East Haddam Eversource Safety Supervisor Honored for Work at State Police Training Facility

MERIDEN, CT - A team of six Eversource employees was recently honored by the company for creating an electrical safety training “mockup” at the Connecticut State Police Academy in Meriden.

The mockup, equipped with overhead lines, poles, and transformers looks like the equipment you see on the street, according to a release. The facility hopes to help state police recruits and troopers train for potential real-life electrical emergency scenarios.

Lineworkers Craig Crowley of Torrington, Cliff Philipp of Bolton, Andrew Steffens of Stratford, and Mike Suvoski of Derby performed the construction of the project with Jim Pagliaro, a supervisor in electric field operations from Trumbull and Warren Rogers, a safety supervisor for Eversource, from East Haddam.

Eversource was happy to partner with the state police on this project. In addition to constructing the mockup, Eversource provided a lesson plan detailing multiple electrical emergency scenarios for the academy to train for using the equipment.

“It’s important to me,” Rogers said in a release. “The reason we donated the equipment is to prevent any officers from losing their lives in the field from an electrical accident.”

Rogers teaches hundreds of electrical safety classes to first responders across the state.

All six employees were all honored with the Eversource Customer Excellence Award for going above and beyond their usual scope of work to provide superior customer service.

Images courtesy Farrah Duffany.