[What does damage prevention mean to you?] It means that excavators and anybody who’s going to be digging or doing any kind of excavation into the ground, they can do it safely. And our mission in Florida is to make Florida the safest place in the world to do it.
[How do you collaborate with others to prevent damages?] We always have safety meetings every week. And we get together and have everybody collaborate and give ideas on what we can be doing better to make Florida the safest place in the world.
[How have you seen the industry come together to improve damage prevention?] I’ve been doing this for 18 years. And I can see improvement every year that we do this.
[Complete this sentence: "Damage prevention is..."] Damage prevention is the number one goal that we should have in this industry for all the different stakeholders. For the utility owners, for the ones doing the excavation, and that keeps everybody safe.
I am damage prevention.
