A Year’s Worth of News You Can Use
AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to publish various Quick Tips, Perspectives, and white papers throughout the year. Geared toward members who serve in operations and risk management roles, Quick Tips and white papers highlight the importance of inspection, maintenance, infrastructure, and employee and public safety. Our Perspectives publication shines a spotlight on a particular AEGIS leader and their group’s role within the organization.
Here’s a look back at the topics and employees we featured in 2022.
Quick Tips: New Training – Electric Incident Investigation for Utility First Responders
Over the past 15 years, AEGIS Loss Control professionals have offered over 80 in-person and, more recently, virtual Electric Incident Investigation Workshops to member companies. These day-and-a-half-long workshops provide AEGIS members with the information they need to properly investigate incidents involving inadvertent or unintentional contact with energized electric utility equipment and overhead lines.
AEGIS Loss Control White Paper: Steam Turbine/Generator Emergency Shutdown
AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to present its latest white paper on steam turbine and generator safety. This paper provides critical insight and in-depth guidance for securing turbine/generator oil systems to minimize equipment or building damage and for controlling and extinguishing an oil or hydrogen fire.
Click here to download your copy of this important AEGIS Loss Control safety white paper.
Quick Tips: Electrical Safety Training for Utility Employees
Did you know that AEGIS Loss Control provides its members with custom Electrical Safety Seminars designed to provide employers and employees with the information they need to identify and avoid workplace electrical hazards — electric shock, arc flash burns and arc blast injury — as part of a safe work environment?
Perspectives: Meet Dennis Mason – Senior Property Loss Control Professional, AEGIS
What do you get when you marry the expertise of a chemical engineer with insurance, power generation and automotive industry savvy? A professional who creates and leads the first Loss Control Working Group at AEGIS. As the co-lead of the Natural Gas Storage, Handling and Processing Working Group, Dennis knows how to bring people together, ask the hard questions and find the answers. Here he shares how AEGIS uses its working groups to support members.
Quick Tips: How Effective Is Your Steam Turbine Sequential Tripping Protection?
Do you know the sequential steps needed to prevent steam turbine generator overspeed events and associated collateral damage? In the latest issue of Quick Tips, AEGIS Loss Control gives a high-level overview of the steps needed in an effective sequential tripping program, the preferred shutdown method to prevent a steam turbine centrifugal explosion.
AEGIS Loss Control White Paper: Turbine Lubricating Oil Systems
AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to present its latest white paper on turbine lubricating oil systems. This paper outlines proactive operating, maintenance, training and record-keeping practices to ensure turbine-generator lubricating oil system readiness and reliability and prevent catastrophic failure and ensuing losses.
Click here to download your copy of this important AEGIS Loss Control safety white paper.
AEGIS Loss Control Focused Services℠
Did you know that AEGIS provides its member companies with 10 days of Loss Control Focused Services℠ per year? That’s exclusive access to AEGIS Loss Control professionals who work with members to design and implement customized utility-focused safety, training and risk mitigation programs to solve their specific risk issues.
Click here to learn more about AEGIS Loss Control Focused Services℠.
Quick Tips: Have You Developed Contingency Plans for the Upcoming Phaseout of Certain Gaseous Fire Suppression Agents?
Have you developed contingency plans for the upcoming EPA-mandated phaseout of certain hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used as fire suppression agents? This phasedown, which began January 1, 2022, will ultimately reduce HFC production by 85 percent, making these agents costly and difficult to obtain.
Perspectives: Meet Annie Wong – Senior Electric Utility Professional, AEGIS
To provide members with the support they need, AEGIS Loss Control professionals have to understand not only the utility business but their members, too. Annie, a Senior Electric Utility Professional for AEGIS, prides herself on listening to members with an open mind to provide a fresh perspective. Here she shares how she applies these skills to help AEGIS customize its Focused Services℠ to what members need.
Quick Tips: AEGIS Is Expanding Its Gas Operator Training Program
Did you know that AEGIS provides customized virtual and in-person Gas Operator Training as a value-added service to its members? In the latest edition of Quick Tips, AEGIS Loss Control gives an overview of some of our most popular Gas Operator Training programs and talks about how we are expanding our experienced Gas Operator Training team in response to growing member demand.
About Quick Tips
We send Quick Tips to the managers and operational professionals on our e-mail list, but please feel free to forward this to others in your organization who you feel may benefit. We would be pleased to add their names to the distribution list. Just let us know at quicktips@aegislimited.com.