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Events
 Join us for the 2019 ORCGA Damage Prevention Symposium, February 11-13, at Chateau Laurier, Fairmont, Ottawa, Ontario.
This is a signature event for the ORCGA attracting over 265+ damage prevention management professionals and decision-makers from across Ontario, including stakeholder groups such as oil and gas, municipalities, telecommunications, emergency management, electrical transmission/distribution, engineers and provincial regulators.
Meet with colleagues to exchange industry information, focus on public awareness initiatives for damage prevention and expand stakeholder knowledge on provincial efforts to protect essential infrastructure.
Education
 The ORCGA is proud to announce that our Damage Prevention Technician courses have received Gold Seal Accreditation through the Canadian Contstruction Association.
Successful Completion of the DPT100 course earns 5 credits
Successful Completion of the DPT200 course earns 3 credits
 You are invited to demonstrate your company's innovations and expertise in front of the damage prevention and buried infrastructure industries at our upcoming symposium.
The deadline for submissions is December 13, 2019.
Guidelines for full paper submissions can be found at orcga.com/events
Ear to the Ground
Member News
 When the State of Washington implemented damage prevention legislation, the hardest part for the departments and organizations involved was determining how that legislation would be enforced. They wanted a system that helped to change people’s behaviour around buried utilities, to prevent lines from getting cut, but they wanted it focused education, rather than penalties—and above all they wanted to ensure there was no fiscal impact on taxpayers.
 Benefit Partners offers ORCGA members a mental health micro-site supporting workplace and individual mental health issues.
 We all know the proper procedures to avoid hitting an underground utility yet it constantly happens, resulting in service disruption, project delays and costly repairs for which you could be held liable. Are you digging safely?
 Source: Financial Post
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) considered creating a public utility to lower internet prices for consumers and compete with Bell, Rogers and Telus. The bank also discussed fundamental changes to how telecommunications infrastructure is regulated so what one company builds would have to be shared with all other firms, according to a briefing note prepared for CIB CEO Pierre Lavallée.
 Source: Global News
Premier Doug Ford announced the funding Friday for the Matawa communities north of Thunder Bay, Ont.
The province is making a contribution to the $69.2 million project which will begin this winter.
 Source: Job Talks Construction Ever wonder how new buildings are built in tight spaces? Aaron is a Foundation Drill Rig Operator and his crew is usually the first one on a construction site. He installs shoring walls and foundation, which other construction professionals build on top of. Aaron finds his job exciting and very well compensated.
 Source: Ontario.ca
In the lead-up to National Skilled Trades and Technology Week, Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, announced a record-level investment to support expansion of the province's Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program to include an additional 122 new programs aimed at encouraging more high school students to enter the skilled trades. It is estimated that by 2021, one in five new jobs in Ontario will be in trades-related occupations, with employers already facing a shortage of workers in key sectors.
 Source: thecrosstown.ca
With household waste, unwanted possessions and garbage are stuffed into the bin, brought to the curb, and promptly forgotten about. However, behind the scenes, there’s an army of city employees working to transport, sort, and store the waste. This process works perfectly on a small scale, but what if the project is bigger? What if, instead of a bag of garbage, the material in question was truckloads of dirt?
 Source: The Robbins Company
On Tuesday, August 13, a 6.8 m (22.3 ft) diameter Robbins Single Shield TBM accomplished an epic feat of tunneling. The unique TBM, designed to statically hold up to 20 bar pressure, had bored below the Hudson River for 3,794 m (12,448 ft) over 582 days with instantaneous penetration rates of 6 m (20 ft) per hour. The tunnel depth was a challenge, ranging from nearly 270 m (900 ft) deep where the TBM was launched in Newburgh, New York to over 180 m (600 ft) deep at the exit shaft. The water volume and pressure were also challenges.
About ORCGA
 The Tolerance Zone is the official email newsletter of the Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance. This newsletter designed to share Damage Prevention and Dig Safe info, ORCGA news, events, announcements and member-generated content. 
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