LAND TRUST PRAISE - Alabama Power

TEAMWORK
BEST video wins top prize
in Pass It On safety contest
Birmingham Division Power Delivery employees
know one misstep can change a life forever.
With that message as their central theme,
Birmingham Division crews, local operations
linemen and engineers teamed to produce
an original video to remind employees of the
importance of putting safety first. Their creation
was selected the winner from among 11 entries
in the 2012 Pass It On Employee Safety Video
Contest.
“We hope the video will open our eyes and
remind us to focus even more on safety,” said Reid
Kincaid, Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters lead
lineman. “We incorporated things we have seen
in the past and things we can work on to make us
better.”
The video was the brainchild of the Birmingham
Employee Safety Team (BEST), said Kincaid.
Employees at Trussville, Hueytown, Gardendale,
Patton Chapel, Metro South, 12th Street and
safety briefings or identify, control and eliminate
(ICE),” said Keith Gibson, safety specialist, HR-
Safety and Health. “The idea was to get them
more engaged with Target Zero and increase their
participation in the safety process.”
A committee of seven judges from Corporate
Headquarters, Generation, Power Delivery and
Distribution screened and evaluated the entries
based on three criteria – creativity, content and
theme. The top three videos were posted on
Powerlines in December, with employees voting on
their favorite entry.
On Jan. 2, Birmingham Division Power Delivery
was announced the winner, receiving 57 percent
of the votes. The group will be honored with an
engraved trophy at an upcoming BEST meeting.
“We were really pleased with the overall response
from the safety committees who worked so hard to
produce the videos and from the employees who
voted on them,” said Corporate Safety and Health
Photos by Wynter Byrd
ON THE COVER:
Alabama Power was honored
for its work in promoting
conservation.
Patton Chapel Crew Headquarters Lead Lineman Jason Wood showed the need for getting rest in the
Birmingham Division video.
Varnons Crew Headquarters took part in the
project, with each facility responsible for writing,
producing and performing a scene in the video.
In addition, division employees with a musical
bent put their talent to work by writing lyrics
and performing their own “safety songs” to help
reinforce the message.
“We gave the crews and engineers the general
idea behind the video, and then let them take over
and create their own part,” said LaClaire Douglass,
Metro South Office engineer, who with Kincaid
and others led the project. “We asked them to show
that working each and every day to make those safe
decisions is what will bring employees home safely
to their families.”
The other video contest finalists were Corporate
Real Estate and the Power Delivery Distribution
Management System.
In the second half of 2012, Alabama Power
launched the video contest to help keep the focus
on Target Zero and the 2012 Pass It On theme.
“We asked all the safety committees to create
locally produced videos using topics such as job
Manager Charlie Shaw. “It is our hope the videos
will also help all our employees who watched
them remember to keep their focus on safety in
everything they do.”
By Carla Davis
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