PGE maintains rigorous safety guidelines for our employees’ and clients’ protection.
PGE is committed to providing both our clients and employees with a safe and secure work environment. Safety & Human Performance training saves lives and helps reduce the severity of injury associated with accidents. As such, PGE is committed to providing our employees with resources and safety training programs that reduce or eliminate personal and economic loss associated with injuries and health hazards.
PGE maintains a stringent safety program consisting of monthly safety training meetings and oversight provided by PGE’s Safety & Human Performance Manager.
Upon on-boarding, all PGE employees complete the standardized OSHA safety training (including the T & D Baseline and Substation specific courses) through PowerSafe.
Each year, field personnel are required to complete an eight-hour safety training course, and office personnel must complete a four-hour course. Should a client require additional safety standards be met for an engineer or technician working on their project, PGE will ensure they receive the additional training.
Each month, PGE holds a safety meeting in which all attendance is mandatory for employees. Safety meetings are approximately 30 minutes long and employees must complete 12 safety meetings per year. In the event that an employee cannot attend a safety meeting, they’ll be required to attend a make-up safety meeting.
“Safety around the clock” is an important company core value and as such, safety meeting attendance is part of each employee’s annual goals. Non-attendance will affect an employee’s annual evaluation.
At Power Grid Engineering (PGE), we’re committed to protecting the health and safety of our employees, customers and the surrounding community. As such at PGE, we’ve established “Safety Around the Clock” as a company core value. Whether at work or at home, safety remains a priority for PGE and is everyone’s responsibility.
To successfully achieve this objective, we will continue to center our strategic focus on these key safety principles:
Worker safety is an indispensable element of productivity, quality and cost control. To manage operational, health and safety risks, we deliver a full range of field safety programs including, but not limited to:
We believe the way to achieve safety excellence is through operational ownership. Operational ownership means that Power Grid Engineering holds its managers accountable for the integrity of the operations they supervise. Our safety experts support and guide the safety and compliance programs, but the company expects its operations managers to take the lead. We ensure operational commitment through the following components:
As a company founded on quality, it’s our duty to apply safety analytics, hazard/risk reduction techniques and governance systems to every aspect of our operations.
All PGE employees are required to complete the company’s risk-based safety training. We train new and existing employees on the company’s expectations, procedures and tactics for delivering the highest safety results.
Operational ownership requires trust and partnership between leadership and employees. That’s why we conduct periodic, anonymous safety perception surveys. These surveys ask employees questions designed to measure their engagement, their views of the safety at their workplace and their impressions of our commitment to safety. We hold operation leaders accountable for results.
We understand that safety improvements never really end as we pursue safety excellence. We’re committed to the continuous evaluation of opportunities for improvement — ensuring that safety aligns with business goals, delivers results and drives innovation/engagement.
Our approach to auditing focuses on rewarding (rather than punishing) operations for discovering and correcting compliance and process gaps.
Our customers often conduct high-risk operations in challenging environments. We’re committed to helping our business partners deliver on their own safety expectations by aligning our programs with theirs. We find that this is the best way to achieve no harm.
We’re committed to providing a safe and healthful workplace for our employees and customers as well as observe all job site, state and federal laws and regulations. Our safety team comes from several different industries and has over 25 years of experience in the areas of transmission and distribution, oil and gas, power generation, warehousing, subgrade construction and material handling.
We’ve established a safety program designed to continually improve through routine self-evaluations, training, management support and employee participation. As such, our employees understand the importance of a positive/proactive safety culture.
No employee is required to work at a job that he or she feels is unsafe and has the authority to “Stop Work”. Therefore, it’s our priority to make every workplace safe by detecting and correcting unsafe working conditions, as well as the discovery and resolution of unsafe work practices.