American Clean Power
Empowering People, Ensuring Safety
Safety First Workforce Campaign | 2024
The people of the clean energy workforce are the heartbeat of our industry, and the importance of their safety cannot be understated. As the clean energy sector grows, human factors play a key role in ensuring safety. This year’s campaign connects human factors with real-world accounts of hazards experienced on the job to better understand why we make the decisions we do.
Let's create a culture of safety across the industry.
As our clean energy sector expands, human factors—how we think, act, and make decisions—play a pivotal role in maintaining a safe work environment.
- Examples of human factors include normalization of warning signs, focusing on the wrong risks, confirmation bias, and groupthink.
While no one intends to make unsafe decisions that can lead to incidents, these human factors can impact our ability to make informed decisions and recognize potential hazards.
The unique environments and complex tasks in clean energy require our continued commitment to safety. ACP and its members are leading efforts to minimize hazard exposure through the development of training standards, micro credentials, advanced safety training and equipment, and safety-informed engineering for projects.
This year, we’ll feature real-world stories to highlight how these human factors contribute to workplace risks and show you how to make informed, safer decisions every day.
Join us this year – details below!
View Our Weekly PowerCast Recordings Below
A live PowerCasts series focused on real-world insights, training, and tools will bring safety information right to your job sites from October 2024.
Organize your teams of technicians or office personnel to attend these sessions as part of a breakfast or lunch gathering (depending on your time zone).
The PowerCasts recordings are open to all.
Participation Awards
ACP is organizing participation for companies that demonstrate their participation in the campaigns. Learn how you and your team can be eligible! Prizes include insulated tumblers, baseball caps, hard hat shade shields, campaign stickers, and more!
- Individuals can be randomly selected for an award through:
- Attending a PowerCast session, or
- Completing this social media survey to share your clean energy story.
- The team that demonstrates the most consistent participation in our safety campaign PowerCasts will be eligible to win the team award.
Photo credit: EDP Renewables
Social Media Survey
As part of the campaign, we’re looking to tell stories of the technicians and professionals in clean energy to highlight their on-the-job experiences.
Complete this social media survey to share a story of a time you or a colleague experienced a hazard or a near-miss or safety tips or best practices for preventing this hazard from occurring.
Completing the survey enters you to win one of the prizes described above!
Safety Hero Sponsor
Safety Today Sponsors
Social Media Toolkit
As we approach the 2024 Safety First Workforce Campaign, we’re asking the clean energy industry to join us in spreading awareness about the impact of human factors on worker safety performance and tools and strategies to enhance their performance. Amplify this campaign to promote a safer and more productive clean energy industry.
Access sample social media posts to amplify the news with our press kit. And, adapt your own graphics and copy to create your own posts using the toolkit.
Photo credit: AES
