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Taking care of our valued employees It may sound cliché, but Great River Energy truly values its employees. Our 850+ employees really are the organization’s greatest asset. We work hard to provide them with the safest and healthiest working environments, give them opportunities to volunteer and serve the community, and compensate them fairly for their hard work and dedication. |
Healthy employees are happy and productive employees. Great River Energy offers a broad range of medical plans for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and their dependents, and pays a significant portion of the cost to ensure all employees receive affordable and comprehensive health care.
Great River Energy also helps employees manage health care costs by offering healthy lifestyle education opportunities. The lifestyle choices employees make affect their health and quality of life – both today and in the future. Our health management program includes an employee health risk questionnaire (HRQ) and a health management incentive (HMI). These tools reward individuals who actively manage their health by getting regular preventive care, being knowledgeable about their health and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The HRQ provides each individual with personalized health information and tools for personal health improvement. The HMI is designed to reward individuals for actively managing their health with a cash incentive.
Another healthy lifestyle resource offered to our employees is our Energy for Life wellness initiative. We sponsor Energy for Life Committees which consist of employees from across the organization. The Energy for Life members act as wellness advocates and are responsible for building interest in wellness efforts at Great River Energy.
Success sharingGreat River Energy also offers employees a Success Sharing Plan. This monetary incentive plan gives employees an opportunity to share in the success of the organization by setting annual operational and financial goals. The Employee Success Sharing Plan is part of Great River Energy’s overall Total Reward Philosophy, which also consists of base pay, benefits, recognition and our work culture.
Great River Energy works with all employees and contractors to promote a culture of safety for our employees, families and community.
At Great River Energy, we do all we can to keep our employees safe. One example is at our Coal Creek Station near Underwood, North Dakota. Coal Creek Station was the first power plant in the United States to become registered to the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHS S) 18001 standard. The purpose of the OHS S program is to promote overall safety, improve personal safety, and conduct third-party audits of safety and safety training programs. Coal Creek Station’s safety policy contains a commitment to continuous improvement of the safety program and prevention of injury and ill health.
You can read more about how we take care of our employees in our 2009 Social Responsibility Report.
