1. Safety Improvement Concepts
Jewel Currie
Director - Transportation, Health & Safety

2. About We Energies 1 million+ gas customers
1 million+ electric customers
21,000+ square miles of service territory
20,000+ miles of gas main
45,000+ miles of overhead and underground distribution lines
7,600+ megawatts of generation from 6 coal plants
4,600 full-time employees
(550 Gas Operations)

3. Delivering the future; target zero
Infrastructure projects now – 2017 to:
Renew and modernize our grid
Meet new environmental standards
Add clean, renewable energy to our fleet
Electric:
Rebuild 2,000 miles of electric distribution lines and replace 18,500 power poles, 20,000 transformers and hundreds of substation components
Natural gas:
Replace 1,250 miles of fiberglass, plastic and steel natural gas mains, 83,000 individual natural gas distribution lines and 233,000 meter sets

4. Wisconsin Energy Corporation incident trending

5. We Energies – Gas Operations incident trending

6. Key initiatives CEO, Executive Safety Committee (ESC)
Leadership Commitment
Leading indicators
Engaged Employees
Personal Commitment
Safety Action Teams
Ergonomics - tools
Case Management

7. Leadership Commitment
Top 13
ESC
Target zero

8. Safety Leading Indicators
Safety leading indicator goals focus on and measure against the company’s injury-prevention activities. Monitoring what is being done to safeguard employees from injury makes good, proactive business sense.

9. Leading indicators = Safety Performance
Effective use of leading indicators = world-class safety performance
Near Miss/ Unsafe Condition
Behavioral Observation
Ergonomics
Emergency Drills
Safe Start
Audits
Training
Safety Meetings
Health Risk Appraisal
Personal Commitment

10. Build together as a system
Leading Indicators
Health Risk Appraisal
Near Miss
Safety leading indicators
Near Miss
Health Risk Appraisal

11. What is a Near Miss or Unsafe Condition?
A Near Miss is any action or situation that could have resulted in injury, death, or property damage, but for some reason it did not - this time.
An Unsafe Condition is anything that is likely to cause injury or damage

12. Near Miss/Unsafe Condition

13. Health Risk Appraisal (HRA)
Blood Pressure
Blood Sugar
Cholesterol

14. Engaged employees
Personal commitment
Area Safety Action Teams

15. Personal Commitment

16. Ergonomic Initiatives
Safety Action Teams =
Ergonomic Initiatives
Wrenching tools
Roundtables
Valving
Wrenching
Vehicle redesign
CARGI Consortium

17. Completion Plug Wrench
Ergonomic Interventions
Completion Plug Wrench
Torque Multiplier
Offset wrench
Grip Stik Tap Twister
Meter Nut Wrench
Hockey Stick
Meter Bag
Wrench Extenders

18. Case management Review of injury Post injury follow up
Nurse involved with all incidents
Athletic Trainer (Time 2 Stretch)
Personal Safety Management Program

19. Personal Safety Management Plan (PSMP) – incident types

20. Communications iConnect Safety Alerts Posters Newsletters E-mails
Pipe & Wire
Our Generation s
Communication-communication- communication!!!

21. Communication

22. Each and every day every task working injury free
Target Zero
Each and every day every task working injury free

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