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DEESIDE POWER - HEALTH & SAFETY
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Archive of Previous Health & Safety Targets for Deeside Power Station

Health & Safety
Targets 2010

1. Maintain OHSAS 18001.

2. Maintain level 5 RoSPA certification

3. Nominate one additional Designated Person.

4. Train six additional Internal Auditors.

5. Provide additional support to Technical Officers preparing for higher risk outage work.

6. Improve consistency of site safety/environment inspections and consequent action follow-up.

7. Review compliance with corporate policy and objectives.

8. Carry out Business Continuity Planning tabletop exercise.

9. Increase data evaluation from Fresh Eyes observations and produce recommendations from trends analysis.

10. Further improvements to outage safety planning.

11. Continue COSHH assessment input to database and complete DSEAR spreadsheet.

12. Implement revision of corporate Safety Rules. Ensure all relevant persons are suitably trained.

13. Complete actions arising from OHSAS 18001 and RoSPA audits.

14. Carry out actions arising from internal audits.

15. Support International Power with H&S activities as required, including Internal Audit and peer to peer audits.

16. Ensure programme of Self-regulation Audits is carried out to show compliance with Deeside procedures and alignment with OHSAS 18001 requirements.

 

Health & Safety
Targets 2009

1. Review internal audit process for ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 and ensure all required systems are audited

2. Maintain level 5 RoSPA certification

3. Review the nominated roles scheme and make changes as required to ensure subsequent compliance with legislation

4. Organise training to enable 50% of staff and site-based contractors to be trained as Fresh Eyes observers

5. Measure H & S training on the basis of training hours received, ensuring that all operations based employees receive training as required by corporate policy

6. Continue with integration of Ops risk assessments including at least 1/3 of O.I.s and short notice work in the programme

7. Populate risk assessment database with preventative maintenance risk assessments

8. Improve consistency of site safety/environment inspections and consequent action follow-up

9. Review compliance with corporate policy and objectives

10. Measure and report action completion rate and set target within bonus system

11. Investigate and implement methods of improving the reporting and feedback to all staff of near misses and unsafe acts/conditions

12. Develop a healthy lifestyle programme

13. Outage Safety planning:

  • Organise planning meeting with main outage contractor

  • Organise induction, using an external consultant, with all contractor’s Supervisors and Safety Document Acceptors

  • Organise two feedback meetings with contractor’s supervisors and Safety Document Acceptors during the course of the Outage

  • Nominate a Safety Coordinator to manage Safety from the System and support outage safety team

14. Continue COSHH assessment input to risk assessment database and complete DSEAR spreadsheet

15. Complete Internal Audits to ensure compliance with Deeside procedures and alignment with OHSAS 18001 requirements

16. Complete agreed actions arising from OHSAS 18001 audits

17. Carry out regular briefings to ensure that employees are informed of current H&S performance and issues

Health & Safety
Targets 2008

Maximise compliance with legislation by development of nominated role for PUWER

Maximise compliance with legislation by development of nominated roles for LOLER

Develop Powersol Risk Assessment package and convert maintenance risk assessments to Powersol

Integrate Ops risk assessments with Powersol, including at least 1/3 of Operating Instructions and short notice work in the programme

Enhance behavioural safety by improving hazard awareness, carrying out a review of the Fresh Eyes scheme, and include as many staff as practicable in the scheme to benefit Deeside

Provide IOSH Managing Safely for all relevant staff

Review emergency incident management system. Carry out actions from previous exercise, and organise follow-up emergency incident exercise

Update all COSHH assessments and include in Powersol

Improve management of contractors

Organise and manage external QSA/18001 audit and implement actions from 2007 audit

Health & Safety
Targets 2007

1. Review structure of H&S\LMS and consider incorporating ‘road map’ to H&S management system

2. Implement the ‘take 5’ principles into a programme for dynamic risk assessments

3. Implement ‘Powersol’ risk assessment package for operations, maintenance and administration

4. Carry out agreed improvements to H&S management arising from QSA to maintain compliance with QSA and 18001

5. Develop HAVS controls on site and for home use

6. Implement ‘Fresh Eyes’ programme at Deeside

7. Health initiatives, including hot working conditions awareness, cancer awareness and HAVS

8. Review and improve compliance with LOLER and PUWER

9. Review and improve incident reporting and accident analysis procedures

Health & Safety
Targets 2006

1. Implement effective methods of keeping management system documents under review to ensure technical accuracy and compliance with legal and company requirements

2. Instigate programme of departmental toolbox talks to keep staff fully up-to-date with health and safety issues

3. Implement the ‘take 5’ principles into a programme for dynamic risk assessments

4. Encourage greater involvement and better understanding of risk assessment by appointment of additional risk assessment co-ordinators

5. Continue development of behavioural safety programme

6. Develop Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) controls on site and for home use

7. Health initiatives, including hot working conditions awareness, cancer awareness and HAVS

8. Consider risks to persons from traffic movements; propose and implement changes for improvement

9. Review classification of near misses, incidents, unsafe acts and conditions etc to ensure relevant information is captured and acted upon consistently. Review and develop methods for collating and analysing accident and incident statistics

