Protecting Our People and Communities
Constellation fosters a safe, diverse and innovative workplace that strives to keep employees engaged in meaningful and important work. We provide our people with competitive compensation and benefits, a culture of entrepreneurship and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We pride ourselves on bringing employees together in a collaborative environment that inspires new ideas and embraces diverse perspectives.
At Constellation, we integrate safety and health into every level of our company, beginning with each individual employee. Every day, our employees perform a wide range of critical work activities which are inherently dangerous work. Through the strength of our safety programs and the commitment of our employees and leadership, Constellation achieves top-tier safety performance. We reinforce safe work practices and identify potential risks before an incident occurs through peer-to-peer and manager safety observations. By recording safety observations, documenting near misses and tracking incident trends, we systematically identify issues and pinpoint improvement opportunities.
Engaging our employees on safety is a critical component of creating our safety culture. One way we motivate employee involvement in safety innovations is through Safety Achievement Awards. The awards are peer-nominated and awarded to employees who go beyond their normal job duties to make work safer and, in some cases, to improve public safety as well. On behalf of each winner, Constellation donates to an environmental or safety-related nonprofit selected by the team members. Donations are also made on behalf of the Honorable Mention teams for environment and safety.
At Constellation, we often test innovative methods for improving safety performance. We leverage technology to reduce employee risk exposure while improving service. Some areas where we have sought to improve our safety performance through technology include:
Drone aircrafts for wind turbine inspections can limit the risk to employees while improving inspection quality and speed.
Our power plants completed a pilot using thermal imaging from FLIR Systems. The FLIR ONE Pro assists in finding invisible problems. Applications include inspecting electrical panels; troubleshooting mechanical systems; looking for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning problems or finding water damage. These products are also utilized for COVID-19 personnel temperature screening.
Our nuclear facilities continue to implement robotic submersibles to reduce the need for divers.
As the largest nuclear power plant operator in the United States, nuclear safety is a fundamental element of our license to operate. We diligently manage nuclear wastes - both low-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel - safely, securely and responsibly. We must always remain in compliance with the stringent requirements of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Throughout the pandemic, we remained focused on providing safe, clean, affordable and reliable energy to our customers and communities. Our employees understand the essential role we play in ensuring the lights are on and the gas is flowing - in emergency response centers, hospitals and across our communities. We are proud of the ability of our workforce to adapt to these challenging conditions.
Given the crucial importance of energy to our communities, Constellation already had in place robust emergency and contingency plans to maintain operations and business continuity. At the start of the pandemic, we activated the executive-level Crisis Management Team to coordinate our overall response. We also connected with industry organizations to ensure we were sharing and applying best practices.
Once our team moved into long-term pandemic response operations, we shifted focus from daily needs, like securing the personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chain, to supporting vaccine distribution and ultimately using the lessons learned to develop new and more flexible workspace arrangements. We developed criteria and plans for responsible re-entry to the workplace. Throughout the pandemic, we maintained a clear focus on our employees, our customers, and our communities.
Constellation’s leadership and safety and occupational health professionals have worked tirelessly to keep our employees and customers safe by ensuring adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance and compliance with state and local requirements. Our actions aim to protect the health of our employees and customers and reduce virus transmission by:
Providing proper protective gear and sanitizer
Implementing screening protocols for essential workers
Updating policies to limit person-to-person contact and ensure social distancing
Enhancing cleaning and disinfecting protocols and frequency
Enabling remote work as much as possible
Limiting travel to only essential activities that cannot be performed remotely
Although responding to COVID-19 was challenging, we gained understanding that is helping us shape the workplace of the future at Constellation. Shortly after we directed a large subset of our employees to work remotely, which they did for nearly two years, we learned that productivity was not adversely impacted; costs associated with travel and other activities decreased; and employees highly valued the flexibility of working remotely, something we had not generally done prior to COVID-19. As we look to the future, we plan to have some employees working remotely on a regular basis while some will have the flexibility to work remotely at times; some employees will still need to report to Constellation power plants, field operations and office locations. This arrangement will give employees the flexibility they desire and contribute to reducing operating costs.
