State Grid Shangqiu Power Supply Company: Strengthening Core Safety Concepts Through Safety Culture Initiatives

This year, State Grid Shangqiu Power Supply Company has launched an ambitious initiative dubbed the “Hundreds, Thousands, and Sparks of Safety Culture”, encompassing six strategic actions “educating, inspiring, uniting, consolidating, infiltrating, and warming” aimed at transforming workplace safety posed by high turnover among outsourced teams, inconsistent safety competencies, and a lack of safety awareness and commitment among staff. By focusing on stringent entry requirements, intensive training, and mandatory assessments, the company aims to cultivate a resilient safety culture environment and fundamentally address these challenges at their root.

To ensure the successful implementation of this safety production initiative, county-level power supply companies have been actively promoting safety culture. The State Grid Minquan County Power Supply Company, in particular, has made significant strides in embedding safety culture by continuously publicizing, creating, and promoting safety initiatives. By focusing on the “three core concepts,” the company aims to further strengthen its safety production foundation, harnessing the collective motivation of its workforce to prioritize safety. This approach seeks to embed safety production principles deeply into the organizational ethos and foster proactive safety behaviors, thereby ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of safety culture development.

Minquan County Power Supply Company has intensified its advocacy of safety culture by emphasizing the “Promoting Safety Concept.” Through various formats, including tiered briefings by department heads, safety seminars, management-led safety courses, exposure of violations, case studies, creative arts competitions, awards for violation-free teams, safety photography contests, and the production of informational pocketbook guides, the company has effectively disseminated the ten core safety concepts and values of the State Grid Corporation. This ensures all employees understand these principles thoroughly, reinforcing the notion that “safety culture is the foundation and soul of safety production and the key to long-term stability.” The resulting safety atmosphere embodies the sentiment that “safety is personal, collective, and corporate,” thereby encouraging teams to adopt a proactive stance towards safety.

In its focus on the “enhancing concept,” State Grid Minquan County Power Supply Company has embraced the idea that “safety is technology, management, responsibility, and culture.” By aligning with higher-level safety culture directives and integrating these with the company’s operational context: its safety ecology, business development trends, and employee safety status, the company promotes cultural development within the safety production sphere. This includes initiatives such as safety culture work collections and the creation of cultural corridors, which aim to engage employees and ensure that safety culture initiatives are practical and effective. By integrating safety culture into the work environment through standardising equipment labels, visualising safety warnings, charting inspection prompts, and situating operational guidance, safety culture becomes tangible, visible, and applicable, enabling frontline team members to remain vigilant and adhere to standards, allowing safety culture to take root at grassroots levels.

Emphasizing “party-building concept,” State Grid Minquan County Power Supply Company has vigorously implemented a “Party Building + Safety Production” approach, leveraging the leadership role of party members. The responsibility system enforces a strict accountability for both party and administrative leaders through a dual-responsibility mandate, ensuring that the “three management principles and three musts” requirements are adhered to by all tiers and that safety is as much a priority as business operations. This approach reinforces risk management, hazard investigations, and anti-violation measures, connecting corporate safety philosophy with individual actions to ensure rigorous safety diligence. This commitment to accountability “responsible for the land, responsible for the safety, and accountable for the duties” further ingrains safety behaviors among all employees, reinforcing that safety principles are put into practice on the production floor.

Moving forward, State Grid Minquan County Power Supply Company remains committed to further strengthening the integration of safety culture and production practices. Guided by “Party-Building + Safety Production” initiatives, the company will extend multi-tiered advocacy efforts, disseminating safety concepts and exemplary practices to enhance employee awareness, engagement, and respect for safety culture. By doing so, they aim to embed safety culture deeper into frontline operations and on-site practices, thereby solidifying safety production responsibilities and management requirements at the grassroots level and strengthening the safety defence of the power grid. (By Wang Hui & Li Qi).