QHSE Bulletin

DESCON ENGINEERING LIMITED

Issue No. 51 \\\\ Jan, Feb 2009

TIP of
THE MONTH
NewsCORNER
QHSE

Protect Yourself from

Pollution
Safe Sub-Contractor of the Month: If you can't live in a smog-free
Technip once again awarded Descon as a Safe Sub- environment, at least avoid
Contractor for the month (January, 2009) at Olefin Project smoke-filled rooms, high traffic
Qatar. Our HSE team has received this award areas, breathing in highway
5th time at Olefin Project. We fumes and exercising near
congratulate our project team on busy thoroughfares.
achieving this award. Exercise outside when
the smog rating is low.
One hundred thousand Man- Exercise indoors in air
Hours with out LTI at TRL conditioning when air
Project (P#1129): quality is good. Plant
lots of shrubbery in
Our Project HSE team has
your yard.
achieved LTI free One hundred
Thought for the day:
thousand Man-hours at TRL Project
'Smoke gets in your
(P#1129). We congratulate our Project
eyes'…and your mouth, and
Team on reaching this milestone
your nose and your lungs as do
successfully. Achievement of this milestone is
pollutants….hum the tune daily.
the result of joint effort of HSE & Execution Team. We
wish them good luck and hope that they will complete this
project without LTI.

Eight Million Man-hours without LTI at Pearl GTL FAITH AND BELIEF
Project:
On 11th February, 2009 our Project HSE team at Pearl GTL “Only the person who has
has completed Eight Million Man-hours without any OHSA faith in himself is able to be
Recordable Injury. We congratulate our project team on faithful to others.”
achieving this milestone and hope that same stride will be
followed by the end of project. Erich Fromm

