News Letter September 08

GS EHS Quarterly News Letter Volume 2, Issue 3

September 2008

Gulf Spic Trading & Contracting Company W.L.L, High Risk Mission

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High Risk Mission— Oil refineries.

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Inside this issue:

Care Environment & reduce global warming

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Training scheduled

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Fire warden

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Safe Rigging Safety Farewell

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Meetings , Conferences

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Hazards & Operability

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Awards

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Oil Industry is filled with hazardous gas. ing at n i a r t id u a l Indiv KRCS

perature, pressures attributed to, may be - because of, long usage of equipments, pipelines, control mechanism or, a leak from flange, joints, valves. Emission of volatile organic compounds such as BTEX (Benzene, Tulene, EthylDavey Lake, Suptd., Bechtel with First Aiders

Emanation can be either due to change in operational parameters that’s beyond the control of operators, such as a sudden surge in flow, tem-

As ALARP measure, CPR , First aid trained personal at site & immediate recourse to first aid facility is of paramount importance. By administering CPR at site in time by trained person, definitely, saves life. Certainly, helps patient to survive before reaching to medical treatment

ene, Xylene) beyond the PEL. Exposure to these, causes unconsciousness to death. In case, any Group Activity

incident occurs the severity rating is very high & disliked by everyone.

from an authorized doctor. Without wasting time, rightly given first aid, prevents employee sustaining serious injuries. At least, it helps to p r e v e n t bleeding excessively or normalize breathing from suffocation. First help to injured needs

e l i an c p m o ect C Proj to bemade available at site. Seen are First aid trained personnel from Kuwait Red Crescent Society.

Bob Leonard Awards

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Care environment & reduce global warming

USE EAR PLUG PROTECT EAR No mobile phone while driving.

Green house gas, mainly, carbon-dioxide, methane contributes to global warming. Easy example can be, where there was 10 lived, now-a– days 100 lives. Obviously, individual carbon foot print has increased. As a result, CER( Carbon Emission rate) increased. More and more needs drives population to venture

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into industrial dependence that basically generate heat by consuming energy & multiply overall carbon generation. Indirectly, these carbon reduces the oxygen present in atmosphere & and causes adverse effect on human being. A balance is to be maintained among the mass, nature & development. It’s a cyclic

David Lake awards an Employee

Safety works when people work

KPI for projects – July’08

process. When there is gap in the cycle it breaks the rhythm of living. Let us take care of Environment by preserving what nature has given to us, by not spoiling the flora and fauna, the water resource, and the soil that enables human being to produce agroproduct. Let us join hands with people who reduce energy consumption & guard Environment. •

Waste management.

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Environment awareness.

GC-28— 11, 38, 216

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Electrical safety.

AGP—262, 600

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Emergency procedure

Shuiba— 357, 087 Dehazing—107, 532

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Near miss? Don't ignore

Off-plot —15, 03, 965

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Gravity Installation—5,896

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First aid

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Fire warden

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Safe Rigging

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Safety Training Scheduled • Safe Rigging— by Velosi Fall protection— Ahmedi Training Institute.

Safety News • EHS Manual made on-

line. • 07-15 Aug’08 Envi-

Gift token to employee working safely during MBW ( Managing by walk-around). EHS Paper presentation

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Bechtel awarded a plaque for 1 million manhours.

ronment week

Fire Extinguisher & use Hazardous Area Classification

Confined Space Entry

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Hazards & Operability Hazards exist in all jobs. These hazards are identified and eliminated during the Design stage. However, it’s not an end of it. Parameters controlling these hazards during operation never stay within the regime for which it is designed. Due to various factors, it surfaces and interrupts the process ( or flow).

This effects abnormal condition either in processing or in maintenance. Sometime these pose alarming potential with severe risk index rating. To ensure, safe operation in all phase, operators need to analyse hazards & operability

EHS Training .

conditions periodically & ensure safe operation of plants. HAZAN, Tree Analysis, FEMA, PHASE, Cause & Effect (Fish bone analysis) are a few to mention.

Head Counting in-progress

HSE Performance review .

Happy moments. Shut-down get-together with TR at Ceaser’s

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Corporate HSE Meeting Corporate HSE Meeting was conducted on 23.08.08 & minutes of meeting circulated to all.

Farewell to Fenderson at Ceaser’s

Safety Watch of the month Use “ Color code “ when using ropes, slings, shackles etc. Oct – Dec 4 Qtr

JanMar 1 Qtr

Jul – Sep 3 Qtr

Apr – Jun 2 Qtr

Award function at MAB, KNPC

Gulf Spic Trading & Contracting W.L.L. Head Office, P.O. Box:46551, Fahaheel 64016, Kuwait.

I AM GEARED UP FOR THE JOB. ARE YOU?. Phone: 3260243, 0271, 0259 Fax: 3263527 E-mail: [email protected]

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On-the-Job Training you s i ty af e

Kindly send all your queries, suggestion to: EHS Dept, Gulf Spic, Kuwait.

Drivers Award for the Second Quarter 2008 Posters by Employee—Unsafe act Mr .Rajpoora, Safety Engineer, KNPC (MAB) awards Employee, June 2008. Visit our web site http://www.Gulfspic.com

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Awards at GC-28, after Shut-down

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