Paducah Power System has earned the American Public Power Association’s Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2018. The utility earned First Place in the category for utilities with 110,00 to 249,999 hours of worker exposure last year. Keith Cutshall, Chair of the Association’s Safety Committee and Safety Director at Clarksville Department of Electricity in Tennessee presented the award during the Association’s annual Engineering & Operations Technical Conference.
“Safety programs are paramount to the well-being of employees that work for electric utilities,” said Cutshall. “The utilities receiving this award have proven that safety is of the utmost importance in the operation of their companies.”
More than 325 utilities entered the annual Safety Awards, which is the highest number of entrants in the history of the program. Entrants were placed in categories according to their number of worker-hours and ranked based on the most incident-free records during 2018.
“All of our employees work hard, every day, to maintain a strong safety culture at Paducah Power,” said PPS Assistant General Manager Rick Windhorst. “This award is a testament to their hard work that goes into ensuring that everyone goes home safe to his family every day.”
The Safety Awards have been held annually for the last 60 years. The American Public Power Association is the voice of not-for-profit, community-owned utilities that power 2,000 towns and cities nationwide.
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