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Safety Program Software for the Electrical Utility Industry
In the past, tracking safety metrics in the electrical utility industry has been a cumbersome process. Traditionally, it involves veritable mountains of paperwork. Each observation, each job briefing, each hazard report requires its own form sheet that must be filled out by hand. Today, safety program software has replaced these antiquated methods for tracking the…
Safety KPIs in the Electrical Utility Industry
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to measure safety in the electrical utility industry. We talked about the ways in which the safety of your workplace depends on tracking quantifiable metrics, which can be organized into tables and graphed over time. But there are even more safety KPIs, or key performance indicators, that…
Checklist of Champions: Your Complete Employee Safety Observation Form Guide
In the electrical utility industry, safety is everything. It should be a primary focus for your organization to always be conscious of ways to mitigate hazards and promote the safety of your workers. One of the most effective ways to do this is to perform and record safety observations using an employee safety observation form….
How to Measure Safety in the Electrical Utility Industry
A carefully crafted culture of safety is imperative to the electrical utility industry, but it can be difficult to develop methods and strategies for how to measure safety. Safety is often an abstract, intangible concept. There must be calculable, quantifiable safety metrics to ensure that the culture of safety is properly maintained. Fortunately, there are…
Job Briefing [Q&A]
The purpose of the job brief is to discuss and explain the safety hazards to everyone on a job site in order to accomplish the job in a safe, efficient manner.
Safety Culture in Industry
By empowering employees to implement safe work practices including first-hand involvement in the safety process, the likelihood of incidents and injuries will be significantly reduced around our workplaces.
People-Focused Safety
People-focused safety is a top-down comprehensive approach to help empower all employees to be responsible for making critical decisions affecting themselves and their co-workers.
Field Observations: Proactive Methodology to Ensure Maximum Safety
By Lee Marchessault, CUSP. Incident Prevention Magazine December 2019. Electrical utilities are among the most hazardous industries to work. This was recognized in the early days of electrical power distribution over 100 years ago with extremely high fatality rates. Since those days utilities have investigated and examined injuries and fatalities to learn how to prevent…
Field Personnel Observations: Proving Safety First Works
By Lee Marchessault, CUSP. Incident Prevention Magazine July 2018. Electrical utilities are among the most hazardous industries to work. This was recognized in the early days of electrical power distribution with extremely high fatality rates. Since those days utilities have examined every injury and fatality to learn how to prevent the next one including analyzing…
Conducting Effective Electrical Safety Audits
This class will provide guidance information and checklists that may be used to make a determination if your electrical safety program provides an effective level of safety for the qualified electrical workers and for non-qualified workers to help lower associated risks. Conducting regular and documented field audits provide tools to identify deficiencies, enhance training programs,…