PG&E Appoints Industrial Safety Expert Francisco Benavides as Chief Safety Officer
February 07 2020 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Will Be Key Leader in Company’s Ongoing Work
to Improve Operational Safety Performance for its Customers and
Communities
As part of their commitment to strengthening public and
workforce safety, PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric
Company (together, “PG&E” or “the company”) today announced the
appointment of Francisco Benavides to the position of Vice
President and Chief Safety Officer.
With his election by the Boards of Directors, Benavides joins
PG&E from Alcoa Corporation, where he most recently served as
Vice President of Environmental, Health and Safety. He brings 30
years of industrial safety, health and environmental experience to
his new role.
Consistent with PG&E’s amended Plan of Reorganization,
Benavides will report directly to Bill Johnson, Chief Executive
Officer and President of PG&E Corporation. His role is
effective March 9, 2020.
Benavides’ appointment is the result of a national search to
fill this vitally important position, which is key to PG&E’s
efforts to renew its focus on operational safety as the company
continues to make progress toward exiting Chapter 11.
“We welcome Francisco’s extensive knowledge and global
experience—across many industry sectors—that he brings to PG&E
at this critical time for California. I know that he is committed
to upholding our most important responsibility, which is keeping
our customers, communities and workforce safe every single day. We
look forward to Francisco applying his global and multi-dimensional
safety experience to all parts of PG&E as we work to improve
and sustain our operational performance, even in the face of
climate-driven risks for our state and our energy infrastructure,”
said Johnson.
In his new position, Benavides will be responsible and held
accountable for:
- Protecting the safety of PG&E’s customers, communities and
workforce;
- Setting the company’s workforce (including employee and
contractor) and public safety strategy;
- Establishing governing standards and expectations for safety
implementation across the company;
- Ensuring adherence to those standards;
- Supporting the company’s operational safety execution;
- Working to hone and mature PG&E’s safety culture; and
- Identifying areas of safety risk and developing preventive and
corrective action plans.
Before Alcoa, Benavides held increasingly more senior leadership
positions over safety, health and environmental functions with
other global companies including Hexcel Corporation, Rio Tinto and
Intel Corporation.
He holds a Doctorate in Environmental Science from Oklahoma
State University, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from
West Virginia University, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical
Engineering from the Universidad de Costa Rica. Benavides is fluent
in Spanish and French.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas
and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San
Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers
some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in
Northern and Central California. For more information, visit
pge.com and pge.com/news.
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