Infrastructure Resources Becomes Excavation Safety Alliance

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Aug. 1, 2023 - PRLog -- This important industry organization, Infrastructure Resources, has changed its name to Excavation Safety Alliance (ESA) to better reflect their role in the industry. ESA believes that a focus on safe excavation education initiatives helps prevent damage to buried facilities. Focusing on safe excavation spotlights the importance of safety for the people doing the digging, and helping keep people safe is the top priority of both damage prevention and safe excavation efforts.

Some of their goals are to reach new stakeholders who have not had a voice in the past and to provide different opportunities to learn about damage prevention and excavation safety. The free monthly virtual Town Halls have covered late locates, subsurface utility engineering, the cost of damages, damage investigation, One Call Laws and many more. These Town Halls give people an opportunity to talk about their challenges, improvements, successes, and potential solutions.

This ESA name connects all their initiatives:

• The Excavation Safety Conference (started in 2004)
• The annual Excavation Safety Guide (started in 2006)
• The Excavation Safety Magazine (started in 2010)
• The 811 Run (Started in 2013)
• The 811 Mudders (Started in 2014)
• Pipeline Ag Safety Alliance (started 2015)
• Locator Safety & Appreciation Week (started in 2015)
• Damage Prevention Hero (started in 2012)
• Global GPR Congress (started in 2021)
• Global Locate Masters (Started in 2022)

ESA works closely with other companies and associations to accomplish their mission to "save lives through education and collaboration".

Industry veterans think the name change is a good idea:

• This is great! Love it! - Mike Iadanza, Vice President, Mason Private Locating
• This looks to be a great step forward for your organization and I love the new branding – Tom Hall – Vice President of Business Development, KorTerra
• You're really capturing something special with those town halls – Kit Moore, Director of Business Development, Damage Prevention Solutions
• Infrastructure protection is more than dollars saved: it's about people going home at the end of the day. The new name "Excavation Safety Alliance" definitely emphasizes the protection of lives as well as facilities. - Louis Panzer, Executive Director, North Carolina 811

To learn more or watch free recordings of their Town Halls go to https://ExcavationSafetyAlliance.com