diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 44c21e81b..0fc2e9f43 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   end
 
   def html_hours(text)
-    text.gsub(%r{(\d+)\.(\d+)}, '<span class="hours hours-int">\1</span><span class="hours hours-dec">.\2</span>')
+    text.gsub(%r{(\d+)\.(\d+)}, '<span class="hours hours-int">\1</span><span class="hours hours-dec">.\2</span>').html_safe
   end
 
   def authoring(created, author, options={})