Support Gold Shovel Standard

To achieve our goals by 2025, we need support to:

Increase certifications to drive down the frequency of line strikes to underground infrastructure by 50%.
Engage a majority of North American municipalities, and certify them, so they rely on GSS metrics when hiring, establishing or renewing franchise rights and offering permits.
Network to create more than 100 Gold Shovel Standard Communities in North America.
Advocate for 75% of insurance companies to use GSS-supported metrics when establishing policies for excavators or locators.

Donate now, if you:

Share our vision of a safer North America
Support the use of standardized metrics to measure damage prevention performance for all stakeholders
Believe in promoting greater transparency in performance
Support universal participation in the one-call process

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Gold Shovel Association
2307 South Rural Road
Tempe, AZ 85282

The Gold Shovel Association is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
EIN# 81-4421248

The Need For Standardized Metrics

The Need For Standardized Metrics

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.

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Third-Party Damage Reductions and Communities

Third-Party Damage Reductions and Communities

“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.

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Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Safety Management Systems (SMS)

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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