Proposed Administrative Monetary Penalty regime - Tell us what you think! Survey

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1.Please help us understand who you are and what you do. Select all that apply:

I am an underground infrastructure owner (Member)

I am an Excavator

I am both an underground infrastructure owner and an excavator

I am a Locate Service Provider

I work in the field the majority of the time

I work in the office the majority of the time

I am a manager

I am a worker

I am an executive

Other (please specify)

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2.The Government has proposed a regulation that would give Ontario One Call the responsibility to issue Administrative Monetary Penalties (fines) for contraventions to the Act and regulations. With that in mind, please select the statements you agree with (please select all that apply):

Excavators should be fined for digging without locates.

Excavators should NOT be fined for digging without locates.

Underground infrastructure owners should be fined for not providing locates in 5 business days

Underground infrastructure owners should NOT be fined for not providing locates in 5 business days

Other (please specify)

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3.Late locates are a significant industry issue. Delayed excavation has a material financial impact on building projects. In your view, at what point does a late locate impose a significant financial hardship on excavators:

Locates delivered between 6 and 10 business days

Locates delivered between 11 and 15 business days

Locates delivered in 16+ business days

Other (please specify)

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4.Delayed excavation due to late locates has a financial impact on excavators. How much of a financial impact does this impose on your company daily?

Other (please specify)

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5.The locate request and notification system is managed by Ontario One Call. It relays dig information to underground infrastructure owners so that they can provide a locate within 5 business days. Ontario One Call has developed an education program to stop locate abuse and non-compliance and create experts in requesting and managing locates called the Professional Locate Administrator Course (“PLAC”). Have you or someone in your organization taken PLAC?

Yes

No

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6.If you have answered "No" to the previous question, do you plan on taking the course given the introduction of the new regulation?

Yes

No

If you don't plan to take PLAC, why?

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7.Ontario One Call’s web portal, designed to assist excavators in placing a locate request, is effective in facilitating a locate for safe excavation.

Yes

No

If you have answered no, please specify what you find ineffective

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8.Have you ever submitted a request for work which did not start within 30 calendar days of your submission?

Yes

No

If yes, why?

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9.If a locator education program was available, would you hire a professional licensed locator from this program to deliver locates?

Yes

No

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10.We understand that access to professional locators is a challenge for many organizations. Much work is being done by Ontario One Call to develop a dedicated locator model where a professional locator could provide all locates related to an excavation project. Is that model of interest to your organization?

Yes

No

If not, why?