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December 2013/January 2014 * www.esb.ie/em G&WM Sustainability Strategy workshop 8 A Sustainability Strategy workshop took place in October 2013 and was attended by staff representing all parts of the Generation & Wholesale Markets business. Speakers at the G&WM Sustainability Strategy workshop included (l-r) Duncan Clarke, Paddy Hayes, Executive Director G&WM, Declan O'Brien and Colm de Búrca. THE PURPOSE OF THIS workshop was to present the ESB repositioned Sustainability Strategy and to discuss how G&WM can deliver on the objectives relevant to its business. In his opening address Paddy Hayes, Executive Director, reflected on ESB's origins as a sustainable generation company with the development of Ardnacrusha, the significant progress in delivering on our sustainability objectives since 2008 and emphasised that we must now focus on thoroughly embedding sustainability within our business plans and in the way we work. He also acknowledged the challenge that this may entail given the current reduced resources. Following on from this Colm de Búrca, Corporate Manager Safety and Sustainability, presented the new ESB Sustainability Strategy, emphasising that it builds on the many successes of the 2008-2012 programme. Two further presentations were given by Duncan Clarke, G&WM Manager Environment and Sustainability, and Rose Walsh, Civil, Building and Three interactive workshop sessions were held during the day - focused on delivering the strategy objectives. At the event conclusion it was agreed that each location would consider the relevant sustainability objectives and the outcome of the workshops in preparing their 2014 business plans. Thus the 2014 business plans for all parts of G&WM will include sustainability related actions and targets. Environment, ESB International. The former highlighted the work and successes to date within G&WM whilst the latter provided an overview of the new waste framework contract for the generating stations. Declan O'Brien, ESB Sustainability Committee Representative for G&WM closed the event and thanked everyone for his or her participation in the day. Declan confirmed that a high-level 2014 G&WM Sustainability Action Plan will be developed based on the sustainability items in the individual plans.  West Offaly Power achieves 2,000 days LTI-free WEST OFFALY POWER recently achieved 2,000 days without a Lost Time Incident. Great credit is due to all staff (both past and present) and contractors for their contribution in reaching this milestone. It is five and a half years since the last LTI, which occurred when a contractor was struck by a piece of falling ash in the boiler. Incidentally, West Offaly has to go back seven years to November 2006 for the last LTI to a staff member. While these records are a tribute to the commitment of all to working safely, West Offaly staff are aware that there is no room for complacency. A day without a Lost Time Incident only occurs through a combination of vigilance, awareness and the active involvement of everyone in promoting a positive safety culture. Well done to all for this achievement and it is hoped that the station can continue to build on this success going forward.  GENERATION & WHOLESALE MARKETS 17 Book on history of Erne Hydroelectric Scheme launched in Ballyshannon ON NOVEMBER 9TH a history of the Erne Hydroelectric Scheme was launched at the Allingham Arts Festival in the Abbey Centre. Authors of the book, Dessie Doyle and Brian Drummond, detailed the story of the families who built the scheme from 1946 to 1955. It recalls the relationship between the Irish Free State and the Stormont Government over the period of the scheme and outlines the story of the 1,000 men who blasted the rocks of Donegal and Fermanagh to carve out two enormous dams that redirected the mighty river Erne and changed the landscape forever. Dr Michael Kennedy, historian and expert on the history of Irish Foreign Policy, highlighted the fact that the Erne Scheme was a model of effective cross border cooperation. He complemented ESB for having the foresight The authors Dessie Doyle and Brian Drummond, both ESB staff, thanked the company for sponsoring the publication. They dedicated the book to all those past or present who have worked on the construction or operation of the Scheme and they hoped that this work would open the door for further research and publications on this topic. They thanked their families and all those who assisted with the production of the book and singled out for a special acknowledgment the ESB Archive Team for their hands on assistance, encouragement and support without whose help the production of the book would not have been possible. Central Procurement group assist Dublin Simon During September the Central Procurement team in G&WM Head Office turned their hand to helping the Dublin Simon Community as part of a team development day. The Dublin Simon Community dubbed it as ' Room to Improve Day' and in effect this translated into the cleaning of four of the busiest rooms in their Capel Street Centre in Dublin 1. Treating a casualty on Paraguard stretcher at the recent rescue from height exercise at West Offaly Power. Pictured above are (Back Row l-r) Pamela Siebold (on ladder), Conor Foley and Derek Fuller. Front Row (l-r) Padraig Egan, Patricia Brennan, Grace Stimpson, Una Clarke, Louise Mernagh and Colm Brophy. Pictured (l-r) are Brian Drummond, Pat Naughton, ESB Executive Director Group People & Sustainability, Antony Farrell, MD The Lilliput Press, Sinead Treanor and Dessie Doyle. to develop and maintain a collection of very valuable archival records, which were used to produce this publication including some selected archival photographs of the highest quality. Pat Naughton, ESB Executive Director Group People and Sustainability, acknowledged all those associated with The Allingham Arts. MC for the event was Plant Manger, Sinead Treanor while Conor Carney, Chair of the Allingham Arts Festival thanked those attending the book launch. Conor commented on the enormous contribution that ESB and its staff have made and continue to make to the wider community and Ballyshannon in particular. He stated: "It is also very appropriate for us all, but especially the authors, to be launching this book here today as their first publication was titled 'Hugh Allingham Selected Works', which was published in 2007, and also because Dessie and Brian are both steeped in the history of the Allinghams, the town of Ballyshannon and of course ESB. He concluded his remarks by congratulating both the authors and all those involved in the production of the book stating "perhaps the greatest benefit of this very impressive publication is that the authors have set out the situation during the construction of the project as it prevailed and they have left it to the reader to make his or her own judgement on what happened". n WIND DEVELOPMENT PRESENTS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8 Increasing wind turbine component size and more challenging locations for projects, mean that transportation, logistics and heavy lifting operations must be absolutely robust to ensure the safety of staff whilst avoiding delays to installation. THE ANNUAL WIND Heavy Lift, Transport and Logistics Conference took place last month in London. The conference was chaired by Sean Hegarty, Wind Construction Manager, Asset Development and one of the papers delivered by Michael O'Grady, Health and Safety Manager, Asset Development. The Conference was attended by Project Developers, OEMs and Contractors and a wide range of expert speakers addressed many of the issues currently topical within the wind industry - with a particular focus on minimising costs and delay during the movement and installation of large components. Mick's paper, which was jointly delivered with Paul Whelan of SSE, was entitled 'Sharing Best Practice To Improve Health and Safety Performance In The Onshore Wind Industry'. The presentation focused very much on the behav- ioural aspects of safety - borrowing on many of the concepts from our own behaviour-based safety approach to managing safety on wind and thermal construction projects. This presentation was very well received with questions afterwards having to be curtailed by the Chair, such was the level of interest in the topic. It was clear that ESB and SSE are thought-leaders within our industry in this arena. n Construction at Athea wind farm, Co. Limerick. Photo courtesy of Paul Whelan, SSE. http://www.esb.ie/em

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