Safety Summit (Aug 30-Sep 01)

The registration desk will open for attendees to pick up their name badge.

Visit Seattle City Light's Denny Substation in downtown Seattle, located less than a mile from the hotel. This 1-hour tour will begin at 3:00 PM. Participants will meet at the Denny Substation, instructions will be sent prior.
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Join us for a hosted reception and to pick up your namebage at registration. Dinner is on your own.

The registration desk will open for attendees to pick up their name badge.

Electric Safety Work Methods
Case Study: SRP’s Bolster Battery Pre-Incident Safety Training
A case study of SRP’s experience working with the first responders to create Site Training and an Emergency Response Plan for a 25 MW/100 MWh Tesla Battery Site. With first responders still mentally raw from the McMicken Battery Incident, training and coordination was a critical piece of the successful deployment of this battery. Hear from SRP the process, lessons learned, and the ongoing efforts to coordinate with first responders on energy storage safety.
Speaker: Sharon Bonesteel, Architect, SRP

Gas Safety Work Methods
Lone Worker Best Practices 
Lone workers face site-specific hazards, including conducting work operations in remote locations or other locations where coworkers, customers, or members of the public are not present.  Recognizing these hazards and leveraging technology and business practices and procedures are critical measures to ensure that workers in distress receive help in a timely manner.  This session will explore further the use of technology as an ongoing communication resource for lone workers and how the utilities on this panel uses it. 
Speaker: Mike Parham, Risk Management & Safety, Southwest Gas

Safety Strategy + Policy
Approaches to Safety Performance Measurement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This session will reflect on the traditional methods used to measure safety performance and explore the recent advances made with leading indicators and other means to measure safety performance, safety capacity & resilience and safety culture. It will also touch on the validity of existing safety metrics, their application and interpretation. We will examine the relationship between leading and lagging indicators and how these might coexist within a meaningful report on organizational performance.
Speakers: Manny Albert, FortisAlberta Inc., Director, Safety & Environment; Janet Holt-Killingbeck, Hydro One, Director of Learning and Analytics, Health, Safety & Environment; Phil Smithers, Arizona Public Service, Director of Safety, Environmental, Corrective Action Program and Human and Organizational Performance

Electric Safety Work Methods
Improving Field Access to Safety Information 
BC Hydro has spent a decade focusing on one major goal, to make safety information easier to find and easier to follow.  This has resulted in revamped methods of writing, storing, and communicating safety documentation.  The end result for the worker is shorter documents that are written in clear language which are stored in a way that can be found when needed whether in the office or out in the field.  Hear from a senior safety advisor who has been part of this process to learn how worker engagement was and still is critical in all aspects of this work.  
Speaker: Paul Hahto, Senior Safety Advisor, BC Hydro

A Risk Informed and Balanced Approach to Development of Work Methods and Risk Mitigations
While development of work methods may historically be more informed by trades experience and knowledge, at BCH, we have taken a more holistic approach where we take into account engineering / science / technical knowledge and combined it with trades expertise and knowledge along with considerations for human factors / behavior to arrive at the best approach(es).  Work tasks are evaluated through a job hazard / risk assessment process, engagement with applicable stakeholders (including but not limited to Operations, trades training, asset management, and engineering), and mitigations often through a structured decision-making process can include inherently safer engineered designs instead of or in addition to traditional work methods and PPE. Some recent examples will be shared to illustrate.
Speaker: Wendy Ho, Manager, Human Factors Engineering and Work Methods, BC Hydro

Gas Safety Work Methods
Tools Committee – How do you pick? 
Join us as we learn from ATCO how they pick their tools and what they are looking for when they review a new tool.  
Speaker: Rob Richardson, Supervisor, Workforce Development. ATCO

Safety Strategy + Policy
SIF Prevention Strategies
With strong reduction of injuries over the past decade by utilities, focus is shifting to the reduction of Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF). This session will explore this shift along with tools and methods for predicting and preventing the most significant events.
Speakers: Phil Smithers, APS, Director of Safety, Environmental, Corrective Action Program and Human and Organizational Performance; Janet Holt-Killingbeck, Hydro One, Director of Learning and Analytics, Health, Safety & Environment
 

