This wallet card is a safety reminder card that excavators can keep with them on the job site. It highlights the five steps for safe excavation and the color codes for locator marks. The card also has a QR code for the National Grid e-SMARTworkers website which provides additional safety information, as well as a QR code for the Dig Safe ticket status look up (NE), Dig Safely NY ticket status look up (UNY) or New York 811 ticket status look up (DNY).Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): New England, Upstate New York, Downstate New YorkDate published: July 2021Project: 13235 Product: 89645 (NE), 89630 (UNY), 89640 (DNY)Download PDFs: New England Upstate New York Downstate New York
A four-panel brochure that explains how public officials and excavators can work with National Grid to assure that excavations do not encroach upon and damage vulnerable cast iron gas mains. Describes the two types of encroachment (undermine and parallel) and how to prevent them.Audience: Public officials and excavatorsRegion(s): AllDate published: November 2023Project: 14445 Product: 43390 Download PDF
This mailer supplements National Grid’s annual pipeline public awareness program (PPAP) Excavator Baseline mailing with messages that address knowledge gaps identified through research with this audience. Tips focus on 811 notification and gas leak recognition and response. Includes high-impact photos to increase awareness of specific natural gas leak warning signs. The mailer includes a chart with state-specific 811 wait times to help excavators schedule their 811 notification and subsequent excavation start date; this chart is designed to be detached and saved for reference.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): New England, Upstate New York, Downstate New YorkDate published: December 2019Project: 11853 Product: 97730 (NE), 97735 (UNY), 97725 (DNY)Download PDFs: New England Upstate New York Downstate New York
This postcard was sent to excavators in Massachusetts and New York, encouraging them to enroll in the new online Natural gas safety course for excavators.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): AllDate published: January 2024Project: 14192 Product: 97880 Download PDF
National Grid state-specific, step-by-step checklists to help prevent dangerous and costly damage to underground natural gas pipelines and other utilities.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): Massachusetts, Upstate New York, Downstate New YorkDate published: November 2023Project: 14419 Product: 97640 (MA), 97615 (NY)Download PDFs: Massachusetts New York
A 5x7″ Dig Safe card about contacting 811 before digging.Audience: Excavators and affected publicRegion(s): MassachusettsDate published: April 2024Project: 14620 Product: 97940 Download PDF
National Grid state-specific, step-by-step foldable checklists to help prevent dangerous and costly damage to underground natural gas pipelines and other utilities.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): Massachusetts, Upstate New York, Downstate New YorkDate published: October 2024Project: 14990 Product: 97915 (MA), 97920 (NY)Download PDFs: Massachusetts New York
A flyer for third-party professionals working near buried utility lines that promotes National Grid’s online excavator safety course, with QR codes that direct workers to the course on the e-SMARTworkers website. The flyer includes talking points for Stakeholder Engagement Specialists, including key course highlights and an outline of the safety material.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): AllDate published: October 2024Project: 14999 Product: 97935 Download PDF
A wallet card for workers that has a QR code that takes them to the National Grid natural gas safety course for excavators on the e-SMARTworkers website. The card also has a place for registered users to write their login credentials for their e-learning courses.Audience: ExcavatorsRegion(s): AllDate published: September 2024Project: 17103 Product: 97930 Download PDF
Annual pipeline public awareness program (PPAP) safety mailer distributed by National Grid to more than 120,000 excavator stakeholder organizations in the utility’s gas service counties. Mailer complies with API Recommended Practice (RP) 1162. Covers natural gas pipeline purpose and reliability, potential gas hazards and prevention measures undertaken, damage prevention, leak/damage recognition and response, one-call requirements, pipeline locations and sources of additional information. A detachable visor card provides tips for convenient job site reference on safe excavation, gas leak warning signs and leak response.Audience: Third-party excavatorsRegion(s): Gas service counties in Massachusetts, Downstate New York and Upstate New YorkDate published: May 2024Project: 14206Product: 97685 (MA), 97687 (DNY), 97686 (UNY)Download PDFs: Massachusetts Downstate New York Upstate New York
