Powering up for safe work life

Power station staff are celebrating a significant safety milestone after the base reached 10 years without anyone having to take time off due to an injury at work.

Since March 2008, staff and contractors at Hunterston B have worked more than 18.2 million hours in total without a Lost Time Injury ( LTI).

It marks the longest run across all eight UK nuclear power stations.

Over the past few years Hunterston B has been leading the rest of the nuclear fleet in its approach to industrial safety by developing new ways to embed safety in everyday business.

The Safe Start campaign, which takes place each January, includes a team from the station developing two Virtual Reality videos, one of which was used to help workers stay safe during last year’s statutory outage.

Technical and Safety Manager, Roddy Angus, said: “EDF Energy takes safety extremely seriously.

“It is embedded in our culture; we start every meeting by discussing a Daily Safety message to ensure that when people go out to work on the plant safety is at the forefront of their minds.

“We want to ensure that the power station is a safe and healthy workplace but we could not do it without the hard work and diligence of our staff and contractors so I’m incredibly proud to be able to celebrate this landmark with the people who work here.”

In 2017, Hunterston B power station generated enough electricity to power 1.8 million homes and has been producing low carbon electricity since 1976.