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Gas Tungsten Arc
QUALITY Welding (GTAW)
The arc is initiated
between the tip of the
electrode and work to melt
the metal being welded, as
well as the filler metal,
when used. A gas shield
protects the electrode and
the molten weld pool, and
provides the arc
characteristics.
TIG/GTAW butt weld in 3/8-in.
thick 4140 aluminum alloy using
Alumaxx Plus gas.
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GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING IS ONE OF
THE WELDING PROCESS TYPE AND IT’S
ALSO CALLED TIG WELDING PROCESS
Welding is the joining of multiple pieces of metal by the use of
heat and or pressure. A union of the parts is created by fusion or
re-crystallization across the metal interface. Welding can involve
the use of filler material, or it can involve no filler.
There are many types of welding processes out of that one is Gas
Tungsten Arc Welding also called TIG Welding process.
GTAW uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode which must be
shielded with an inert gas. The arc is initiated between the tip of
the electrode and work to melt the metal being welded, as well as
the filler metal, when used. A gas shield protects the electrode and
the molten weld pool, and provides the arc characteristics.
GTAW tools and equipments:
• Welding Torch
• Tungsten Electrode
• Inert Gas
• Pressure regulators and flow meters
• Welding face shield
• Protective clothing
• Gas Nozzle on gun
• A source of shielding gas.
• Power Source (8KW to 30 KW) Current range (200A to
500A)
• High Frequency Oscillator
• Welding wire
Advantages:
• Welds with or without filler metal
• Precise control of welding variables
• Low distortion
• Higher quality root pass.
• Accommodate wide range of thickness, positions and
geometries.
• Portable Equipment
• Combination with GMAW or SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc
Welding) produces good results
for pipe welding.
Limitations:
• More training time required as GMAW & SMAW.
• More expensive than SMAW
• Requires greater welder dexterity than MIG or stick welding
• Lower deposition rate
• More costly for welding thick sections
Applications:
Most commonly used for Aluminum, Steel and Stainless steel.
Except for thin sections or where very high quality is needed.
Common Defects:
• Porosity
• Incomplete Fusions
• Inadequate joint penetration.
• Cracks
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What Does Safety
SAFETY Success Look Like?
Safety is a condition of
operations that has certain
qualities. When you
achieve the qualities, the
numbers follow. If you
think of safety as a vacuum
in which accidents have all
been sucked out, you fall in
to the trap of avoiding
failure and your efforts
become negative and
ineffective. It is very
important to know that on
which points to be focus to
achieve successful safety
system.
Send your comments and suggestions to
qhse@descon.com.pk
quality@descon.com.pk
We welcome all useful information
regarding Quality, Health, Safety, &
Environment for inclusion in the
forthcoming Issues.
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IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT
ON WHICH POINTS TO BE
FOCUSED TO ACHIEVE
SUCCESSFUL SAFETY SYSTEM
Following areas to be focused to achieve successful safety system:
1. Proactive
Truly successful safety efforts have begun to max out traditional
reactive safety and go well beyond these minimal efforts to “get
ahead of the curve” in safety efforts. Success in reactive safety
generates the necessity for proactive safety. When you use
accident investigation data to improve safety, the more you
succeed, the less data you have. Before the accident data
disappears it does another nasty trick: it loses its statistical
significance that last bit of accident data tells you that you are not
perfect; but it doesn’t tell you how to get better.
2. Focused
Truly successful safety efforts generate a focus on the most
important dangers and the precautions that can best avoid them.
The narrow focus needs to be communicated relentlessly until
workers actually memorize the list.
Many sites create acronyms or other mnemonics to aid the
learning and retention of the focus list then they reinforce the list
until it becomes second nature or even habitual. Once workers
automatically take the most critical precautions, the accidents
rate go down and stay down. FOCUS is an acronym for Forming
One Common Understanding of Safety.
3. Transformation
Precautions that can potentially have a significant impact on
accidents are called transformation precautions. Truly excellent
safety efforts are not striving for modest gains, but working
toward goals that can truly transform the accident rates with a
minimal effort.
All truly successful safety
4. Involves Workers
Management efforts to improve efforts have all or most of
safety can be highly effective, but the following qualities in
almost inevitably are limited if common. The more of these
worker involvement is not qualities, the more
increased. Deming said that you
successful the effort.
should always involve the people
who know the most when solving
organizational problems. Truly excellent safety efforts attack risks
on two fronts: the management front and the cultural (or worker-
involved) front. Managers should dictate compliance with laws
and company policies as a condition of employment and enforce
them accordingly. Workers should identify precautions that go
beyond compliance and tap into worker discretional efforts to
further move safety efforts toward excellence.
5. Clearly Communicated
Effective communication is a trademark of safety success. Both
the quantity and quality of safety communication are critical to
safety success. When managers and supervisors talk about
productivity much more often than safety, this tends to create the
perception that productivity is important and safety is a lesser
goal. Because of changing priorities and changing perceptions,
many have suggested that safety should be a value and not a
priority. If this goal is to be accomplished, it will require a steady
flow of communication that does not waiver or bend and
management decisions that demonstrate the commitment.
Everyone in the organization should self-monitor their level of
safety communication in both word and deed to determine if
safety is truly clearly communicated.
6. Results Oriented
Processes that do not produce downstream results are not
working and should be revised or scrapped. The true value of
process metrics is to determine if the process is being worked and
if the process is working. Profound knowledge of safety is neither
process or result metrics; it includes knowledge of the process
and result metrics as well as having an understanding of the
relationship between the two. Many safety programs and
processes create a process mentality.
7. Multi-dimensional
The safety world is full of subject-matter experts trying to disguise
science as technology. We constantly are being exposed to new or
revised processes that are largely one-dimensional, one-science
approaches to one symptom of safety failure.
8. Integrated
Truly successful safety efforts are not something else you do; they
are the way you do everything. The more “apart” safety efforts are
from day-to-day functions, the less successful they are. If your
organization practices Six Sigma, your safety processes should
parallel or even piggy-back on these methods and efforts. Safety is
a quality issue and a staffing issue. When we integrate safety into
everything else, we can truly make it a value and not just a
changeable value.
9. Practical
Safety success can be advanced by theories, but it ultimately is not
a theory. Safety success is impossible if it does not fit the cultural,
procedural and conditional realities of the workplace.
10. Humanistic
Ultimately, the reason for working on safety is as important as
how you work on it. If your goals are all financial and bench
marking in their orientation, you will not win the hearts of the
people who can make you successful.
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