Electric Safety Work Methods
De-Escalation in the Workplace
When someone is angry, words often fly out and the message of their frustration can be left behind.  As professionals, dealing with our customers, we must sometimes push beyond the words, seeking communication to find the meaning in the messages. This course is designed to help anyone dealing with emotionally distressed people find the meaning in the message, clarify the communication, so a positive resolution can be reached. During this course you will learn about the behavioral change stairway, active listening skills, tone of voice, and emotional labeling.
Speaker: Tim Durand, Safety Specialist, Snopud
Three Phase Lift Development
BC Hydro worked with industry reps to design a new heavy duty three phase lift that enables their PLTs to control three phases of distribution conductors on angle structures that have strong bisect loads. In addition, BC Hydro engineers designed a new load sensing wireholder that is able to give the PLTs live monitoring of the vertical and horizontal loads that each conductor is imparting on the three phase lift so the PLTs can ensure the tools and trucks are being used within their rated capacities. Hear from a senior engineer who was part of the development to see how this new tool is supporting BCH workers work safer.
Speaker: Paul Hahto, Senior Safety Advisor, BC Hydro

Gas Safety Work Methods
Driving Sustained Engagement in Safety
Join us as we hear from HR representatives from WEI member companies as they share their experience and learnings in implementing safety programs and learn their best practices in driving immediate and sustained engagement in safety.
Speaker: Jason Sanders, Director of Safety and Operations Solutions, Puget Sound Energy; Robert Peterson, Director, Safety and Technical Training, MUD Utilities Group:
Andrea Martinez, Pipeline Safety Management Systems (New Mexico Gas)

Safety Strategy + Policy
Compliance + ESG Roundtable
Charlotte Dorrity will facilitate a round table discussion about upcoming challenges in safety in the energy sector. This will be a participative discussion, so plan to share your challenges and approaches that you are taking to meet the challenges with your peers.
Facilitator: Charlotte Dorrity, Safety, Health, and Wellness Director, Seattle City Light

Join us for a hosted reception and to chat with vendors. Dinner is on your own.

The registration desk will open for attendees to pick up their name badge.

Electric Safety Work Methods
Safety and Work Methods Round Table 
Please join us for a round table session for an open forum to share and learn. This year’s session will highlight several topics regarding safety and work methods in the powerline industry.
Facilitator: Dean Battershill , Manager, Safety Operations, ENMAX
Lessons Learned 
Join us in this closing session and learn how utilities such as Salt River Project, ENMAX , Fortis Alberta and BC Hydro address safety issues like Digger rollovers, high load moves, trench cave-ins, crane misadventures and other safety issues within their utilities.
Speakers: Dean Battershill , Manager, Safety Operations, ENMAX; Wade Abbott, Manager, Safety and Work Methods, Fortis Alberta Inc.; Paul Hahto, Senior Safety Advisor, BC Hydro; Leonard Rondeau, Sr. Safety & Health Specialist, Salt River Project

Gas Safety Work Methods
New, Young and Transferred Workers 
Workers starting a new job at any age, as well as young workers under age 25, are three to five times more likely to be injured during their first few months at work. Successful businesses incorporate training and mentoring programs for new and young workers as an opportunity to instill a safety mindset. This session will outline risks that new, young and transferred workers experience and creative ways for employers to develop programs to reduce the risk associated with this so importation sector of our workforce.
Speaker: Derek Mullaly, supervisor for field health and safety, ATCO
Lessons Learned 
Lessons learned in the industry with positive directives 
Facilitators: Rob Richardson, Supervisor workforce development, ATCO gas

Safety Strategy + Policy
The 8 Habits of a Highly Effective Safety Culture
Safety Culture is what employees are doing when no one is watching. In this session, we will learn the evolution of safety cultures during the Industrial Revolution through present day. Everything evolves and if we do not evolve with it, we get left behind. We cannot get better by doing what we’ve been doing. It’s time for a paradigm shift in how we view and do safety. We will discuss 8 specific and transferable habits that when they become part of who you are and who your organization is your safety culture becomes just, and workers are no longer seen as the problem to solve, but the problem solvers. We will talk about the Human Performance Principles that are the foundation of a sustainable safety program. There will be time for Q&A and for participants to share their Safety Culture journey.
Speaker: Rod Courtney, CHST, CUSP, WCLS; Health, Safety & Environmental Manager, Ampirical