Safe excavation takes all of us.
Reliable locating depends on well-trained people, clear locate instructions, and accurate mapping information.
Nulca brings field experience to training standards and the industry decisions that shape safer excavation. Find locating services, explore the issues, and learn how to take part.
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The Ticket Is Not the Work
Nulca's state legislative agenda: four reforms that make a ticket a real unit of work, bring field knowledge into 811 rulemaking, improve facility records and make 811 coverage limits clear.
Improve the conditions behind reliable locating
Training, contracts, the 811 system, facility records, and collaboration all affect the work in the field. These are the issues Nulca works to improve.
Explore all five prioritiesElevate the Profession
Support the people responsible for finding what cannot be seen.
Reform the Business Model
Quality has to be supported in the contract.
Modernize the 811 System
Make every ticket a clearer description of the work.
Demand Data Integrity
You cannot reliably locate what you do not know is there.
Build the Coalition
See the whole system. Solve the whole problem.
Make your organization's work more visible and its voice heard.
Membership connects locating companies and organizations serving the profession with industry conversations, a place to share practical experience, and a directory where others can find them.
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Safer excavation depends on locating companies, facility owners, excavators, trainers, and other stakeholders working through shared challenges.
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