Keeping the right side of the line...

1. Health, Safety and Environment
Weekly Safety Review 9 SIMS awaiting First Aid Recordable
Managers Comments
No. injuries ytd 4 2
Injury rate ytd 0 0
No. days worked since last 151
Injury
Issue Date : 10 / 7 / 2012 OSHA recordable (11/2/12)
Performance
No. days worked since last 151 INJURY
Keeping the right side of the line….. RIDDOR injury (11/2/12) FREE
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The HSE document HSG136 “Workplace Transport Safety” and
Work at Height Regulations
Within Sembcorp in the last 8
Months there have been 3 serious
incidents arising out of activities
which statistically are higher risk.
These tragically have resulted in
fatalities. The latest was in June
2012 at the new Salalah water and
power plant (Oman) where a tank
was being prepared for painting.
The task was conducted from a
ladder when the man fell trying to
retrieve a piece of emery paper
which had slipped from his grasp.
The other two incidents were
related to transport / heavy vehicle
movements. In the first incident (India) a banksman site worker was crushed
between a ground piling machine and a passing vehicle . In the second incident
(India) a site worker involved in stabilising a load being transported sustained fatal
injuries from the vehicle itself. The driver was using his mobile phone.
In all of these incidents, there is more than one root cause but there are some
common threads between them all :-
1. They all involve contracted work and its control
2. Communication broke down at various stages in the planning or the activity itself
3. Procedures / rules were not followed due to lack of awareness or violation
4. Task assessment was inappropriate
5. The lines of defence that should have been in place were not present
From these tragic incidents there are some important reminders for us :
 All stages of work (including contracted work) must be appropriately planned and
Risk Assessed
 Contracted work must be appropriately managed and monitored
 The established standards for people and vehicles, and for work at height, must
be insisted on and followed