Calling all golfers! Join Utility Safety Partners at our inaugural charity golf tournament on September 9, 2025! This year’s tournament takes place at The Hamptons Golf Club in Calgary – a world-class members-only golf club that has hosted numerous PGA legends exhibitions, Champions Tour qualifying events, and top local amateur and professional tournaments.
As wildfires become more frequent and intense across many regions, residents living near forested areas must stay vigilant and prepared. Whether you're in a rural community or on the edge of a national park, understanding how to protect yourself, your family, and your property is critical.
Before you start any digging project—whether it’s planting a tree, building a deck, or installing a fence—it’s crucial to know what lies beneath the surface. Across North America, a standardized colour code system is used to mark underground utility lines. These coloured flags or paint markings indicate what type of infrastructure is buried below, helping prevent dangerous and costly accidents.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the Universal Colour Code:
As the ground thaws and projects spring to life across Alberta, we at Utility Safety Partners want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the thousands of homeowners who took the responsible step of submitting a locate request as the most critical part of their ground disturbance project.
Utility Safety Partners (USP) is excited to announce the release of the Damage Prevention Process – Homeowner Edition, a practical new guide designed specifically to help homeowners dig safely in their yards and on adjacent land. Developed by the USP Best Practices Committee. Learn More...
More than mapping, Geolantis.360 is an end-to-end solution that streamlines locate workflows with detailed symbology, custom forms that auto-populate, professional reports your clients want to see, and much more.
Collect geospatial metadata for underground utilities, streamline your locate projects, and reduce overhead costs with Geolantis.360.
As we say in the contact centre each year, “It’s gonna be May!” Rain or shine (but maybe more rain than usual), we were ready!
Predictably, locate volume exploded in the month of May. While we can't quite beat the Monday blues, our new and returning staff navigated the increase in call volume exceptionally. While the busiest days of the week are typically Monday’s and Friday’s we encourage everyone to go online to submit their requests or call on one of our less busy days to avoid the queue congestion and longer wait times.
Operations leaders of the four Canadian notification centres met earlier this month and committed to a renewed partnership dedicated to shared information, collaborative solutions, opportunities to use common resources and a single voice for notification centres in matters with a national scope.
Ensure compliance and safety with Ground Disturbance Level II® (In-Class). This one-day, industry-recognized course covers essential regulations, permits, and best practices—from pre-planning to execution. Certification is valid for 3 years and meets USP 201 standards. Upgrade your skills and enhance workplace safety today!
As we move full steam ahead into the 2025 digging season, many asset owners are realizing that their databases with Utility Safety Partners may not be up to date. These realizations often come when a utility must be manually added to tickets at the excavator’s request, when asset owners recognize they did not receive a request for an area where they have underground lines, or, in the worst cases, when a line is struck by excavation.
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