Moving Forward Establishing an Electrical Worker Near-Miss Reporting System

What have we accomplished today  Established the need  Seen what others are doing  Articulated what has been done

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Steering Committee  Don Hartley  IBEW International  International representative  James Merlo  North American Electric Reliability Council  Associate Director, Human Performance  Alan Mosher  American Public Power Association  VP of Policy Analysis and Reliability Standards  Allen Schriver  North American Generator Forum  Acting Chair  Eric Back  Pacific Gas and Electric Co  Director Operations support  Navin Bhatt  Electric Power Research Institute  Technical Executive  Earl Carnes  Department of Energy  Sr. Advisor  Linda Connell  Aviation Safety Reporting System  Program Director  Bob Dean  IBEW 1245  Assistant Business Manager

Next Steps  Finalize the Steering Committee by March 8, 2013  Assemble the Project Team by March 15, 2013  Project Team first work session by March 25, 2013  Request funding by the 4 th quarter of 2013

Project Team Actions  Establish EWRS product requirements  Entry database  Establish report review process  Data verification  Confidentiality  Broadcast  Event particulars  Trend analysis  Lessons learned  Create EWRS Prototype

Project Team Actions  Determine legal and organizational structure  Establish independence from regulatory agencies.  Maintain confidentiality in all cases  Maintain independent authority  Determine management structure  Staffing:  Leadership  Industry relations and communications  Near-Miss Report Review Panel

Project Team Actions  Develop Business Plan  Budgets and projections  Value of the reporting system to the industry  Explore funding options and initiate a funding request  Federal support  Industry support

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Discussion

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