Shovel validation tool to ensure accurate determination is achieved.
1.2 Metal Detection Characteristics
Metallic Type Distance (mm)
Lead 0-300
Steel 0-300
Aluminum 0-300
Cast metal 0-300
Copper 0-250
Note 1: Metals purity and density may vary detector sensitivity
1.3 EMF Detection Characteristics
Note 1: AC current may vary detection of EMF