Stuart Shirreff is the Head of Safety and Assurance at KDC Contractors Limited, a company that employs 138 specialists to provide decommissioning, deconstruction, demolition, and land remediation services. KDC works for a variety of chemical, nuclear, and industrial clients. It owns its own nuclear decommissioning, rigging, and asbestos abatement teams. KDC is working to simplify its risk assessment documentation and enhance toolbox talks and daily pre-task risk assessments to further improve workforce safety. With a focus on safety, KDC has not had a RIDDOR reportable incident in over 6 years and has received numerous safety awards from clients and industry organizations.
Innovations Magazine for the first quarter of 2014 brings you stories including the following:
“Tapping into Tomorrow” - Increasing process and jobsite safety through advanced remote hot tapping technology, with digital enhancements for greater operational control and extreme precision.
“Cracking the Code on Cracks” - Providing comprehensive detection and advanced characterization of integrity threats through Multiple Dataset Platform with SpirALL® EMAT crack detection.
“Technology for an Aging World” - Extending asset life through automated pigging technologies, advanced integrity imaging techniques, custom composite repair, and minimally invasive isolation and repair.
“Wingging with NGLs” - Reducing operation cost, man-hours and carbon emissions through pigging with the SmartTrap® Automated Sphere System, and helping operators make money by capturing NGLs.
“Changing Directions” - Helping operators navigate the risks of pipeline repurposing through a better understanding of integrity and operational challenges.
“Four Steps of Pipeline Integrity” - Achieving optimal pipeline throughput and operational safety through cleaning, inline inspection, non-destructive evaluation and isolation and repair.
SWS Environmental Services - An OverviewJamie Michael
SWS Environmental Services is an environmental services contractor that has been providing emergency spill response, environmental remediation, hazardous and non-hazardous waste disposal, and industrial cleaning services for the past 30 years.
Innovations Magazine for the first quarter of 2014 brings you stories including the following:
“Tapping into Tomorrow” - Increasing process and jobsite safety through advanced remote hot tapping technology, with digital enhancements for greater operational control and extreme precision.
“Cracking the Code on Cracks” - Providing comprehensive detection and advanced characterization of integrity threats through Multiple Dataset Platform with SpirALL® EMAT crack detection.
“Technology for an Aging World” - Extending asset life through automated pigging technologies, advanced integrity imaging techniques, custom composite repair, and minimally invasive isolation and repair.
“Wingging with NGLs” - Reducing operation cost, man-hours and carbon emissions through pigging with the SmartTrap® Automated Sphere System, and helping operators make money by capturing NGLs.
“Changing Directions” - Helping operators navigate the risks of pipeline repurposing through a better understanding of integrity and operational challenges.
“Four Steps of Pipeline Integrity” - Achieving optimal pipeline throughput and operational safety through cleaning, inline inspection, non-destructive evaluation and isolation and repair.
SWS Environmental Services - An OverviewJamie Michael
SWS Environmental Services is an environmental services contractor that has been providing emergency spill response, environmental remediation, hazardous and non-hazardous waste disposal, and industrial cleaning services for the past 30 years.
Newcastle Construction Division Newsletter July 2010 Debbie FlynnAlan Bassett
Fewer construction workers killed in past year...HSE Construction Division Plan of Work 2010-11...New Information Sheets – What you need to know as a busy builder...Recent Prosecutions
Kelly C. Ruggles is a registered investment advisor and fee based financial planner from Spokane, Washington Kelly C. Ruggles has over 14 years of experience of working in the financial field and his expertise lies in the area of retirement financial planning for retirees and pre-retirees.
As part of National Learning at Work Week, Brightwave BDM Sophie Miller looks at how nature contrives to hide from itself, and what it can teach us about perceptual bias and visual information processing.
Kelly C. Ruggles founded the American Reliance Group in the mid-1990s to cater to the growing demand of retirees who wanted personalized financial retirement planning.
Newcastle Construction Division Newsletter July 2010 Debbie FlynnAlan Bassett
Fewer construction workers killed in past year...HSE Construction Division Plan of Work 2010-11...New Information Sheets – What you need to know as a busy builder...Recent Prosecutions
Kelly C. Ruggles is a registered investment advisor and fee based financial planner from Spokane, Washington Kelly C. Ruggles has over 14 years of experience of working in the financial field and his expertise lies in the area of retirement financial planning for retirees and pre-retirees.
As part of National Learning at Work Week, Brightwave BDM Sophie Miller looks at how nature contrives to hide from itself, and what it can teach us about perceptual bias and visual information processing.
Kelly C. Ruggles founded the American Reliance Group in the mid-1990s to cater to the growing demand of retirees who wanted personalized financial retirement planning.
ProductCamp Austin 10
What you can see coming can sometimes hurt you, but you have time to prepare for it. Most often it's what you *can't* see that will smack you solidly upside the head and upset your business or non-profit. There are lots of reasons for not seeing risk, including cognitive bias - we all ignore data that doesn't fit our world-view, it's part of our built-in human pattern recognition circuitry. I'll introduce a few simple scenario planning concepts and process steps as antidotes to cognitive bias, blind spots, and other impediments to exploring the future and proper risk mitigation.
