[What does damage prevention mean to you?] Damage prevention means that we are keeping people safe. We are protecting the infrastructure and the environment, and we’re collaboratively working with everyone to understand the importance of calling 8-1-1 or connecting with 8-1-1 before you do that.
[How do you collaborate with others to prevent damages?] So, we collaborate by participating in events, meetings. We conduct, facilitate, and organize events, safety events, and we work closely with all of our stakeholders in the industry, people in the industry, with meetings and trainings and anything that we can do to help to work together to spread the message.
[How have you seen the industry come together to improve damage prevention?] So together we see us working on solutions, coming up with problem-solving ways to solve problems and issues that change over time, and we see in the industry new excavators and contractors that come into our state, and we’re working together on how to connect with them and how to work with them in damage prevention. So, it’s all about networking and building those working relationships.
[Complete this sentence: "Damage prevention is ..."] Damage prevention is connecting, networking, and collaborating to prevent damages to underground utilities.
I am damage prevention.
