I recently attended a RESAP Area Administrators meeting in Louisville, KY when Bud Branham, Director of Safety Programs at NRECA began the meeting with a statement something like this:

Ohio volunteered to work with NRECA International on a project in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to conduct training for technicians of mini-grid systems who have been asked to work with primary voltage systems (11kV Delta) for…

The Entry-Level Driver Training program is running strong and smooth with 10 of Ohio’s distribution cooperatives now actively participating.

Federated Insurance and NRECA have been working together with Pike Electric and the RESAP Area Administrators to bring virtual reality to cooperatives across the nation.

Our ST&LP instructors are currently on the road with the 4th quarter safety meetings. For this quarter, Jason Woods is focusing on UTV’s, skid steers, trenchers, and mini excavators.

Phase 2 of the Commitment to Zero Contacts sessions continued in 2023 with nine sessions which were facilitated in conjunction with RESAP.

The ST&LP department recently brought in Phil Kelley of Rowen Tree Services in Seattle, WA to conduct training in Ohio. Phil and Dwight visited the four Ohio cooperatives who have their own ROW crews.