Safety at the Core: PECO’s Commitment to Workforce Safety and Training

Approximately 3,000+ people power the safe, reliable energy you count on every day. The expertise, innovation, and commitment of PECO employees keeps the lights on and natural gas flowing for our customers.

We’re committed to their safety and success – which means we actively prioritize and invest in their training and resources to ensure employees can perform their roles without injury and effectively. We’re proud to have an industry-leading safety record, with strong performance in injury prevention.

Here’s what that means for our team:

A three-fold approach to storm safety

Our crews are ready to respond 24/7 to emergencies but restoring power during or immediately following a severe weather event is an inherently dangerous job. Meeting customers’ expectations for timely restoration requires employees to work additional hours. That’s why PECO takes a comprehensive, proactive approach to storm safety – focused on preparation, support, and long-term resiliency – while carefully managing overtime so it never comes at the expense of employee well-being.

• Training: Our rigorous training programs and specialized job aids reinforce safety, technical skills, and operational readiness across the workforce, with a special emphasis on critical events like storms. This preparation helps ensure employees can perform their work safely, even during extended response efforts.
• Proper resourcing: PECO activates approximately 100 emergency roles during storm events, deploying nearly all internal workers and supporting them with local field personnel for a rapid, coordinated response. This coordinated staffing approach helps manage overtime responsibly while maintaining safety, reliability, and efficiency during restoration.
• Storm hardening: As the severity and frequency of storms continues to increase, we are investing approximately $570 million over the next five years to improve the resiliency of our infrastructure and prevent storm-related outages – reducing the need for crews to work in hazardous weather while increasing reliability for our customers.

Ongoing, specialized training

We are continuously updating and enhancing our training programs to support process improvement, onboarding, specialized role development, and safety throughout the workforce; often based on feedback from employees and IBEW Local 614 members.

Recently, we have:

• Delivered over 299,856 training hours to more than 22,522 employees and contractors between 2022 and August 2025.
• Completed 2,397 training classes.
• Created a comprehensive driving school and curriculum for safe driving in partnership with IBEW Local 614.
• Provided hands-on technical training through our apprenticeship programs, infrastructure academy, and junior infrastructure academy (for high school students), with nearly 100 hires coming directly from those programs.
• Reinstated our Electric 101 training course, upon request from team members, to train back-office and non-field employees.

Our people are our greatest resources, and their safety isn’t optional. While they do work in challenging environments, we are committed to ensuring they have every support necessary to safely and successfully provide or restore energy to customers.