Digging Awareness - Gold Shovel Standard Manual
Version 1.0 of the Digging Awareness - Gold Shovel Standard Manual is now available. The content and organization of this manual closely follows Locate Management Institute’s online Gold Shovel Standard Digging Awareness course and can be used as a reference for the course.
The content and organization of this manual closely follows Locate Management Institute’s online Gold Shovel Standard Digging Awareness course and can be used as a reference for the course.
The course and this manual are based upon the Gold Shovel Standard with the goal of “… improving workforce and public safety and the integrity of vital buried infrastructure. GSS believes that greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried-asset operators, locators and contractors is essential to drive continuous improvement, and vital to ensure increasingly safe working conditions and communities.”
Gold Shovel Standard has a vision of a safer North America. GSS seeks to create an environment where all excavators demonstrate exemplary caution around buried infrastructure, all locators demonstrate top-tier performance in locating buried infrastructure, and where both can be recognized and rewarded for their superior performance.
The course developed by Locate Management Institute has been assessed and is endorsed by the Gold Shovel Standard.
*Please Note: this manual is a pdf only download!
