Safety milestone reached by AltairStrickland during BP Texas City turnaround work
AltairStrickland, a process plant turnaround (TAR) engineering, management and maintenance firm, said it recently set a major safety milestone as part of its 2011 turnaround work at BP’s Texas City refinery.
As of March 20, more than 1mn (1,078,437) work hours had been completed with zero recorded injuries, the company said, representing the largest-ever time period in which AltairStrickland has gone injury free.
It is equivalent to 500 workers going one year with no recordable injury, the company said.
From late December 2010 to March 28, AltairStrickland hired more than 1,000 craft employees. The pre-mobilization preparation was a 4-5 day process including background screening, respiratory and medical evaluations, substance screening and hair follicle testing, the company said.
Safety training often exceeded 16 hours per person and included computer based training (CBT) conducted at AltairStrickland’s ACE training center and at the Safety Council of Texas City (SCTC). Safety leadership concepts were delivered via classroom and CBT training modules for crafts, foremen, superintendents, project managers and safety specialists.
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