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California Public Utilities Commission Public Discussion on Pacific Gas and Electric Forums on Governance, Management, and
Safety Culture
April 15, 2019 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
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Safety Announcement
Safety is our number one priority
Please listen to the emergency
evacuation instructions for this
location
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Welcome & Commissioner Remarks
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Agenda9:00 – 1:15 p.m. MORNING
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Safety Announcement & Welcome from Commissioners
9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Presentation on Corporate Safety
9:45 – 10:10 a.m. Presentation on the Findings of the Phase 1 Northstar Report
10:10 – 10:20 a.m. Break
10:20 – 11:45 a.m. Panel on the Impact of Corporate Governance on Corporate Culture, including Safety Culture
11:45 – 12:15 p.m. Questions from Public
12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break
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1:15 – 4:05 p.m AFTERNOON
1:15 – 2:10 p.m. Panel on Corporate Leadership from the Ground Up
2:10 – 2:30 p.m. Questions from Public
2:30 – 2:50 p.m. PG&E Board of Directors Selection Process and Purpose
2:50 – 3:20 p.m. Questions from Commissioners
3:20 – 3:50 p.m. Public Comment
3:50 – 4:05 p.m. Commissioner Closing Remarks
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Presentation on Corporate
Safety
Professor Dave Hofmann
University of North Carolina
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Organizational Safety Culture
David A. Hofmann, Ph.D.
McColl Distinguished Professor & Sr. Associate Dean
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Organizational failures
Organizational culture & climate
Complexity of middle management decision making
Conclusions and questions
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Unsafe Acts
• Violations
• Errors
Supervision/ Climate
• Value on safety, risk
• Micro-decisions
Management Decisions
• Resource allocation
• “Hit” production targets
Organizational
Factors
• Culture of safety
• Risk taking
Almost always a combination of:• Violations (lack of compliance)• Human error• Management decision making• Broader system influences (time pressure, business frame)
Virtually All Organizational / Operational
Failures
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Deep Layer of Culture
(Assumptions, Values)
Espoused policies, priorities,
practices
Zohar & Hofmann, 2012
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Managers
implementationDiscretion
Competing
priorities
Enacted Priorities
Gap: Espoused vs. Enacted
Zohar & Hofmann, 2012
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Zohar & Luria, 2005
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Stronger commitment
from Sr. Management
reduces perceived /
actual discretion in
other levels of the
organization
Zohar & Luria, 2005
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LeadershipStrong Priority
of Safety
Throughout
Ownership
& Voice
Hofmann & Morgeson, 1999;
Hofmann, Morgeson, & Gerras, 2003
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Effective general leadership
Mindful that every decision communicates what is valued, expected, rewarded, and supported
Strong priority of safety
Upward safety communication is valued
Peers who value safety and help support
Safety knowledge and training
Encourage compliance & participation
Model & reward proactive behaviors
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Drift into
Failure
Project execution plan (normative)
Resource scarcity & production
pressure lead to local modification
Structural Secrecy “hides” local modifications
No immediate safety/risk
materializes
Local Modifications
Become Normalized
Adapted from: Dekker (2011). Drifting into failure. Ashgate
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Adapted from: Dekker (2011). Drifting into failure. Ashgate
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Drifting into Failure
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How do you
Keep potential harm front and center
Keep more tangible targets from overwhelming ambiguous “dynamic non-event” targets
Build a culture of true learning and not superstitious learning
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Conclusions
• We know– Critical role of safety culture/climate
– It is top-down and bottom-up process
– Foundations are leadership and safety priority
– Large scale failures are system failures
– Occupational safety is not process safety
• Mindful of decisions made in the middle and potential drift
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Presentation on the Findings of
the NorthStar Update Report
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GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
FORUM
INVESTIGATION 15-08-019
PG&E’S SAFETY CULTURE
PRESENTATION
APRIL 15, 2019
NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
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TOPICS
• Scope of NorthStar’s Review
• PG&E’s System/Service Territory
• Review Activities
• Key Findings and Conclusions
– Initial Assessment
– First Update
• NorthStar Consulting Group
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
SCOPE OF NORTHSTAR’S REVIEW
NorthStar was asked to review PG&E’s safety culture considering the following
questions posed by the Commission in I. 15-08-019:
• Do PG&E’s organizational failures cited by the NTSB continue?
• Is PG&E realizing improvement with sufficient speed or does PG&E’s progress suffer
from impediments within the control of the company?
• Are the improvements PG&E has made (i.e., organizational changes) as widespread and
deep as are necessary for a long-lasting and sustainable safety culture?
AND
• Why are the traditional tools of enforcement not working to prevent safety incidents and
promote a high-functioning safety culture?
• What additional actions can the Commission take to realize a high-functioning safety
culture at PG&E?
