The stakeholder-specific accreditation criteria are established to enhance damage prevention through shared accountability. The DPI enrollment form will ask organizations to acknowledge their stakeholder criteria. Feedback on stakeholder accreditation criteria can be shared via the member Engage platform.
This accreditation group includes any organization using non-mechanized or mechanized equipment, demolition, or explosives in which earth, rock, or other material below existing grade is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced.
We will submit all known underground facility damages to DPI DIRT (Damage Information Reporting Tool) on a monthly basis.
We will report the following information to the DPI by end of month for prior month:
We have a whistleblower and stop-work authority for employees and have shared it with all affected workers (including all field laborers, supervisors, and other workers who work alongside until excavation is complete, but excluding administrative workers without field responsibilities, casual employee visitors, inspectors not associated with field work). As a participant in DPI, we commit that affected workers will be explicitly notified of management’s commitment to safe digging, and encouraged and empowered to stop work, without fear of retribution, when they observe a situation that is unsafe or in conflict with safe excavation policies, rules, or laws.
We have a corrective action procedure with root cause analysis when damages happen. This document details how our organization investigates the cause of an incident when excavation related damage occurs, and the subsequent measures taken to prevent it from happening again.
We commit to delivering annual basic awareness training for all workers on jobs with excavation, including the administration of a testing program, and maintain all training documentation.
We include the following in our annual training:
Our training includes a test on the above topics that is at minimum 15 questions.
We commit to ensuring employee compliance with all federal, state/provincial, and local laws and regulations governing excavation safety.
We commit to implementing, as practical, all applicable CGA Best Practices, even if not required by law or regulation.
Organizations that own, operate, or control the operation of an underground line/facility, including gas transmission, gas distribution, electric, telecommunications (including fiber), public works, and oil.
We will submit all known underground facility damages to DPI DIRT (Damage Information Reporting Tool) on a monthly basis.
We will report the following information to the DPI by end of month for prior month:
We have a whistleblower and stop-work authority for employees and have shared it with all affected workers (including all field laborers, supervisors, and other workers who work alongside until excavation is complete, but excluding administrative workers without field responsibilities, casual employee visitors, inspectors not associated with field work). As a participant in DPI, we commit that affected workers will be explicitly notified of management’s commitment to safe digging, and encouraged and empowered to stop work, without fear of retribution, when they observe a situation that is unsafe or in conflict with safe excavation policies, rules, or laws.
We have a corrective action procedure with root cause analysis when damages happen. This document details how our organization investigates the cause of an incident when excavation related damage occurs, and the subsequent measures taken to prevent it from happening again.
We commit to implementing, as practical, all applicable CGA Best Practices, even if not required by law or regulation.
We agree to develop, maintain, and implement written policies, procedures, or other management documents that address the following elements:
We will ensure that 811 center tickets are dispatched or cleared to the locate-and-mark entity within one hour of receipt from an 811 center.
We will participate in electronic positive response, if available within an operating state (or region/province).
Organizations that perform locates of any underground facilities in support of a locate request.
We will submit all known underground facility damages to DPI DIRT (Damage Information Reporting Tool) on a monthly basis.
Locator metrics are a work in progress. Stay tuned for future updates.
We have a whistleblower and stop-work authority for employees and have shared it with all affected workers (including all field laborers, supervisors, and other workers who work alongside until excavation is complete, but excluding administrative workers without field responsibilities, casual employee visitors, inspectors not associated with field work). As a participant in DPI, we commit that affected workers will be explicitly notified of management’s commitment to safe digging, and encouraged and empowered to stop work, without fear of retribution, when they observe a situation that is unsafe or in conflict with safe excavation policies, rules, or laws.
We have a corrective action procedure with root cause analysis when damages happen. This document details how our organization investigates the cause of an incident when excavation related damage occurs, and the subsequent measures taken to prevent it from happening again.
We commit to training all workers performing locates upon hiring and annually thereafter, maintaining all training documentation. Training is consistent with the most current CGA Best Practices 4.05 and/or Nulca Competency Standards for Locating Technicians.
We commit to ensuring employee compliance with all federal, state/provincial, and local laws and regulations governing excavation safety.
We commit to implementing, as practical, all applicable CGA Best Practices, even if not required by law or regulation.
We agree to develop, maintain, and implement written policies, procedures, or other management documents that address the following elements:
This unique accreditation group is for those organizations that play an important role in damage prevention – through a business partnership with contractors/excavators, locators, and/or facility owner/operators – but they themselves do not perform excavation (as defined below) or locates in response to locate requests received from an 811 center. If an engineering and design firm does self-perform either of these activities, they should apply for accreditation as a contractor/excavator or locator, as appropriate.
Not applicable. In the accreditation process you can request access to DPI DIRT (Damage Information Reporting Tool) account so that you can view data of organizations that you have a business relationship. Please note that organizations control who has access to their organization level DPI DIRT data. Unless it is contractually required, they do not have to share the data with you.
We commit to understand and endorse the DPI accreditation requirements for excavators, locators, and facility owners (see DPI website).
We commit to ensuring employee compliance with all federal, state/provincial, and locate laws and regulations governing excavation safety.
We commit to implementing as practical, all applicable CGA Best Practices, even if not required by law or regulation.
We commit to ensuring employee compliance with all federal, state/provincial, and locate laws and regulations governing excavation safety.