Session Category: Product Strategy
Target Audience: PM for Entrepreneurs
Session Format: Presentation
Michael G. Szarka, Director, Commercial Development, GreenCentre Canada, spoke at the CEC Chemicals Management Forum in San Antonio, Texas, on May 16, 2012. More information at: http://www.cec.org/chemicals2012
Intertek provides quality and safety services that not only help customers provide quality products and services but also adds value to their business.
We deliver these services through our global network and as a result have developed an unrivalled reputation for fast execution of work.
WHAT? Within our industry the personal health effects of noise and vibration are well known and should now be embedded in your Company Health and safety arrangements. Construction industry is one of the leading sources of noise complaints made to Local Authorities. Something is considered ‘noisy’ when the sound is unwanted by the listener. Noise and vibration emissions can disturb local residents and give rise to complaints and delays.
Silo explodes at ready-mix plant...The top (cap) of the silo was thrown into the air, across a road, landing in an adjacent property. Fortunately, no injuries occurred as a result of this incident.
Dust and emissions, such as the recent publicity in the national press relating to the health hazards of particulates in diesel powered vehicles exhaust emissions, can cause health risks and odours at high concentrations may annoy neighbours and those affected by our activities.
Oxygen is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas and makes up to 21% of the air we breathe, it has a relative density of 1.1 which means it is slightly heavier than air.
Oils, greases, solvents and PTFE tape may react violently with oxygen. You should never use oil or grease to lubricate oxygen or oxygen enriched equipment as they can spontaneously burn with explosive violence.
Lifting and rigging operations are some of the most hazardous activities we regularly undertake, day in day out. The consequences of something going wrong during a lifting or rigging operation can literally be fatal.
TOOLBOX TALK | safe use of lift trucks and telehandlersAlan Bassett
Lift trucks are widely used throughout industry for moving materials and goods, but they also feature prominently in workplace accidents. Even an incident not causing injury may result in costly damage to lift trucks, buildings, fittings and the goods being handled.
Last year in the UK 40 people died and nearly 43,000 reported non fatal injuries as a result of a fall from height in the workplace. Falls from height are the most common cause of fatal injury and the second most common cause of major injury to employees, accounting for around 15% of all such injuries...
During December the monthly average number of fires, injuries and fatalities more than doubles in households across the UK.
Read these 12 Tips to a Safer Christmas and enjoy the festive season...
Winter is almost upon us and at this time of the year snow and ice introduce an additional hazard on scaffold platforms and access’s. This toolbox talk covers both working on scaffolds and the hazards of winter.
1. Stuart Shirreff
PGCert, BSc(Hons), CMIOSH, MIIRSM, RMaPS, MRSPH
KDC Contractors Limited
Head of Safety and Assurance
Wilton, Teeside
Tuesday 7th February 2012
2. KDC Contractors Ltd
• Employ 138 specialist operatives and management
• 30 machine operators
• 80 operatives, management and supervisors
• Provide a full suite of services to the Chemical, Petro-Chemical, Nuclear,
Pharmaceutical and Local Authorities
• Decommissioning, De-planting, Demolition and Land Remediation
• Own In-House:
– Nuclear decommissioning team (small works)
– De-planting and rigging teams
– Licensed Asbestos abatement team
3. Who we work for
• BNFL Sellafield • Wrexham Borough Council
• RSRL (UKAEA) • Liverpool 2020
• AWE • Royal Mail
• BP • Sembcorp
• Chevron • Port Authorities
• GSK • Wales and West Utilities
• AstraZeneca • Scottish Power
• Magnox Electrical • Piramal
• MSD • Johnson Matthey
• Syngenta • St Modwens
• DOW Chemical
12. What Motivated Changes
• Company aims to achieve significant milestones
• Confusion within documentation
• Understanding of what is required under Law and Practice
• Need for workforce participation
• Demonstrate that health & safety can be carried out at minimal or no extra cost
and as part of daily systems of operation
• Workforce can be educated to improve their health and safety understanding
and in doing so there is a positive benefit to the business
13. What are KDC working on
4 key elements within the Risk Management System
• Simplifying the Method Statements for the work packages. Elimination or reduce
usage of Numbered Matrix within the Risk Assessments
• Enhanced toolbox talks
• POWRA Cards daily for all ops
• Site Safety Observations (SSO’s)
14. Story So Far
• Taken two years from the initial intervention
• MS now written in simple English with no legal quotes and references to laws
• RA are rated as Low, Medium, High, Unacceptable (Traffic light colour coded)
• Toolbox talks delivered by the safety team using technology and over 30
minute duration (educational rather than dictatorial)
• POWRA Cards completed daily by 80% of site workforce (pilot programme)
15. Outcomes Achieved
• 6 years in March 2012 since last RIDDOR (1.95m/Hrs.)
• 92% workforce retention rate
• 93% of workforce carry professional competency cards
• 97% recycle rate on all demolition projects
• 12 consecutive years of BSC International Safety Award for below industry
accident rates
• National awarding body recognition for compliance under CDM and Appendix 4
• No major non compliances for the tri standards in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and
OHSAS 18001
16. What our Clients think
Richard Smith, Dow Global Demolition Director, said:
“KDC Continues to demonstrate an outstanding commitment to the safe planning and
execution of all field work on Dow demolition projects.
We truly believe KDC’s superlative performance is a reflection of the leadership and
support of the entire KDC management team, as well as the diligence and dedication
of all KDC personnel”.