Upon completion of the initial report, NorthStar was asked to assess PG&E’s
implementation of selected, critical recommendations.
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
PG&E’S SYSTEM/SERVICE TERRITORY
PG&E provides natural gas and electric
service to approximately 16 million
people throughout a 70,000-square-mile
service area in northern and central
California
• 70,000 square-mile service area
• 5.4 million electric customer accounts
– 106,681 miles of distribution lines
– 18,466 miles of transmission lines
• 4.3 million natural gas customer
accounts
– 42,141 miles of distribution pipeline
– 6,438 miles of transmission pipeline
• Nuclear, fossil, solar and hydro power
• 24,000 employees
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
REVIEW ACTIVITIES
• Reviewed response to over 1,000 information requests
• Conducted over 300 interviews with:
– Executive Management
– The Board of Directors (BOD)
– Representatives from all three unions (IBEW, ESC and SEIU)
– PG&E safety program SMEs
– PG&E management and operations personnel within the Lines of Business (LOB)
and Corporate Safety at all levels
– Contractor personnel (during site visits and meeting)
• Attended BOD and Committee meetings
• Observed senior executive field visits
• Observed PG&E and contractor construction and maintenance crews
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
REVIEW ACTIVITIES
• Conducted site/facility visits to:
– Diablo Canyon
– San Ramon, Livermore and Tracy Training Centers
– Wildfire Safety Operations Center
– Gas Control Center
– Feather River Power Houses and Control Center
– Clayton (Lower Lake) Fire Base Camp
– Numerous Field Offices/Service Centers: San Francisco, Daly City, Oakland,
Hayward, Sonora, Chico, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Pismo Beach, Fresno,
Auburn, King City, Monterey, Salinas, Antioch, Manteca, Stockton, Needles,
Hinkley, Oakport and Modesto
• Attended numerous internal meetings, including:
– Enterprise Safety Committee
– LOB Safety Councils
– Enterprise and LOB Risk and Compliance Committees
– Officer and Director Safety Summit
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
KEY FINDINGS - INITIAL REVIEW
(MAY 2017)
• Essentially operating as two utilities
• Safety organization suffered from turnover, lack of safety credentials, and
organizational placement
• Safety push from corporate with limited input from field resources evidence in
initiatives and training
• Lack of clarity of roles and responsibilities between corporate and the LOBs
• Lack of a coordinated comprehensive safety strategy
• Numerous initiatives aimed at solving the problem without sufficient analytics
• Insufficient focus on supervisory requirements and supervisor time in the field
• Cultural differences between the LOBs, between districts/offices and between
crews
• Stronger focus on safety improvements in gas operations as a result of San
Bruno
• Positive shift from disciplinary focus and blame to speak up culture and
learning from incidents
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
KEY FINDINGS – FIRST UPDATE
(MARCH 2019)
• Corporate Safety elevated within the organization, and reporting to the Safety
and Nuclear Oversight Committee of the Board
• Continued evolution of the speak up culture and learning from incidents
• Improvements in the corporate safety organization resources
• Development of a One PG&E Occupational Health and Safety Strategy
providing increased consistency
– Greater analytics but still numerous initiatives
– Primarily employee and contractor safety
• Continued corporate push with limited input from field
• Insufficient focus on supervisory requirements and supervisor time in the field
• Increased structure in safety reporting at the Board and executive levels
• Ongoing cultural differences between the LOBs, between districts/offices and
between crews
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NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP 33
• Full service management consulting firm founded in CA in 1999
• Specializes in the utility industry
– Gas, electric and water
– Commissions and utilities (investor-owned, public and municipal utilities)
• All aspects of utility operations
– Field operations
– Customer operations
– Executive management and corporate governance
– Finance and budgeting
– Strategic planning and enterprise risk management
– Performance management
– System planning
– Project and work management
– Safety
NORTHSTAR CONSULTING GROUP
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Impact of Governance on Corporate
Culture, including Safety Culture
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Moderator: Carla Peterman, Commissioner, Commission
on Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery
Panelists
Ken Bertsch, Executive Director of the Council of
Institutional Investors
Kenneth Feinberg, Former Director of Executive Compensation, Department of the Treasury
Susan “Suz” Mac Cormac, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Lynn Paine, Professor and Senior Associate Dean,
Harvard Business School
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Questions from the Public
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Lunch Break
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Corporate Leadership from the
Ground Up
Moderator: JB Tengco, West Coast Director, BlueGreen
Alliance
Panelists
Tom Dalzell, Business Manager, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1245
Alyssa Giachino, Senior Research and Policy Manager, United Auto Workers
David Hofmann, Professor, University of North Carolina
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Questions from the Public
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PG&E Board of Directors
Selection Process and Purpose
Richard Kelly
PG&E
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Questions from
Commissioners
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Public Comment
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Commissioner Closing
Remarks