At Constellation, we integrate safety and health into every level of our company, beginning with each individual employee. Every day, our employees perform a wide range of critical work activities which are inherently dangerous work. Through the strength of our safety programs and the commitment of our employees and leadership, Constellation achieves top-tier safety performance. We reinforce safe work practices and identify potential risks before an incident occurs through peer-to-peer and manager safety observations. By recording safety observations, documenting near misses and tracking incident trends, we systematically identify issues and pinpoint improvement opportunities.
Engaging our employees on safety is a critical component of creating our safety culture. One way we motivate employee involvement in safety innovations is through Safety Achievement Awards. The awards are peer-nominated and awarded to employees who go beyond their normal job duties to make work safer and, in some cases, to improve public safety as well. On behalf of each winner, Constellation donates to an environmental or safety-related nonprofit selected by the team members. Donations are also made on behalf of the Honorable Mention teams for environment and safety.
At Constellation, we often test innovative methods for improving safety performance. We leverage technology to reduce employee risk exposure while improving service. Some areas where we have sought to improve our safety performance through technology include:
Drone aircrafts for wind turbine inspections can limit the risk to employees while improving inspection quality and speed.
Our power plants completed a pilot using thermal imaging from FLIR Systems. The FLIR ONE Pro assists in finding invisible problems. Applications include inspecting electrical panels; troubleshooting mechanical systems; looking for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning problems or finding water damage. These products are also utilized for COVID-19 personnel temperature screening.
Our nuclear facilities continue to implement robotic submersibles to reduce the need for divers.
As the largest nuclear power plant operator in the United States, nuclear safety is a fundamental element of our license to operate. We diligently manage nuclear wastes - both low-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel - safely, securely and responsibly. We must always remain in compliance with the stringent requirements of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Throughout the pandemic, we remained focused on providing safe, clean, affordable and reliable energy to our customers and communities. Our employees understand the essential role we play in ensuring the lights are on and the gas is flowing - in emergency response centers, hospitals and across our communities. We are proud of the ability of our workforce to adapt to these challenging conditions.
Given the crucial importance of energy to our communities, Constellation already had in place robust emergency and contingency plans to maintain operations and business continuity. At the start of the pandemic, we activated the executive-level Crisis Management Team to coordinate our overall response. We also connected with industry organizations to ensure we were sharing and applying best practices.
Once our team moved into long-term pandemic response operations, we shifted focus from daily needs, like securing the personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chain, to supporting vaccine distribution and ultimately using the lessons learned to develop new and more flexible workspace arrangements. We developed criteria and plans for responsible re-entry to the workplace. Throughout the pandemic, we maintained a clear focus on our employees, our customers, and our communities.
Constellation’s leadership and safety and occupational health professionals have worked tirelessly to keep our employees and customers safe by ensuring adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance and compliance with state and local requirements. Our actions aim to protect the health of our employees and customers and reduce virus transmission by:
Providing proper protective gear and sanitizer
Implementing screening protocols for essential workers
Updating policies to limit person-to-person contact and ensure social distancing
Enhancing cleaning and disinfecting protocols and frequency
Enabling remote work as much as possible
Limiting travel to only essential activities that cannot be performed remotely
Although responding to COVID-19 was challenging, we gained understanding that is helping us shape the workplace of the future at Constellation. Shortly after we directed a large subset of our employees to work remotely, which they did for nearly two years, we learned that productivity was not adversely impacted; costs associated with travel and other activities decreased; and employees highly valued the flexibility of working remotely, something we had not generally done prior to COVID-19. As we look to the future, we plan to have some employees working remotely on a regular basis while some will have the flexibility to work remotely at times; some employees will still need to report to Constellation power plants, field operations and office locations. This arrangement will give employees the flexibility they desire and contribute to reducing operating costs.
