Austin Utilities has earned a national award for its safety record and a recognition for reliability in 2015.

The American Public Power Association (APPA) gave Austin Utilities the Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2015. Austin Utilities had zero Occupational Safety and Health Administration reportable accidents in 2015 to help earn the award.

The utility earned a first place award in the category for utilities with 250,000 to 999,999 annual worker-hours of exposure. The award was presented on April 4 during the association’s annual Engineering & Operations Technical Conference in Minneapolis.

“We at Austin Utilities are proud of the service we provide to our customers,” Austin Utilities General Manager Mark Nibaur said in a press release. “But above all else, we are proud of our safety record—proud that we do everything we can to send our people home to their families each and every night.”

In January, employees got to shave Nibaur’s head as a reward after he offered it as reward for a perfect 2015 safety record.

In addition, Austin Utilities received national recognition from the APPA for achieving exceptional electric reliability in 2015. It recognizes utilities that are statistically thriving when it comes to reliability.

APPA took Austin Utilities’ reliability data compiled through its eReliability Tracker Service and compared it to the top quartile of system outage duration from national reliability data collected by the Energy Information Administration—an independent agency that collects, analyzes and disseminates national energy data.

“We work hard to keep the lights on day in and day out,” Nibaur in the release. “It’s nice to see that hard work pay off with this kind of recognition.”

More than 250 utilities entered the annual Safety Awards, which is among the highest number of entrants in the history of the program.