Cleco marks record year for safety

Cleco is celebrating a record year in safety for 2023 as the leader across the board in safety performance reports for the Southeastern Electric Exchange, a nonprofit, nonpolitical trade association of investor-owned electric utility companies founded in 1933.
In 2023, Cleco ranked No. 1 in the Southeast Electric Exchange’s Safety Performance Report in the following categories: Year-end Total Company, Year-end Transmission and Distribution Personnel, Year-end Fossil and Hydro Generation Personnel, and Year-end Support and Corporate Personnel. Cleco submits data quarterly to SEE each year and is compared to 15 other companies nationwide.
Cleco had one OSHA-recordable injury for the entire year, which was not life threatening.
"Safety is a core value at Cleco and this is the best safety record the company has ever had in its more than 85-year history,” said Maile Murray, director of environmental, health and safety at Cleco. “When you look at these results, it is evident that it took every single person in the company to stay focused and disciplined on a daily basis.”
Bill Fontenot, president and CEO of Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC, said the focus on a culture of safety is part of the company’s mission to be world-class.
“It takes everyone to get to where we are today with safety,” said Fontenot. “Being world-class is not achieved in one year, it’s a multi-year journey that continues.”
Following Cleco in the first quartile of the Year-end Total Company Safety Performance Report for 2023 were Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy and Entergy.
Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC is a regional energy holding company that conducts its business operations through its subsidiaries, Cleco Power LLC and Cleco Cajun LLC.
Cleco Power is a regulated electric public utility company that owns nine generating units with a rated capacity of 3,035 megawatts and serves approximately 291,000 customers in Louisiana through its retail business and supplies wholesale power in Louisiana and Mississippi. 
Cleco Cajun is an unregulated utility company that owns 14 generating units with a rated capacity of 3,379 megawatts and wholesale contracts serving electric cooperatives, municipalities, an electric utility and a nonprofit corporation.