Tennessee811 Magazine recently honored Allyson Horner as their Damage Prevention MVP. Horner is the general manager at Gibson County Utility District (GCUD). She has been with the gas company for more than 21 years and in September celebrated her one-year anniversary in the general manager role. She started with GCUD in 2000 as an accounting …
The late Gina Meehan-Taylor, who worked in the Canton office for Ameron Illinois, is being honored by JULIE, who is establishing a Damage Prevention Advocacy Award in her name. Gina was the public awareness supervisor for Ameron Illinois, a past member of the JULIE Board of Directors and a member of the JULIE Public Education …
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This past summer, California created a new department dedicated to stopping its strained electrical grid from causing more catastrophic wildfires. The Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (OEIS) became a standalone department, with Caroline Thomas Jacobs named director. OEIS is fleshing itself out with energy experts, analysts, engineers, inspectors and attorneys. In simplest terms, the department …
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Kleinfelder Senior Principal Professional Dennis Doherty was honored by the North American Society of Trenchless Technology (NASTT) as a 2022 inductee into the NASTT Hall of Fame. Since its founding in 2010, only 31 professionals have been recognized with this industry honor. Doherty will be formerly inducted and recognized during the 2022 No Dig Gala …
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Mississippi 811 Magazine honored 15-year damage prevention veteran Marty Turner as its Damage Prevention Champion. Turner is the manager of damage prevention for the entire five-state network of C Spire. C Spire is headquartered in Mississippi but also operates in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Marty manages both the internal and external locate requests for …
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate recently published a GPS Receiver Whitelist Development Guide and a new release of the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Integrity Library in an effort to protect against GPS spoofing. The free resources are intended to advance the design of PNT systems and increase …
The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited two Rhode Island contractors after inspectors said the companies exposed employees to cave-in and struck-by hazards in a trench over the summer. According to the report, Reyes Landscaping, Inc. and TRD Contracting LLC face $75,000 in penalties after failing to correct hazards identified …
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PHMSA’s new regulations will now cover more than 425,000 miles of gathering pipelines, designed to improve public safety, reduce threats to the physical environment, and promote environmental justice for minority populations, low-income populations, and other underserved and disadvantaged communities. The gas gathering lines typically transport natural gas from production facilities to interstate gas transmission pipelines. …
(ConstructionDrive) – Failures and inefficiencies in the country’s “811 Call Before You Dig” system are costing utility consumers $61 billion per year and increasing risk to public safety, according to a report released in November by the Infrastructure Protection Coalition (IPC). The report found that expenses were accrued most often when locate marks were destroyed, …
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