Novinium®, a supplier of underground electrical cable rejuvenation products to electric utilities including a new product to prevent manhole events, is pleased to announce it has been awarded the Gold Shovel Standard (GSS) for improving public safety and the integrity of vital buried infrastructure. GSS,a non-profit organization, believes that greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried-asset operators, locators and contractors is essential to drive continuous improvement and vital to ensure increasingly safe working conditions and communities. GSS is an ambitious effort driven by industry leaders, including contractors and locators, to create fair and transparent metrics for damage prevention similar to other safety metrics (LTIR, EMR, TRIR, DART, etc.). Novinium was awarded the GSS standard as its technologies reflect industry best practices being used to rejuvenate electrical cable vital for electrical utility infrastructure. Novinium’s technology allows damaged electrical cable to be repaired and rejuvenated without excavation. According to GSS, excavation work damages an underground utility line every six minutes in the US.
“We are very pleased to have been awarded the Golden Shovel standard as we are committed to being a part of the safety and well-being of America’s electrical infrastructure, says Glen Bertini, CEO of Novinium.
More information about Novinium can be found at www.novinium.com.