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Safety Culture and Principles

Safety Culture and Principles

Safety has always been a top priority among the Constellation Energy utility and generation businesses, and in 2010 it was formally adopted as an enterprise-wide value shared by all employees from every type of business.  We operate on the principle that all injuries are preventable.  Achieving the safest possible conditions begins with weaving our commitment to safety into our culture, organizational structure, and the processes and systems that we use to generate and deliver power to customers with energy services.  Most importantly, Constellation leaders and employees take responsibility for our own and each others’ safety and wellbeing in all that we do.  Leadership on safety initiatives come from dedicated networks of safety and industrial hygiene professionals as well as employee committees at the site, business-unit, and corporate levels that work with management to monitor performance and set the course for our programs.

The real strength of Constellation’s safety program comes from a forward thinking team of safety professionals that place less emphasis on lagging indicators, such as recordable injuries, and instead focus resources on the implementation of programs and processes that lead to injury prevention and improved safety over the long term.  These include initiatives that range from behavior based safety training to ergonomics assessments to an OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) level of performance.  VPP locations include ACE Cogeneration, Calvert Cliffs, Ginna, and Nine Mile Point.

 

Backing Our Words with Numbers

We are proud to share our 2010 safety milestones.  Data is tracked based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements:

  • Our 2010 Total OSHA Recordable Occupational Injuries and Illnesses incidents per 200,000 hours worked was 1.19 in 2010, continuing a downward trend
  • Sixteen of our power generation facilities saw ZERO recordable injuries during 2010
  • Continuing a downward trend, our 2010 total OSHA Recordable Occupational Injuries and Illnesses incidents per 200,000 hours worked was 1.19
  • BGE had its lowest OSHA recordable rate since 2000 in a year that saw the company tested by some of the most extreme weather conditions in the history of central Maryland
  •  BGE HOME reduced recordable incidents by 11 percent in 2010
  • Maryland peaker plants have gone more than 17 years without a lost work case
  • Nine Mile Point Nuclear Power Plant recently marked more than 6.4 million hours worked since its last lost time incident

We are committed to providing a safe environment for our employees, customers, contractors, and the communities in which we serve.