Sioux Valley Energy Recognized for Culture of Safety Excellence
Sioux Valley Energy was awarded the 2024 Leroy Vanderpool Excellence in Safety Award at the Minnesota Rural Electric Trust (MRET) annual meeting held on June 13 at Breezy Point, Minnesota. The cooperative was recognized for its culture which centers around the safety of employees, members, and the public along with Sioux Valley Energy’s work to move that culture to a new level of excellence.
“Sioux Valley Energy strives to continually advance our safety culture and recently held a strategy session to discuss ways to create an environment yet to be realized in our industry. We collectively hold ourselves to high standards and set progressive goals in building an organization that recognizes people first. If you get that correct, great results naturally follow. I view this award as a testimony to the effort every person at Sioux Valley has put forth to build this culture of excellence. Our folks are committed, and they live it every day,” said General Manager and CEO Tim McCarthy.
The MRET Leroy Vanderpool Excellence in Safety Award is presented annually in memory of Leroy Vanderpool who passed away in 2006 of Lou Gehrig’s disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Vanderpool spent his career in the field of electric utility safety and was the loss control manager at East Central Energy in Braham, Minnesota.
Hear what the honor means to the Safety Steering Committee and all Sioux Valley Energy employees on the Inside the Grid podcast.