Mission: This committee coordinates efforts in SAFE DIGGING Practices and does so by holding the Lester Feathers Damage Prevention Award every year at the Annual Conference.
Each year at the Annual Conference in March we award the prizes for the Golden Backhoe and Lester Feathers awards. Our Safety Committee always wants to make this presentation exciting and fun. In past years we have done skits to relay the damage prevention message. We are always looking for new ideas to carry us into the future. What would you like to see in the near future? Please submit ideas to the safety committee chair.
***December 2021- Donnie Murphy who has led the Safety Committee for more than 7 years has retired and turned the reigns over to Brett Brugh with Online Locating Services and Roy Rogers with Blount Constructioin. The Spring 2025 Annual conference will be held at the Westin Jekyll Conference location scheduled for Tuesday March 25 – March 28, 2025.
Each year the GUCC Safety Committee promotes safe digging practices throughout the State of Georgia. The Golden Backhoe winner can be from contracting companies of all types, municipalities, gas companies, electrical companies and water/sewer companies and etc., this list goes on. This Award is not limited to a chosen few. Anyone person and or crew/company that digs can qualify for this exemplary award. The nomination forms are filled out and submitted to the GUCC Safety Committee Chairman, at the end of August of each nominating year. From this list, one company and or crew is chosen as a winner of the Golden Backhoe Award from each D.O.T. Regions. Out of these 7 D.O.T. Regions of the Golden Backhoe Winners, The” Lester E. Feathers Damage Prevention Award” is chosen and is awarded to the crew/company that has outshined the others and has gone that one step further to make sure they maintained a high level of safety throughout the year in keeping their men and women safe.
The Safety Committee announces the winners of the Golden Backhoe Award and the Lester E. Feathers Damage Prevention Award with a creative program that presents the winners to an audience of the conference attendees. We recognize the winner from each region and applaud their hard work in damage prevention. These awards are one of the highlights of the Annual Conference.
2019 Safety Winners
DOCUMENTS
2015-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx
2015-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx 2015 Golden Backhoe Winners and Pictures Download |
2016-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx
2016-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx 2016 Golden Backhoe Winners and Pictures Download |
2017-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx
2017-Golden-Backhoe-Winners-and-Pictures.docx 2017 Golden Backhoe Winners and Pictures Download |
2024_golden_backhoe_application-main.pdf
2024_golden_backhoe_application-main.pdf Open | Download |
Lester-Feathers-Award-Winners-Updated-2016.doc
Lester-Feathers-Award-Winners-Updated-2016.doc Lester Feathers Award Winners 2016 Download |
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Brett Brugh – Chairman
On-Line Locating Services (OLS).
200 Rope Mill Pkwy, Ste 3.
Woodstock, GA 30188
770-668-4572 (c)
bbrugh@onlinels.com
Roy Rogers– Co-Chair
Blount Construction Company Inc.
678-697-9325
roy.rogers@blountconstruction.com