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focusing on branding, positioning, customer feedback, and
reinforcing buying decisions. How will measurement systems
encourage improved safety efforts?
■ What initiatives will support the safety excellence strategy? This
should be the last question of this series. Unfortunately, the
average organization makes many great attempts to improve
safety but has difficulty demonstrating how those efforts will
produce measurable progress.
Delegate Priorities, Not Values
For safety to become a core value, safety improvement cannot be
delegated. Values are created when, over time, beliefs are reinforced
by consistent behaviors. This requires key decision-makers to be involved
in the creation and continuous evolution of the measurement
strategy. Measuring the right things and celebrating leading indicator
progress is far too important to be the sole responsibility of the
safety department if sustainable excellence is your goal. Unless, of
course, you are okay with just failing a little less year after year.
-Contributed by Shawn M. Galloway (info@proactsafety.com),
president of ProAct Safety. He is an international consultant, professional
speaker and seminar leader, and has helped hundreds of
international organizations improve their safety performance. He
is also the host of the weekly podcast series Safety Culture Excellence,
available on iTunes.
Women in Power Event Provides
Networking Opportunities
From success stories to war stories, members of the Women in
Power Panel Discussion shared their insights about working
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as women professionals in the U.S. electric power industry at
the 2012 ELECTRIC POWER Conference in Baltimore on May 16.
The gathering featured lively exchanges between panelists and
a large number of attendees (Figure 4). The panel discussion
was organized by co-chairs Angela Neville, JD, senior editor of
POWER, and Colleen Campbell, business development director at
CH2M HILL.
The event's emphasis was to encourage attendees to share
career strategies, professional accomplishments, concerns,
and lessons learned. In addition, there were discussions
about how to foster more networking among women power
professionals and develop mentoring relationships for both
technical expertise and career development. The next Women
in Power Generation panel discussion will take place at the
2013 ELECTRIC POWER Conference, which will be held May
14 to 16 in Chicago. For more information about this event,
contact angelan@powermag.com.
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magazine as a professional development and industry outreach
group for women working in all aspects of power generation, inclusive
of all generation technologies. The need for such a group
emerged from response to a special report in our Nov. 2008 issue,
" Workforce Management Lessons from Women in Power Generation, "
written by Dr. Gail Reitenbach, POWER's managing editor
(available in the archives at www.powermag.com).
To connect with other women in the power generation industry,
join the Women in Power Generation LinkedIn Group.
This group's goal is to give the still-too-few women in the
industry a networking center for everything from job leads
to mentoring advice to brainstorming about how to encourage
more young women to consider careers in all areas of the
power generation business.
Also visit the Women in Power Generation
page on the POWER website (www.powermag
.com/WomenInPowerGeneration) for information updates, announcements,
and links to resources. ■
-Contributed by Angela Neville, JD, POWER senior editor.
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4. Women in Power panelists. Left to right: co-chair Angela
Neville, JD, senior editor of POWER; co-moderator Erin Toelke, client
service manager of the environmental services business group, CH2M
HILL; Sheree Petrone, vice president, fuels & environmental trading,
Exelon Generating Co.; Verne Shortell, executive director of environmental
business, NRG Energy Inc.; Hilda Pinnix-Ragland, vice president,
corporate public affairs, Progress Energy Inc.; and Carol Dodson,
senior vice president, asset management services, Baltimore Gas &
Electric. Source: POWER
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