04/29/21
Dave Trumble
After driving past a car crash, we all slow down for the next little while. This is similar to how we respond in the aftermath of a workplace fatality. We often slow down for a bit before the behaviors and habits of the years creep back in. Some organizations refuse to let complacency return and make foundational changes that alter the
Throughout most of the 20th century, generating and distributing electricity in Ontario and sharing these resources with bordering states was in the hands of Ontario Hydro. The “Hydro,” as it was often called, stood as one of the biggest players in the electricity market in North America for decades. Ontario Hydro established enviable safety programs and records, as did the various companies that spawned from its dissolution due to deregulation, or so we thought until the early 1990s. Due to its size and the diversity of work from construction to operation and maintenance, Ontario Hydro had experienced some tragic loss and injury. However, no one expected over the course of barely one year that six people would be killed on the job. Adopting cutting-edge changes to prevent such tragedy and then to improve became a successful mission for Ontario Hydro.