When PWSA talks about safety – one of our Core Values – we mean it in a few ways: a safe working environment for employees, the safety of our infrastructure assets, and the safety of the millions of gallons of water delivered to our customers every day.

As a utility that works so heavily in the construction space, ensuring that our employees return home safely and in the same condition they arrived is an important part of our daily focus. That’s why, in the past few years alone, we’ve ramped up our employee safety efforts, bringing onboard a Safety Team dedicated to this kind of work.

Through their efforts, we’ve implemented more robust safety training for our employees – both for our field and Water Treatment Plant staff and for those working in more traditional office environments – increased our staff to provide more safety oversight, enhanced safety equipment to mitigate work hazards, and launched a Safety Incentive Program. This program rewards employees for practicing safe workplace behaviors, like completing daily stretching and using our near miss reporting program to report safety hazards.

To protect the infrastructure assets we rely on each day, PWSA is taking proactive approaches to renew key components of our water supply and distribution system via our nearly $470 million slate of Water Reliability Plan projects.

And when it comes to the safety of our water, our dedicated staff at the Water Treatment Plant and in our lab are constantly monitoring and measuring the quality of our drinking water to ensure that it meets all state and federal drinking water requirements.

Each year we release a Water Quality Report, the most recent of which I encourage you to read here.

In other words, safety is top-of-mind here at PWSA. And only through a sustained focus on safety can we enact on our mission to support our region by protecting public health and the environment through the delivery of safe and reliable water services.