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Damage Prevention Successful Practices National Survey Results & DiggingSafely.com Ric Hinkie President, MEA (for 6 more weeks!!!). www.diggingsafely.com &. Recognize These?. Excavation Survey Results What is your #1 source of damage? Tie—Sewer/water = Road/general excavation

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  1. Damage Prevention Successful Practices National Survey Results & DiggingSafely.com Ric Hinkie President, MEA (for 6 more weeks!!!) www.diggingsafely.com &

  2. Recognize These?

  3. Excavation Survey Results What is your #1 source of damage? Tie—Sewer/water = Road/general excavation What is your #2 source of damage? Cable What is your #3 source of damage? Telephone What is your #4 source of damage? Homeowners www.diggingsafely.com &

  4. What is your most effective damage prevention tool? Local meetings with contractors Specific training for contractor workers www.diggingsafely.com &

  5. What would you like to see done to reduce damage?—2007 Study Stronger sanctions/penalties for damage Mandatory licensing or DOT OQ like qualifications Not stronger permit requirements or more utility investment/support www.diggingsafely.com &

  6. What would you like to see done to reduce damage?—2006 Study Free basic excavation training for all Municipalities should require all excavators to demonstrate qualifications State or Federal licensing of contractors www.diggingsafely.com &

  7. What are your most successful practices? 1. Focus on frequent offenders—meet with them one on one and bring in state enforcement people 2. Working more closely with One Call—helped them improve funding and they helped get more state penalties for damage. www.diggingsafely.com &

  8. More Successful Practices 3. Ongoing radio spaced to reach workers on different shifts along with print advertising 4. Use our High Voltage Safety Trailer in contractor, firefighter, and homeowner events. 5. CO since 2003 has seen 40% fewer hits. Combination of enforcement of civil penalties and more education efforts with contractors. www.diggingsafely.com &

  9. If you had a free web training site that excavators could use to learn how not to damage you system, how would you use it? --Promote it to excavators --Use the content in our local meetings --Encourage my state one-call to create a customized version www.diggingsafely.com &

  10. Everybody Knows 3rd Party Damage Is a Major Safety & Cost Issue 811 will help us get more locate calls Enhanced state One Call enforcement will get us more calls Our own promotion will get us more calls But damage will continue! What else can we do? www.diggingsafely.com &

  11. What if all excavators were trained? Not only to call…but what to do after the locate… like how not to damage our systems & what to do if they do? www.diggingsafely.com &

  12. By us—but no labor or materials costs To our common standards For free, keine geld, nada dinero, $0. We get credit with regulators & public We get data to use in Integrity Management We can customize the site to our own state’s One Call logo and requirements ($5,000 per state customizing cost) What if all excavators were trained? www.diggingsafely.com

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  18. For more information on www.diggingsafely.com Contact: ric@midwestenergy.org or call me at 612-247-6866 www.diggingsafely.com &

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