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Volume 6
November 2012
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In This Issue
Employee Spotlight
We Are #1!
Focus of the Week
Growth in the Permian Basin
Texas811 Appreciates Its Employees
Regional Safety Days
Automating Updates
 

 

 

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Featured Recipe

     

Chicken-and-Sausage Jambalaya

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Employee Spotlight
 Nicole Beard

"Every single ticket that we process has a human life on the other end that is dependent on our accuracy."

Kyle VanLandingham - Texas811 Quality Assurance Manager

 
 
The Texas811 Truck hauling the Alamo back to Dallas, tourists included.
   

Did You Know?

You can contact Texas811 directly by using FastCustomer, GeoRemote or E-Locate. Email info@Texas811.org for more information!
Message from Marrs 

  

To the Stakeholders of Texas811,                                                                   

 

Lone Star Notification, the other notification center that operates (but is not located) in Texas, now offers locate tickets for $.50 each, with no associated contract*. Apparently they believe price is the only consideration - that Damage Prevention has no value. We want you to know about this development, and take this opportunity to talk about Texas811's success in the past - and in the future. Read More

WE ARE #1!
Click here to the video from the Dallas Morning News
 
Top 100 Midsize Company to work for in the DFW area!  
Focus of the Week

Growth in the Permian Basin

Sometime near the end of May, 2009, I packed a suitcase and began travelling West on I-20. Destination... Midland, TX. There I would meet up with Juan Alvarez, who covers damage prevention for Kinder Morgan's CO2 pipeline. Read More
Texas811 Appreciates Its Employees
  

Texas811 has always shown appreciation for its employees through benefits, on-site perks, and service awards. This year we wanted to enhance our appreciation by hosting a week of food, fun, prizes, and entertainment.

            The theme of our employee appreciation week was "Flying south for the winter". Read More
Regional Safety Days

The economy has affected safety training in Texas in many ways this year; on

one hand, municipal utilities have been short on funding while oil and gas jobs have been booming. This creates a dilemma of "no time" or "no money" Read More
 
  

Automating Updates

   

Just about everyone who has called Texas811 is familiar with updating a locate request. Updates (sometimes called update and remark or refresh) are an avenue for excavators to have an existing work site marked again, or when needed, a way to be in compliance with Texas Administrative Code Title 16, Part 1, Chapter 18. Read More