Safety
Performance summary 2022/2023
Overview of outputs
1No improvement notices, prohibition notices and prosecutions from the Health and Safety Executive(See note 1 below).No improvement notices were issued or prosecutions made relating to the current price control during 2022/23.
We have appealed two HSE prohibition notices, issued in previous regulatory years, and will provide details of the outcome at the end of the appeals process.
2Complete work programmes to meet the Electricity, Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations (ESQCR) 2002. ESQCR requires that overhead lines are a safe distance from either structures or the ground.We have completed the programme for clearance distances to structures for all regions.
We have completed 100% of the work scheduled in 2022/23 relating to the required ground clearance distances.
3Complete inspection and maintenance programmes every year.We completed all of the work scheduled for the year except for a very small number of tasks. We put in place appropriate plans to manage these safely until the work was completed.
Overview of outputs
4Reduce our overall rate for the frequency of accidents by 10%.(See note 1 below).Our accident rate in 2022/23 is better than the 10% improvement target set for the whole of RIIO-ED1.
5Continue to play an active part in the ENA’s ‘Powering Improvement’ initiative, which aims to lead to improved safety performance.We took an active role in the Powering Improvement steering group to help develop materials to support the theme of promoting a positive health and safety culture.
6Work with our trade unions to improve safety performance, including the use of more ‘behavioural safety’ initiatives.During RIIO-ED1 NGED has delivered a wide variety of behavioural safety training to its staff. Using this training as a foundation, during 2022/23 we have continued to reinforce key behavioural safety principles.
7Investigate all accidents involving members of the public, contractors or our own staff to make sure that learning points are quickly understood and communicated.(See note 2 below).We investigated all 71 incidents that happened during the year (48 staff accidents, 14 contractor accidents and 9 significant incidents involving the public).
Overview of outputs
8Improve security measures at 50 substation sites to reduce the number of repeat break-ins(See note 1 below).The number of repeat break-ins has been lower than predicted. In RIIO-ED1, we have upgraded security measures at 21 sites that have had repeat break-ins.
Overview of outputs
9Organise and run over 1,000 educational sessions to provide safety information to over 400,000 schoolchildren.(See note 1 below).We have exceeded our target and have delivered a total of 23,371 educational sessions to 546,350 schoolchildren
10Continue to publish literature on maintaining safety around electrical apparatus and send more than 500,000 copies of this literature to targeted landowners, businesses or leisure operators.(See note 1 below).Over the course of RIIO-ED1, we have issued over 4,821,587 instances of safety leaflets and made these available to targeted groups through social media.
Note 1: Targets are for the full eight year RIIO-ED1 period, not for a discrete year
Note 2: Target to be achieved each year of RIIO-ED1