Two industry associations focused on safety issues are combining forces.
The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a national nonprofit trade association dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near them, and the Gold Shovel Association (GSA), a nonprofit association focused on continuously improving safety by providing meaningful damage prevention certifications and standardized performance metrics, recently announced that they will be exploring establishing a new arm of CGA that will integrate GSA into the organization.The collective industry commitment of both associations will provide an opportunity to take damage prevention to the next level. Building on CGA’s best practices and foundational DIRT (Damage
