People
This survey tells us whether employees feel safe speaking up about risk.
What is the Safety Culture Perception Survey?
This inspection focus targets work most likely to cause serious injury or fatality.
What are High‑Energy Activities and Tasks (HEAT)?
These incidents pose the greatest risk to public trust and safety.
What are utility strikes or public safety incidents?
These costs increase when injuries or incidents occur, even if operations continue.
What are WCB premiums and internal incident costs?
Developing IT, data, and change‑leadership skills helps HSSE move from reactive to this type of safety approach.
What is proactive or predictive safety?
This process checks whether hazard controls actually worked — not just whether they were completed.
What is corrective action effectiveness auditing?
This shift changes safety conversations from punishment to shared responsibility.
What is moving from Life Saving Rules to Life Saving Commitments?
Preventing repeat incidents improves safety AND this business outcome.
What is cost avoidance?
This type of leadership response reduces rule‑based discipline and increases learning from mistakes.
What is coaching‑first or Just Culture leadership?
These plans are evaluated for quality, not just completion, to reduce repeat incidents.
What are Safe Work Plans (SWPs)?
Improving this reduces damage to infrastructure and community harm.
What is proactive damage prevention?
Vehicle incidents most directly affect this measurable financial area.
What are repair, downtime, and insurance costs?
This initiative builds consistency for new leaders in operational safety expectations.
What is standardized HSSE onboarding / safety learning pathways?
Using audits, HEAT findings, and incident trends together helps HSSE do this better.
What is enterprise risk prioritization / risk‑based decision‑making?
Consistent investigation of these events helps prevent recurrence across EPCOR.
What are standardized utility strike investigations?
Strong HSSE systems support the business by reducing this hidden cost.
What is operational disruption?
A worker reports a near miss late in the day. Nothing bad happened. This PEOPLE principle determines whether they report again next time.
What is psychological safety?
A similar incident happens twice in different business units. This system gap is most likely responsible.
What is inconsistent governance or lack of shared learning?
A customer is affected by a preventable incident. This HSSE focus area influences whether trust is restored.
What is transparent communication and accountability?
Leadership ignores minor incidents because “they’re cheap.” This is the long‑term financial risk they’re missing.
What is cumulative risk exposure / serious incident potential?