Qatargas’ Jetty Boil-off Gas Recovery (JBOG) Project recently achieved a milestone by working 20 million man hours without a single lost time incident. The project has the added distinction of achieving zero lost time incidents spread over three years.
Qatargas, which produces 42 million tonnes of LNG per annum, has a vision to set the global standard for safety, health and environment performance. In line with Qatargas’ mission to maintain the highest safety and health standards, the JBOG project management team has made the safety of its workers the number one priority of the project.
Supported by its main contractors, Fluor, Qcon and Qatar Kentz, the project leaders have devised, implemented and continuously improved several key behavioural and construction safety programs for its peak workforce of around 3500 workers. The project has created an incident and injury free culture which trains and encourages its people to stop work if it is unsafe. The JBOG project has implemented twelve golden rules for safety. These include the Qatargas life saving rules. All workers are trained to recognise the importance of complete and unqualified compliance with these golden rules.
The project management team members visit the site daily to monitor and assess the quality of daily safety task assessments. This critical program is designed to raise the quality of the safety dialogue between the workers’ crews and their supervisors.
Khalid Bin Abdulla Al-Thani, Qatargas Chief Operating Officer, Engineering and Venture s, commented that he was happy to see the JBOG project fulfill the mission of Qatargas by producing outstanding results in the quest to keep people and property safe. Khalid congratulated the JBOG project management team and all its contractors on achieving this success, and called upon them to continue their safe working record until the last day of the project.
Bashir Mirza, Qatargas JBOG Project Manager urged all the people on JBOG to continue their vigilance and commitment to ensure that we maintain a Goal Zero mentality, to keep people safe day in and day out.