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Introduction This report provides both tabular and graphical evaluations of the data submitted to the American Public Power Association's (The Association) annual Safety Awards of Excellence for 2018.1 The purpose of compiling this data is to offer a benchmark for individual municipal utilities. The intent of this report is to help safety professionals analyze their utility's yearly performance in relation to others in the public power community. Through the data presented in this report, the Association aspires to help safety professionals create a context for review of safety program efficacy at their individual utilities. Each year, the Safety Awards are open to any Association member utility, Joint Action Agency, Federal Agency, and State Association/Agency that wishes to participate.2 Since participation is voluntary, the rules are set up to encourage consistent involvement. Thus, to be eligible to win an award, participants must submit data for three consecutive years; in the third year, the participant will be considered eligible for an award. Consistent submission helps to minimize selection bias and skewing of yearly data. Entries are sorted into groups according to the total number of hours worked by all electric utility employees at that particular utility in the designated year. The group categories are the same from year to year; a group-specific analysis is presented in section II of this report.' Awards are given out to the participating eligible utilities with the lowest incidence rate within each group. The incidence rate is calculated by using a standardized U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) formula. This formula was developed to give a relative number of accidents that an organization might expect if it had 100 employees. Since the incidence rate is based on a ratio, any utility that has fewer hours worked will experience a larger proportional impact of any incident (or"case") on the final incidence rate. Conversely, a utility with more hours worked will experience a smaller proportional impact of any incident on the final incidence rate. The incidence rate calculation is demonstrated below (note the weighting factor of 200,000 worker hours representing 100 typical employees). (Total Reported Incidents *200,000 Work Hours) Incidence Rate (TRIR) _ Number of Work Hours 'The American Public Power Associations Safety Awards of Excellence program was formerly referred to as the Association's Safety Contest. 2 Starting in 2010,JAAs, Federal Agencies,and State Associations/Agencies were incorporated into a group based on their worker-hours. These organizations did not displace any utility winners in each group; rather,when applicable, they were recognized by lowest incidence rate within their worker-hour category group. 3 Group categories were changed slightly by the Associations Safety Committee in 2003 to account for utility growth. 2018 American Public Power Association's Safety Awards of Excellence Report Page 3 400 •