Managing Contractors and Subcontractors HSE Performance during Plant Turnarounds

摘要

Plant Turnarounds (TA) are by themselves complex maintenance projects and a back to back turnaround in the Company in 2012-13, without any doubt, threw many challenges that was to be managed well to achieve very stringent HSE targets. This challenge lead the TA core team to an innovative and proactive method on the HSE management aspects that lead to every Contractor employee going back unharmed after 75 days of hard work. The startup of the Ethane unit crackers (EU1) in a record time of 28 days and 18 hours could only be achieved with the philosophy of "First time right" principles embedded within the activities and HSE and Quality Plan, which was executed well by all the team members including the Company leadership team, the employees and above all the Contractor employees who embraced this approach enthusiastically. This paper aims to present, in a practical approach, the application of basic HSE principles and HSE management elements to the Management of Contractors and Sub-Contractors for a Major turnaround of Olefins and Poly Olefins Plant in the year 2012-13. This application can be understood and emphasized in the various stages of a turnaround: planning, pre-turnaround, shutdown, maintenance itself, commissioning, and startup of the plants.