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New Structure and

Key People

For any organisation to survive and thrive in this industry, the leadership team must evolve for

the business to be best placed to meet any challenges. We have recently restructured our team of
Directors, and here’s what some of them have to say about our latest successes and what lies ahead.

Tony Sheridan - HSEQS In addition to this we have set up Project Q1O which is
Director the collation of technical information and best practice
on our top ten quality recurring defects. It is ready to
Stephen Bowcott in his introduction launch on a phased basis for staff from July onwards. It
reinforced that safety is our top priority will include technical learning support and workshops,
at Sisk. In our journey to Zero we have as well as assistance in creating bespoke inspection
witnessed extraordinary efforts from staff across the and test plans, which will help eliminate large and long
whole business. However, our performance in 2016 lasting defects.
has not been as it should have been and the rate of Plant & People
incidents involving lifting operations, falling objects, Segregation
accidents resulting from slips and trips, and the use of
circular saws is of most concern. To cease this trend Excavations & Working
at
Business Unit Boards are meeting fortnightly to share Temporary Heights
Works
best practice. YOUR reaction, intervention and actions
in recent weeks has started to buck the trend so
please do sustain that effort as in recent years we have
seen an increased rate of incidents in July and August.
We have identified that inadequate planning and S5
reduced lead in times for packages resulting in poor
Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) is
contributing to the root cause of many near misses,
incidents and accidents. So we have refreshed and
simplified the RAMS template with a bespoke focus on
our S5 risks (see image opposite). This is being trialled
Live
on a few projects and will be released across the Energies Lifting / Lowering
Operations &
business in August. Falling materials
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