SAFETY & TRAINING
We encourage every employee to make safety their number one value.
Elliot knows it’s in the best interest of our employees, their families, our customers, and the public that we encourage every employee to make safety and working safely their core number one value.
how we do it
To create the safest work environment possible for our employees, we have developed an extensive safety program that meets or exceeds compliance of federal, state, local, and customer regulations.
Our employees’ individual commitment to embrace our safety culture enables us to be one of the safest companies in our industry. Their safety conscious attitude continues to reinforce our culture, habits, values, and behaviors.
Elliot is Gold Shovel Standard Certified
Gold Shovel Standard (GSS) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving workforce and public safety and the integrity of buried infrastructure. GSS believes that greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried-asset operators, locators and excavators is essential to drive continuous improvement, and vital to increasingly safe working conditions and communities.

WHAT IS THE ELL10T?
Our President and CEO, David Haskins, and the leadership team came up with the ELL10T to help improve safety for our employees. They wanted to find a systematic way to reach Target Zero, and after studying our incidents, they came up with 10 things we could do at Elliot to reduce accidents.
01COMMUNICATION
02FALL PROTECTION
03FOLLOWING DISTANCE
04GLOVES & SLEEVES
05GROUNDING/EPZ
06JOB BRIEFING
07LEADERSHIP
08LINE OF FIRE
09OBSERVER
10PROPER COVER
The ELL10T was created to make sure every employee goes home safe every day.
Safety & Training
We encourage every employee to make safety their core value and number one priority.
Elliot knows it’s in the best interest of our employees, their families, our customers, and the public that we encourage every employee to make safety and working safely their core value and number one priority.

how we do it
To create the safest work environment possible for our employees, we have developed an extensive safety program that meets or exceeds compliance of federal, state, and local as well as our customers’ regulations.
Our policies and programs are not only what sets us apart. Our employees’ individual commitment to embrace our safety culture enables us to be one of the safest in our industry. Their safety conscious attitude continues to reinforce our culture, habits, values and behaviors.
WHAT IS THE ELL10T?
The ELL10T was created to make sure every employee goes home safe every day.
Our President and CEO, David Haskins, and the leadership team came up with the ELL10T to help improve safety for our employees. They wanted to find a systematic way to reach Target Zero, and after studying our incidents, they came up with 10 things we could do at Elliot to reduce accidents.
01COMMUNICATION
02FALL PROTECTION
03FOLLOWING DISTANCE
04GLOVES & SLEEVES
05GROUNDING/EPZ
06JOB BRIEFING
07LEADERSHIP
08LINE OF FIRE
09OBSERVER
10PROPER COVER
Elliot is Gold Shovel Standard Certified
Gold Shovel Standard (GSS) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving workforce and public safety and the integrity of buried infrastructure. GSS believes that greater transparency in all aspects of damage prevention among buried-asset operators, locators and excavators is essential to drive continuous improvement, and vital to increasingly safe working conditions and communities.