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Are underground utility markers essential workers?
- Subject: Are underground utility markers essential workers?
- From: lists.nanog at monmotha.net (Brandon Martin)
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:55:11 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On 4/21/20 2:57 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Utility markers don't get the recognition they deserve.  If they aren't
> essential workers, they should be.... and get hazard pay.
>
> They help protect everyone's fiber and cables and pipes that go boom.
If underground construction is an essential activity (and it certainly
is, at least repairs generally are - new construction perhaps could be
argued), then underground utility marking is, too, since it's mandatory
for safely performing underground construction.
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Brandon Martin