Success Stories for Maryland
SMECO: Uncompromised Safety: Southern Maryland Electric Co-op, (SMECO) (MD-004), Hughesville, Maryland, earned the Rural Electric Safety Accreditation Program Certificate of Excellence for Safety for the tenth consecutive time-and its score has been higher each time.
SMECO achieved an overall score of 99 percent from the accreditation program, which includes a peer review process, an audit program and on-site inspection of SMECO's system by a team of trained observers.
This involves a lot of work on the part of everyone," said Jim Grow, SMECO's job training and safety manager. "We never would have completed the accreditation with such a high score without everyone's support, and it begins at the top. Our CEO tells his people there is nothing more important than safety."
Compliments of NRECA's "Electric Co-op TODAY", April 21, 2006 edition, Volume 12, Number 15.
May 2006
STANDING AGAINST ABUSE: Employees of Southern Maryland Electric Co-op (SMECO) (MD-004), Hughesville, Maryland, donated $17,925 garnered through fund-raising activities during 2005 to the Center for Abused Persons in Waldorf, Maryland. The donation was the largest ever received by the private, non-profit agency, which provides services to victims of domestic violence and other abuse in Charles County, Maryland. SMECO President and CEO, Joe Slater, and other co-op leaders presented a check to Annette Gilbert Jackson, the Center's Executive Director.
February 2006