For more than a decade, the construction industry had set the target to reduce the utility damage numbers to zero. The sector supported the initiation of the WIBON law (originally called WION) that regulated the utility location and planning information exchange between stakeholders (utility and excavation companies); introduced the utility statutory record exchange system KLIC in the eighties; established the KLO (utility sector board, kabel en leidingoverleg), and took many initiatives to raise risk awareness.