any given time.” He added,
“The time to build and the
cost and all the [other] stuff
is nice but safety [is the most
important]. It doesn’t mean
anything if someone were to
be seriously injured on a proj-
ect.”
One such safety implementa-
tion was the use of large he-
licopters instead of climbing
towers: “We chose this time
not to take the approach of
climbing towers – this added
to the safety element of [the
project]. We used large heli-
copters for what we did. It was
more expensive but [we] got
more work done.”
Despite some outcries from
some experts within the in-
dustry, Hydro One main-
tained its focus on safety and
efficiency.
“[The decision] came under
a lot of scrutiny from a lot of
the more experienced people
in the field - not in the com-
pany but in the field - [but]
because we benefitted on
safety the use of helicopters
became huge and we were
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