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ATCO – An Investment in Safety and Damage Prevention Jun 29, 2022

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ATCO’s natural gas system in western Canada is vast. 41,000 kilometres of distribution pipe; 9,000 kilometres of transmission pipe; through 300 communities and serving 1.2 million customers.

The responsibility to keep that infrastructure safe rests on a team led by Iain Stables.

In this episode Mike and Iain talk about the tools and programs ATCO uses today for each distribution and transmission, some of its homeowner safety programs, and some of the company’s history as one of the first in Alberta to launch a damage prevention program.

Guest: Iain Stables

Supervisor, Damage Prevention at ATCO Pipelines and Liquids.
Link to ATCO Safety web page https://gas.atco.com/en-ca/safety.html

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Proposing New Damage Prevention and Safety Legislation Jun 01, 2022

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Utility Safety Partners (formerly Alberta One-Call) is proposing comprehensive provincial damage-prevention legislation for buried and above-ground utilities in Alberta. Currently, only the Canada Energy Regulator’s (CER) Damage Prevention Regulations and the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) Pipeline Rules require mandatory registration with Utility Safety Partners.
We want all organizations in Alberta that own or operate buried or above-ground energy and utility infrastructure to register with Utility Safety Partners – a certified and trusted communication service and notification centre that ensures one call or click is all that is needed to avoid human risk and interruptions to important services in our economy.
We need your help to make this proposed legislation successful. Visit our microsite and provide your comments before the end of June in the public comments form.
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A Look at the New CCGA Best Practices 4.0 May 18, 2022

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It’s been hard work by a lot of people to get to 4.0

The Canadian Common Ground Alliance is publishing the newest version of its national harmonized Best Practices.

But what exactly are best practices? Are they enforceable? And if they aren’t, what’s the point in having them? Turns out there are multiple, valuable, points to be made.

Guests
Gordon Campbell, Chair CCGA Best Practices Committee
Gordon.campbell@rogers.com

Sher Kirk, Vice-Chair CCGA Best Practices Committee
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Download Best Practices 4.0 from the CCGA website.

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The Life of a Utility Safety Partners' Goodwill Ambassador May 04, 2022

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Click Before You Dig and always ask yourself Where's The Line?
These are two of the core safety messages featured over and again by Utility Safety Partners. They need to be. They need to be more than messages - they need to be human habit.
To that end Utility Safety Partners engages Goodwill Ambassadors in different areas of the province to make that human connection with people. To make the messages stick.
In this episode Mike talks with the three Ambassadors out there shaking hands right now listening to their experiences and how people are responding.
Guests:
Mark Bradley
Jon Van Domselaar
Terry Emslie
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The Success of Utility Safety Partners' Social Media Efforts Apr 20, 2022

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Every brand needs to have a presence on social media in 2022. For safety organizations, it can be a tough sell. It’s difficult to draw followers and engage audiences.

But Utility Safety Partners has perhaps the strongest social media following of its peers.

Why so many Likes? Why so many followers?

In this episode, hosted by guest host Doug Downs, the President of Utility Safety Partners, Mike Sullivan, explains the process step by step. He explains there was actually some opposition internally to dedicating resources to social media planning but years later, it’s paid dividends.

Guest: Mike Sullivan, President Utility Safety Partners

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Saskatchewan Contractor’s Dig Safe Breakfasts: Part IV of Groundbreakers Series Apr 06, 2022

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Saskatchewan has the recipe. For the past 30+ years they’ve been holding contractor breakfasts in various parts of the province promoting safety and safe digging.

That’s wouldn’t seem to be a unique recipe except… THEY WORK! Most Associations and Organizations would need to be honest the various breakfasts they’ve tried to make successful inevitably, fade away. Lack of interest, better things to do.

Not in Saskatchewan.
Before COVID broke out they were holding 30 breakfasts a year. In 2022 the in-person breakfasts are back.

Guests:
Shannon Doka, Executive Director Saskatchewan Common Ground Alliance
Jason Matity, SaskPower
Click here to find out more about the Saskatchewan Dig Safe Breakfasts.

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Ready to Rescue: Part III of Groundbreakers Series Mar 23, 2022

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Natural disasters, accidents or incidents or the skill of saving someone's life when seconds really matter. How many of us are comfortable performing that function and how many know how?
In this new segment of our Groundbreakers Series, Host Mike Sullivan looks at those "Ready to Rescue." And showcases a new and interactive platform designed to help stimulate and educate the frontline heroes of tomorrow.
Learn more about the Rescue Exhibit at Telus Spark
https://www.sparkscience.ca/rescue
Guest Kyle Corner, Director Creative Experience, Telus Spark
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The Origin of the Common Ground Alliance – Ground Breakers Part II Feb 23, 2022

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Ground Breakers.

In this episode host Mike Sullivan talks to Bob Kipp, a pioneer for damage prevention. It was Bob who started the Common Ground Alliance in the United States in the summer of 2001 – an idea that caught on and spread quickly throughout North America.

For such a great idea, it was anything but an easy sell in the beginning. Kipp shares how supporters managed to overcome opposition as the Alliance was forming, including navigating the inevitable “competing interests”

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Our Electric Future - Ground Breakers Part I Jan 26, 2022

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This episode begins a new series called Ground Breakers.

They are the originators, the ones who pioneer or innovate in a way that others seek to replicate. They lead, they make growth and improvement possible for the benefit of our society. Ground Breakers pierce the resistance of ideation, habit, and custom to change the way things are done.
In this episode host Mike Sullivan talks to Jana Mosley of ENMAX Power. The power company transmits and distributes electricity to customers throughout Alberta.
As President, Jana leads the work that keeps power moving and the company growing. She talks about the epochal shift to the electricity generation that’s just around the corner for our society and how ENMAX making sure the grid is ready.
For more information on how Enmax is developing the grid for the future visit this Report
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