Reach Beyond Zero
Project details
Client challenge
With a world class, award winning, global safety initiative called ‘Reach Beyond Zero’ that was developed to help drive continual improvements in Heath and Safety HSSEQ performance. Stork makes a promise to its clients that they will help them ‘Reach Beyond Zero’. Safety is a core value of the client.
When undertaking client fabric maintenance workscopes, our client has to provide a mask-fed clean, safe breathing air supply for use by its operatives working in hazardous areas where the ambient air is not safe to breathe. The breathing air supply is generated by compressors and the process of air compression can introduce additional invisible hazards which must be managed safely at all times in order to prevent both short term and long term health risks to the employees.
The client not only needed to comply with the European breathing air quality standard EN12021:2014 and UK HSE COSHH, but also needed to ensure that they were consistently providing its employees with a safe breathing air supply containing the lowest possible level of contaminants, allowing them to manage the risk in a manner that was ‘as low as reasonably practicable’ (ALARP).
Due to the nature of the client’s business, with extensive workshop facilities and resources, they also needed to carry out as much of the equipment lifecycle servicing and testing in-house.
Discover and collaborate
The Safewell team worked with the client in a discovery phase to understand the client’s business operations and objectives, providing an end-to-end lifecycle safety solution based on Safewell SafeAir best in class products.
These included:
- ALG10-2 breathing air purification units
- Air Purity Analysers for testing the quality of the breathing air quickly and effectively onsite
- Both low pressure and high pressure ATEX certified electric breathing air compressors allowing safe, clean breathing air to be generated in a variety of hazardous offshore and onshore environments
- Service training for workshop staff so that they could complete the maintenance of the units in-house.
The value clarity of the Safewell integrated holistic safety solution led to the client standardising the use of Safewell products throughout its international business operations and Safewell continues to support this initiative providing product lifecycle spares, calibration and training globally, including in Trinidad and Azerbaijan.
The Safewell team engaged with the client’s senior operational and workshop teams to gain information regarding the range of tasks and working environments that its employees faced during its workscopes, in order to clarify the challenges.
Bespoke tailoring
Using this discovery process and Safewell’s extensive knowledge of the legal safety regulations and breathing air quality standards, we helped the client develop a safe and cost effective life cycle risk management solution for integration in its ‘Reach Beyond Zero’ initiative.
The supply of Safewell ‘Best in Class’ equipment, which fully meets the EN12021:2014 breathing air quality standard as well as removing harmful particles from the compressed air allows the client’s employees to work safely and efficiently in a range of hazardous situations.
The client now has the flexibility to test and maintain their own equipment.
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