10. Arrange timescale and scope for safety audits, including QSA and OHSAS 18001. Produce and implement plan to prepare for audit, and ensure all agreed actions are completed

Health & Safety
Targets 2005

1. Redefine site H&S structure through review of H&S LMS

2. Implement proposals on improvements to plant doors, ensuring that disabled access is considered

3. Implement behavioural safety programme

4. Carry out actions arising from incident testing and training, including review of fire evacuation procedures

5. Continue improvement to site risk assessment process

6. Make agreed improvements to site housekeeping

7. Improve storage and use of chemical PPE

8. Review MCW acid dosing system and carry out modifications as required

9. Continuation of ATEX Project work

10. Carry out improvements to noise control measures identified in Noise Report

11. Enhance management of contractors on site by improved training and authorisation of Technical Officers

12. Improve consistency of contract management by routine audit of contract management files, including the creation of an audit proforma

13. Develop/implement procedure for incident investigation

14. Carry out actions arising from RoSPA QSA to ensure continuous improvement to site H&S management

15. Review use of Safety Rules and recommend changes as required

Health & Safety
Targets 2004

1. Ensure nominated roles matrix and job specifications are current and appropriate

2. Carry out survey of plant doors and recommend ways of reducing risk of injury during high winds

3. Look at use of air lines and consider improvements

4. Increase frequency and personnel of site inspections

5. Consider implications of workplace stress and recommend measures to alleviate

6. Organise one major and at least one minor incident for training purposes in 2004

7. Carry out incident training for staff

7. Investigate ways of improving the standard of housekeeping around plant and in offices

8. Continuation of ATEX Project work

9. Consider improvements to noise control measures identified in Noise Report

10. Review recent Safety Rules incidents and identify any common cause

11. Develop/implement procedure for incident investigation

12. Investigate ways of increasing close out rate of actions, including safety defects, audit actions, incident report actions etc.

Health & Safety
Targets 2003

1. Produce generic outage plan, including relevant safety, environmental, and RTS documentation prior to next major outage

2. Continue to develop risk assessment system and ensure all staff aware of control measures

3. Improve use of PPE on site and at home

4. Carry out trials in use of flame retardant PPE

5. Organise one major and at least one minor incident for training purposes in 2003

6. Improve retrieval of site drawings

7. Organise spring/summer visit to DuPont in N Ireland for safety networking

8. Set up and participate in working group to carry out HAZOP studies into site modifications

9. Develop near-miss reporting scheme to improve capture of near-miss incidents

10. Investigate methods of defining accident frequency rate on site for comparison with industry best practice

11. Carry out internal QSA audit before end of July

12. Carry out internal noise level survey to ensure sufficient H&S controls in place

13. Carry out full review of COSHH Inventory

14. Improve control of access during bulk chemical unloading

15. Ensure common approach to Safety Rules at Deeside and Rugeley

16. Investigate options for improved control of legionella

Health & Safety
Targets 2002

1) Improve incident reporting so that progress of incident investigation can be communicated to staff and actions arising noted.

2) Monitor all company engineering and technical documents and ensure resources are available to add or update Deeside FDS as necessary.

3) Ensure modification database is updated to reflect all physical mods to date and that drawings and Operating Instructions reflect such modifications.

4) Create database system to record all station Risk Assessments for easy access by interested parties.

5) Prepare application and annual report for RoSPA gold award in March 2001.

6) Arrange for station QSA audit, review results and recommend corrective action required.

7) Make recommended improvements to Deeside H&S management systems, policies, procedures or culture based on visit arranged to Dupont site to achieve world class H&S status.

8) Introduce new Self Regulation Audit scheme based on the principles of the NP level 3 scheme.

9) Examine requirements of Legionella ACoP and implement changes as required to Deeside procedures.

10) Arrange Incident Testing Programme.

11) Co-ordinate review of formal H&S documentation to ensure it reflects current status of Deeside as an IPP, current legislation and latest good practice.

Health & Safety
Targets 2001

1) Improve incident reporting so that progress of incident investigation can be communicated to staff and actions arising noted.

2) Monitor all company engineering and technical documents and ensure resources are available to add or update Deeside FDS as necessary.

3) Ensure modification database is updated to reflect all physical mods to date and that drawings and Operating Instructions reflect such modifications.

4) Create database system to record all station Risk Assessments for easy access by interested parties.

5) Prepare application and annual report for RoSPA gold award in March 2001.

6) Arrange for station QSA audit, review results and recommend corrective action required.

7) Make recommended improvements to Deeside H&S management systems, policies, procedures or culture based on visit arranged to Dupont site to achieve world class H&S status.

8) Introduce new Self Regulation Audit scheme based on the principles of the NP level 3 scheme.

9) Examine requirements of Legionella ACoP and implement changes as required to Deeside procedures.

10) Arrange Incident Testing Programme.

11) Co-ordinate review of formal H&S documentation to ensure it reflects current status of Deeside as an IPP, current legislation and latest good practice.

 

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