This is an example of an advanced learning team. A learning team is a discussion with people who do the activity and who influence how the work is done.
We sat together with a broad group of people including Workshop Operators, Foreman, HSE, Operations Leader, logistics, and manufacturing engineer team, and asked them about what makes their work difficult and how the next incident could happen.
We’ve identified over 30 improvement opportunities.
Firstly, operators told us that the information they need, such as weight, the center of gravity, or type of slings, is not easy and convenient to access. There are just a few laptops in the workshop, it takes time to walk to them, there may be somebody using it, or if you rarely use the computers you could forget your password, it’s difficult to locate the information you need in the database. All this may take more time than you have available to prepare for the lift and sometimes people were not using it, relying on their past experience.
Then, we’ve heard that sometimes important information is not available in the database or is incomplete, and some operators who may be involved in those lifts do not have sufficient skills and haven’t had the right type of complex lift training.
So to address those issues, we have introduced tablets and making improvements to the usability of the database, to make the information easy and convenient to access – in other words, to make it easy to do the right thing.
We have changed how the information for the complex lifts is provided and added cross-checks to ensure the information is correct.
We are also training all our operators on complex lifting techniques.
These are some examples out of many other improvements we are introducing. As a result, the risk of accident or failure is reduced.
This is an example of an advanced learning team. A learning team is a discussion with people who do the activity and who influence how the work is done.
We sat together with a broad group of people including Workshop Operators, Foreman, HSE, Operations Leader, logistics, and manufacturing engineer team, and asked them about what makes their work difficult and how the next incident could happen.
We’ve identified over 30 improvement opportunities.
Firstly, operators told us that the information they need, such as weight, the center of gravity, or type of slings, is not easy and convenient to access. There are just a few laptops in the workshop, it takes time to walk to them, there may be somebody using it, or if you rarely use the computers you could forget your password, it’s difficult to locate the information you need in the database. All this may take more time than you have available to prepare for the lift and sometimes people were not using it, relying on their past experience.
Then, we’ve heard that sometimes important information is not available in the database or is incomplete, and some operators who may be involved in those lifts do not have sufficient skills and haven’t had the right type of complex lift training.
So to address those issues, we have introduced tablets and making improvements to the usability of the database, to make the information easy and convenient to access – in other words, to make it easy to do the right thing.
We have changed how the information for the complex lifts is provided and added cross-checks to ensure the information is correct.
We are also training all our operators on complex lifting techniques.
These are some examples out of many other improvements we are introducing. As a result, the risk of accident or failure is reduced.