Number

	F2001	F2002	F2003	F2004	F2005	F2006	F2007	F2008
Incidents	1030	1018	1191	1020	1065	1236	1081	1043
Public fatalities (actuals)	4	1	3	1	2	3	2	0
Public fatalities (targets)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

This performance measure includes any public incidents which involve BC Hydro's electrical system or operations. It captures all injury incidents, fatalities, or any other incidents that present the obvious potential for these outcomes to the general public. Incidents of motor vehicle accidental contact with, and damage to, the electrical systems are not included in this metric.

BC Hydro's ability to control the occurrence of public incidents is limited. However, the company consistently provides public awareness programming with a focus on higher risk groups and increases its investment if the number of incidents or fatalities increases. BC Hydro conducts risk and trend analysis to identify changes (particularly higher risk issues) and/or affirm the effectiveness of the programming. BC Hydro has recently introduced special measures to address emerging hazard issues such as those created by metal theft.

The number of incidents over last year is within the prescribed random variation observed year-over-year. Some of these incidents (such as outages caused by the public felling trees over power-lines, dig-ins, and other trouble reports) often have no direct personal contact or injury involved, but they have the potential for it. BC Hydro's target for fiscal 2009 remains at zero fatalities.