Gold Shovel Standard works to Prevent life-threatening damages, Empower field teams to operate safely, and Protect excavation crews and the public.
Learn MoreContinuous improvement and performance transparency demand standardized damage prevention measurements.
Dramatic reductions in damages to buried infrastructure requires world-class technology.
Gold Shovel Standard (GSS) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving workforce and public safety and the integrity of buried infrastructure. GSS believes that greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried-asset operators, locators and excavators is essential to drive continuous improvement, and vital to increasingly safe working conditions and communities.
Damage prevention measurements enhance and improve the safety of our workforce and the public alike.
GSS delivers world-class software to drive continuous improvement that reduces damages and increase public and workforce safety.
Damage Prevention-Safety Management Systems (DP-SMS) must be broadly adopted by all stakeholders to increase public and workforce safety.
GSS is committed to perfecting a program that provides an easy entry-point, and that drives the highest safety yields with the least ongoing impact on daily operations.
GSS Membership Specialists will integrate value-added tools into your processes, providing prompt, courteous, and professional care to ensure a seamless and rewarding experience from registration to certification.
The GSS community of damage prevention experts provide world-class damage prevention consulting to subscribers at no additional cost.
GSS tackles the most difficult challenges in the damage prevention industry with a steadfast goal to improve performance and raise the performance bar for all stakeholders.
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Dramatic reductions in the frequency of line strikes will remain elusive unless all parties continuously improve and measurements underpin continuous improvement. Standardizing the measurement process is an overdue first step to drive performance improvement and increase public and workforce safety. To achieve this ambitious plan, Gold Shovel Standard is working with balanced teams of damage prevention experts to draft, refine and broadly deploy damage prevention metrics for all stakeholders.
“Everybody’s third-party is somebody’s second-party.” Reducing line strikes associated with small excavators and third-parties persists as the top priority for all stakeholders in damage prevention. These are difficult reductions to influence, and yet they represent the single biggest risk to safety associated with excavation damage. Gold Shovel Standard Communities are novel and ambitious partnerships to attack this persistent and difficult challenge.
Increasing safety is impossible without the right tools. Gold Shovel Standard provides world-class technology to drive continuous improvement that reduces damages and increases public and workforce safety. ShovelSafe from Oropala puts damages prevention at the fingertips of business leaders, giving them the tools to drive continuous performance improvement. ShovelSafe is world-class technology for analyzing and tracking damage prevention performance.
Pursuing the industry-wide goal of zero incidents requires comprehensive, systematic use of Safety Management Systems. Pipeline and other energy companies, and along with the regulatory community have recognized the critical importance of SMS. Broad adoption of Damage Prevention-Safety Management Systems (DP-SMS), which are safety management systems specifically tailored for damage prevention is a necessary ingredient to achieve that industry-wide goal of zero incidents.
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