I would see this as a process whereby the person spends 4 weeks familiarising themselves with the site procedures for permitting contractors and for on site engineering maintenance staff to undertake tasks. This would include reviewing the gatehouse process for booking in contractors and identifying the shortcomings or gaps in the current process. (4 weeks)
By building an understanding of the profile of works undertaken by staff and contractors the person would then be responsible for developing a ‘system’ to manage and control these works on site. The process can’t be overly bureaucratic and ideally will take the best bits of what they already do but merge these into a system that can be relied upon to minimise risk. I see this as 2-3 months of work because as well as the actual system, there is also the element of bringing the existing staff on the journey so they support the new process. (12 weeks)
The new system should have clear roles and defined competency for people within those roles. It should have defined procedures to follow and the system itself should include steps that ensure isolations are carried out and risk of impact from stored energy is removed prior to commencement of works. (8 weeks to complete)
My thoughts are that the output of this project already exists on a shelf somewhere and has either been developed in the past by the person or they have worked under it and felt it represented best practice.
Job Spec to include:
Occupational Safety Specialist
Expert in
COMAH or Occupational Safety experience is essential for this position.
Upgraded system to include permit to work process, authorisation of hazardous works and the levels of competency required to sign off such works, ability to track progress and performance and allow interpretation/review of performance such the continuous improvement can be achieved.
Person profile is someone with high hazard site experience, and experience managing contractors and integrating staff and contractor work scopes. They will need to have multiple years of site experience and have developed their career to a position of responsibility. They need to be able to communicate the proposed new system to a potentially reluctant audience and so the new system has to be real world applicable, not theoretical and therefore ignored.
If they have site experience on operations where there were multiple operational business units doing different tass each day and where there are multiple tenants also undertaking their own activities while still interacting with the main operator that would be beneficial but not essential.
