{"id":18921,"date":"2014-09-27T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2014-09-26T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T21:20:05","slug":"cde-lightband-achieves-perfect-score-on-safety-audit-3rd-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/09\/27\/cde-lightband-achieves-perfect-score-on-safety-audit-3rd-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"CDE Lightband Achieves Perfect Score on Safety Audit 3rd Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-61521\" title=\"Clarksville Department of Electricity - CDE - CDE Lightband\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Clarksville-Department-of-Electricity.gif\" alt=\"Clarksville Department of Electricity - CDE - CDE Lightband\" width=\"240\" height=\"61\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; CDE Lightband recently achieved a perfect score during a facilities safety audit coordinated by Tennessee Valley Public Power Association and Distributors Insurance Company. Less than five percent of utility participants in the Tennessee Valley have obtained such a score historically.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Powell, a 39-year veteran with utility business and a Certified Utility Safety Administrator, conducted the audit.<!--more-->\u201cCDE Lightband has developed a culture that puts the safety of its employees and the public first\u201d, said Powell. \u201cIt is clear that CDE Lightband takes a very proactive approach to safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Out of 260 items on the auditor\u2019s checklist, not a single item was reported for noncompliance, resulting in the perfect score. The auditor commended the utility for outstanding safety practices with its job sites, vehicles and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDE Lightband is committed to employee safety and the safety of the general public,\u201d said Brian Taylor, CDE Lightband superintendent. \u201cThis score is the result of a team effort by our employees who work hard to cultivate a positive safety attitude at our offices and out in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CDE Lightband is a municipal electric and broadband services provider serving approximately 65,000 electric customers and 18,000 broadband customers within the city limits of Clarksville, TN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; CDE Lightband recently achieved a perfect score during a facilities safety audit coordinated by Tennessee Valley Public Power Association and Distributors Insurance Company. Less than five percent of utility participants in the Tennessee Valley have obtained such a score historically. Steve Powell, a 39-year veteran with utility business and a Certified Utility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14874,3313,825,24115,24114],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-brian-taylor","tag-cde-lightband","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-steve-powell","tag-tennessee-valley-public-power-association-and-distributors-insurance-company"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4Vb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18922,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions\/18922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}