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Safety Culture Assessments

Energy Safety conducts annual safety culture assessments for each electrical corporation.
In 2019, California Assembly Bill 1054 added an annual safety culture assessment requirement to the Public Utilities Code. Public Utilities Code Section 8389(d)(4) requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in consultation with the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), to develop a process for an annual Safety Culture Assessment for each electrical corporation. The original safety culture assessment framework was adopted by the California Public Utilities Commission (the Commission or CPUC) on November 19, 2020, in Resolution WSD-011. It includes a workforce survey, a management self-assessment, and submission of safety culture objectives and lessons learned. The first Safety Culture Assessment took place in 2021.

Energy Safety seeks to develop a longitudinal view of safety culture across electrical corporations to identify best practices and relative gaps, along with an understanding of each corporation’s relative strengths and opportunities in designing and implementing a strong safety culture. Energy Safety ultimately seeks to assess safety culture outcomes over time and incorporate continuous learning into the Safety Culture Assessment process.

2025

Energy Safety Documents and Docket Log


Electrical Corporations’ Safety Culture Assessments

Comments on the 2024 Draft Safety Culture Assessment Guidelines

CPUC Resolution – 2025 SCA Process

2024

Energy Safety Documents and Docket Log

Electrical Corporations’ Safety Culture Assessments

  • Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
  • Southern California Edison (SCE)
  • San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)
  • Bear Valley Electric Service (BVES)
  • Liberty Utilities (Liberty)
  • PacifiCorp
  • Horizon West Transmission (HWT)
  • Trans Bay Cable (TBC)
  • LS Power Grid California (LS Power)

Comments on the 2024 Draft Safety Culture Assessment Guidelines

CPUC Resolution – 2025 SCA Process

2023

Energy Safety Documents and Docket Log

Electrical Corporations’ Safety Culture Assessments

Comments on the 2023 Draft Safety Culture Assessment Guidelines

• Joint IOU Comments on the Draft 2023 SCA Guidelines – 3/27/23

CPUC Resolution – 2024 SCA Process

 

2022

Energy Safety Documents and Docket Log

Electrical Corporations’ Safety Culture Assessments

Comments on the 2022 Draft Safety Culture Assessment Guidelines

Energy Safety received the following comments in February 2022:

CPUC Resolution – 2023 SCA Process

2021

Energy Safety Documents and Docket Log

Electrical Corporations’ Safety Culture Assessments

Comments on the 2021 Draft Safety Culture Assessment Requirements

CPUC Resolution – 2022 SCA Process

2020

CPUC Resolution – 2021 SCA Process

Data Requests

Wildfire Mitigation and Safety

Safety Culture Assessments