Guam Power Authority

Operations | Safety

Overview
The Safety Division is tasked to achieve standards of safety to rank in the top three Nation’s American Public Power Standings by reducing the number of Workers Compensation cases within the authority by ten percent per year. To achieve one hundred percent of training in Accident/Injury Reporting, Safety, and Nuclear/Radiological Awareness for all employees, and to reduce the backlog of customers claim to sixty days of customer’s submission. The Safety Office and its employees conduct briefings once a week. The Safety office staff consists of:

Safety Administrator
Safety Inspector Supervisor
Safety Inspector II (4)
Clerk III

The Safety Division Office Hours is from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday. After Hours (weekends and holidays) the duty On-Call Safety Inspector can be reached by calling the PSCC Trouble Dispatchers Office at 475-1472/3/4.

Mission Statement
To educate and influence employees to adopt safety, health, and environmental policies, procedures, and practices that prevents accidents, injuries, and loss from preventable causes. The Safety Division is responsible for administering and maintaining the Worker’s Compensation Program, Medical Surveillance, Workplace Monitoring and Testing, Conduct Vehicular and Occupational Accident Investigations, Process Customers Claims, Provide Security Monitoring and Facilities Inspections, Safety and Nuclear/Radiological Awareness Training, and to Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Supplies.

Maintain a Safe & Healthful Working Environment

Increase Safety Awareness in the Work Place by providing annual safety training;
Support training programs that improve qualification and skills of employees;
Significantly reduce incident rates to achieve 1st place in APPA's Safety award program.

On February 28, 2008 the Safety Division was notified by American Public Power Association (APPA) that Guam Power Authority had scored an incident rate of 1.23, thus recieving Second Place for the 2007 Safety Contest. GPA has been categorized in Group G for systems with 1,000,000 to 3,999,999 workers-hours of exposure for the year 2007.

Year Placing Incident Rate

2007 2nd 1.23

2008 3rd 2.14

2009 2nd 1.86

2010 2nd 1.54

Training