BC Common Ground Alliance – Damage Prevention is a Shared Responsibility

About Us

The BC Common Ground Alliance is a non-profit organization established to lead development of consistent practices and coordination of activities to ensure the highest possible standards of worker safety, public safety and damage prevention in connection with underground infrastructure.

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What We Do

BC Common Ground Alliance is coordinating working groups to develop and deliver:

Best Practice Guidelines for Safe Excavation
Safety Recognition – City of Excellence Award
Education – Safe Digging Workshops
National level priorities
Advocation for use of the DIRT tool (statistical database of hits)
Networking and collaborating
Improving stakeholder engagement
Responding to calls for input into regulatory amendments
Circulation of relevant information regarding safety and industry practice.

Calendar of Events

Latest Posts

Education

Our Excavation Network reaches over 2,500 ground disturbers across BC…

What can you do?

Become a BCCGA Member –> BC Common Ground Alliance Membership.

Do you own or manage a utility?

When retaining utility locator services, there are three ways to ensure you choose a pro:
- Make sure they are a BCCGA member,
- They have successfully completed Locator Certification Training offered by BC Municipal Safety Association (BCMSA) or Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and/or
- They are ASTTBC Registered Utility Locator Technicians (RULT).
Require anyone excavating on your right of way to have training that complies with the BCCGA Ground Disturbance 201 Standard.
Be familiar with the CCGA Best Practices.

Do you Locate?

Attend Locator Certification Training offered by BC Municipal Safety Association (BCMSA) or Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Become an ASTTBC Registered Utility Locator Technician (RULT).
Be familiar with the CCGA Best Practices.

Do you dig?

Call or Click BC One Call at least three days before you dig!
Ensure that you have training that complies with the BCCGA Ground Disturbance 201 Standard.
Be familiar with the CCGA Best Practices.

Do you provide training?

Ensure that your courses are endorsed by BCCGA as compliant with the BCCGA Ground Disturbance 201 Standard.

The Canadian Common Ground Alliance is the voice of Canada’s Regional Partner CGAs dedicated to working toward damage prevention solutions that will benefit all Canadians. Their website is a portal to Canada’s CGA Partners and provides routine updates to the damage prevention issues of national interest the CCGA is managing on behalf of their Regional Partners.

With the generosity of Jeremy Bieber, the Canadian Common Ground Alliance offers this public service announcement for your public awareness programs to enhance public safety and the integrity of all buried utilities.