Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Make the call before digging underground

Annual contractor safety breakfast held at the Heritage Inn

Workers load up their plates at the Contractor Safety
Awareness Association (CSAA) and the Saskatchewan
Common Ground Alliance (SCGA) contractor safety
breakfast at the Heritage Inn on March 27, 2014.
 Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy



Calling first before digging will save lives.

“If you hit a pipeline, if you’re still alive you’re lucky, but you’ll still have a cost associated with that repair,” said Bev Graham, public awareness co-ordinator with Spectra Energy. “It’s basically to save lives because you don’t want to hit any underground pipelines or utilities.”

Spectra Energy is one of the pipeline companies under the umbrella organization, the Saskatchewan Common Ground Alliance (SCGA), that help put on contractor safety breakfasts. The first breakfast this year of 29 towns and cities in Saskatchewan was at the Heritage Inn in Moose Jaw on Thursday morning.

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