A Year’s Worth of News You Can Use

AEGIS Loss Control publishes Quick Tips for the benefit of members who serve in operations and risk management roles. Our goal is to highlight the importance of inspection, maintenance and related issues in terms of keeping the infrastructure in peak condition and maintaining safety for employees and the public.

Before we publish the next issue, we thought you might like to review the topics we covered in 2021.  

• Battery Energy Storage Systems White Paper and Webinar
  
  The number of large-scale battery energy storage systems is growing quickly, along with the related risks associated with their design, installation and operation. AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to offer a new white paper and a recent webinar to help guide members with these new storage systems.

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• New Training for Emergency Call Handling at Electric Utility Call Centers
  
  In response to several recent claims involving the way emergency calls from the public are handled by call center representatives (CSRs), AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to introduce a new, virtual one-hour training presentation for CSRs that focuses on improving the utility’s emergency call handling procedures and practices. The presentation emphasizes the importance of following company call handling procedures while providing the precautionary safety advice essential to protecting life and property from electric utility hazards.

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• Contractor Safety Policies and Procedures for Electric Utilities
  
  Electric utilities should have policies and procedures in place to address the safety of contractors when they are working near energized, high-voltage electric lines.

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• Natural Gas Workers, Odorization and COVID Loss of Smell
  
  As essential natural gas employees who were infected with COVID-19 return to work in field operations, remember that the virus may have affected their sense of smell. Field employees working in natural gas transmission and distribution operations are responsible for measuring the effectiveness of the company's odorization efforts. To do their jobs, they are required to have a normal sense of smell, according to 49 CFR 192.625(a).

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• Steam Turbine Overspeed Protection Systems
  
  Although a steam turbine overspeed event is rare, it can be catastrophic, and can lead to significant property damage and extremely high repair costs. AEGIS Loss Control considers a steam turbine centrifugal explosion to be the maximum foreseeable power plant machinery loss event. A large steam turbine uncontained overspeed event can produce forces approaching those of a large plane crash.

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• Introducing the Quick Start Guides for Public Safety Communications Programs
  
  What comes first when you develop a public safety communications program? How do you make sure you're reaching the right audiences with the right safety messages? How do you keep your program going and continuously improving? The single most important reason to invest in a public safety communications program is to save lives. AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc. and Culver Company, a leader in providing public safety education for the utility industry, are pleased to introduce two comprehensive new guides to help electric and natural gas utilities with their public safety communications programs.

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