Committees

Gold Shovel Standard has empowered a series of independent committees to create recommendations that drive public and workforce safety.

GSS could not continue to work for a safer North America without the generous and inspired help of the individuals who make up our many committees and pilot teams.

Excavation Committee

The focus of the Excavation Committee includes the damage prevention program certification requirements and process, excavation metrics, and program integrity. This committee developed the excavation metrics in use, and monitors the current state-of-the-art safety management systems, metrics usage, and practices surrounding the integrity of the GSS program requirements for excavators, and makes recommendations regarding potential improvements to the program.

Co-Chairs: Michael Robirds (mrobirds@chargeepc.com); Stuart Buhrendorf (sbuhrendorf@hallen.com)

Members: Mark Borges (mborges@prim.com); Jeff Boss JBoss@wvcc.com; Andrew Brooks (andrew.j.brooks@dominionenergy.com); Chris Dombrowicki (cdombrow@michels.us); Tom Kaczmarski (tkaczmarski@badgerinc.com); Kevin Miller (kevin.miller@millerpipeline.com); Pete Moriarty (pmoriarty@henkels.com); Steven Perkins (steven.perkins@erm.com) ;Jeffrey Schmidt (jeffrey.schmidt@mastec.com); Jemmie Wang (jemmie@bizmetrix.biz); Sage Babin (sbabin@quantaservices.com); Gus Chapman (augustus.chapman@dominionenergy.com); Mike Barringer (MBarringer@socalgas.com)

Gold Shovel Liaisons: Mel Christopher (Mel.Christopher@goldshovelstandard.org); Greg Lovett (Greg.Lovett@goldshovelstandard.org); Beth Stevens (beth.stevens@goldshovelstandard.org)

Pre-Excavation Damage Prevention Metrics Committee

Gold Shovel Standard believes that no significant reduction in damages will be achieved unless all responsible parties (owner / operators, excavators, locators) continually improve, and measurements underpin improvement.

Metrics for all stakeholders have been part of the GSS vision from the onset. The Pre-Excavation Damage Prevention Metrics Committee is tasked with establishing measurements for owner / operators and the locators that they employ.

Consistent measurements for Pre-Excavation are difficult and must be representative of the quality of services provided by in-house staff or contracted damage prevention services, and are representative of the timeliness of the services provided. Pre-Excavation metrics must also be scalable for locate companies both large and small to help them better manage their businesses.

Members: