Plan with Precision
You take pride in your work and even greater pride in the incredible things we accomplish as a team. High-performing teams start every day and operation with a strong plan, a plan that considers every aspect of every task up front, so we’re able to anticipate challenges, prepare for the unexpected and overcome potential hazards. The earlier a task can be planned the more opportunities there are to develop the most effective risk controls.
Focus on High Risk
The project team must proactively identify and capture high-risk activities through detailed scheduling look-ahead. This approach allows for early detection of potential hazards and the implementation of appropriate control measures. Your team might utilize scheduling software or utilize a three week look ahead that is completed in the field. Regardless of how your employer conducts scheduling, we as an industry need to start to identify High Risk Activities so we can adequately plan for the risks associated with them. Identifying these items helps teams focus on activities that could potentially lead to Significant Incidents or Fatalities (SIF).
Collaborative Planning with Trade Partners, Individual Workers & Subject Matter Experts
Safety planning should not be the sole responsibility of individual workers left up to the Pre-Task-Planning process that occurs in the work location before the start of work daily. The project team must work closely with trade contractors, partners, and subject matter experts to develop comprehensive risk mitigation plans. This collaborative effort ensures that all parties are aware of the risks and the necessary controls to mitigate them. Effective planning greatly reduces the reliance on our workforce to identify the hazards and utilize controls to eliminate the opportunity for an incident to occur.
An example of this would be a worker who must utilize a ladder to gain access to overhead work. Through proper planning and utilizing the hierarchy of controls it may have been possible to complete the work off site in the shop and lifted into place on site. The team may have rented a scissor lift for the employee to gain better access to the overhead work, however if all the decisions are left to the worker in the field, we are missing opportunities to identify risk and eliminate or reduce it before we ask a trade worker to perform their duties.
**Discuss all types of planning measures used onsite to ensure safe work and effective pre-planning.
*** Talk about the importance of understanding DWPs , JHAs and PTAs.
