Two-and-a-half years ago, a team of subject matter experts assembled to blue-sky ideas on how to improve locating and marking in Alberta. The front-end of the process — submitting a locate request — has experienced its fair share of enhancements, like shifting from calls to clicks as well as several other procedural changes associated with self-managing the locate request process, but locating and marking, the backend of the damage prevention process, has remained largely as is. 

Exciting news from the accounting department at USP! The budget for 2025 has been approved by the board of directors and with that the annual membership fee for 2025 was created, confirmed, and emailed to our members for their 2025 budgeting purposes.

Mired in the sticky heat of July, we’ve entered the Eye of the Storm if you will; a frantic swirl of activity occurring around us, but a relative calm in our immediate vicinity. It’s hard to settle into at the outset; after the full-sprint of May and June, July’s comparative tranquility can be a bit jarring, to put it mildly. Agents have time to read! To relax! To breathe and just have some time to themselves! It truly is something, and remembering those sweet times from my stint on the frontline as a young man, I’m filled with vicarious joy that the Contact Centre gets a reprieve after pouring all their efforts into a very successful May and June!

Today, most meetings begin with a Safety Moment; a short info-bit promoting safety awareness that resonates with everyone. It could be as simple as ensuring your vehicle’s windshield washer fluid is full before a long drive or promoting enhanced awareness of school zone speed limits. There truly is an endless list of safety topics to choose from but, when you’re put on the spot to present one, you’ll often find none come to mind!

Utility Safety Partners is excited to announce our upcoming Safety Conference. Mark your calendars for April 7-8, 2025 and plan to join us at the JW Marriott ICE District in Edmonton. 

The 2025 Utility Safety Conference will kick off Dig Safe Month with educational sessions, plenary addresses, a trade show, training options, and more!

Most organizations have a transparency approach to communication, which is a passive method of communication. We post information somewhere public, or we send out communication about what we are doing and what our plans are and rely on the affected stakeholders to review what is posted and educate themselves. While this method is effective at reaching a large audience, it is incomplete from a communications perspective.

Eleven years ago, Enbridge Pipelines teamed up with Alberta One-Call Corporation to unveil the biggest ClickBeforeYouDig sign in the world — right on one of Enbridge’s tanks at the Sherwood Park terminal facing Baseline Road and Anthony Henday.