The Power of Safe Digging
By: Ken Gilmore, Alabama Power Company Alabama Power Company is impacted by the Underground Damage Prevention State Law in two very important ways: as an excavator and as an underground facility operator. Not only are we digging trenches, installing new anchors, and...
OHIO811 Welcomes Oil & Gas Producers
OHIO811 is pleased to welcome new members transitioning from OGPUPS. In mid-September, the Ohio Utilities Protection Service (O.U.P.S.), in collaboration with the Ohio Oil and Gas Association (OOGA) and the Ohio Gas Producers Underground Protection Service (OGPUPS),...
Keeping the Lights On
By Roger Cox, President, ACTS Now, Inc. Even after all these years of flying across the country, I’m still fascinated by the millions of city lights that appear on the horizon about the same time as we’re told to put our seats and trays in the locked and upright...
New OHIO811 team member dreams big in sharing the core message
By Michael Downes, 811 Magazines OHIO811 continues to increase outreach to excavators and the general public and their newest hire looks to contribute toward the goal of reaching every resident in Ohio. Jeff Kursman, senior director of external operations joins an...
2018 Alabama 811 Damage Prevention Summit
The 2018 Alabama Damage Prevention Summit broke attendance records and raised the bar for damage prevention events in upcoming years. This year’s event proved to be successful for exhibitors and attendees. Participation in sessions was at an all-time high, the exhibit...
Arkansas 811 Readership Survey
Recently the Arkansas 811 Magazine team hired a third-party consulting group to conduct an online readership survey. The link to the survey was emailed to approximately 1,000 recipients of the 811 Magazine whose email addresses had been collected. The survey has now...
NM811 continues enhanced outreach to industry, individuals
By Michael Downes 811 Magazines With a state as large and geographically diverse as New Mexico, it’s sometimes difficult to reach each industry and resident with a consistent and powerful message. That challenge has been taken up by New Mexico 811 Executive Director...
Electric Co-op Breaks Safety Records and Shares Its Secrets
By Billy Gibson, Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives It’s not every day that an auditorium full of general managers gets taken to task. But Kenny Marvin had a strong message to deliver to top executives at the recent annual meeting of the Association of...
