Working alongside Unitywater to source and supply all Lockout Tagout equipment required to implement the company’s new Workplace Health & Safety procedures. Plus, onsite training of staff to ensure they understand how to use the equipment correctly and safely.
Unitywater
Unitywater provide high-quality, safe and reliable water and sewerage services across Australia. They may be most well-known for maintaining and supplying drinking-quality water to our homes, businesses and public areas around Australia. However, there are many other important services carried out by Unitywater; Unitywater collect, treat and dispose of sewage, build, manage, operate and maintain sewerage and water infrastructure, manage trade waste, provide around-the-clock response to sewerage and water emergencies and provide responsive 24/7 incident, media and public information to ensure that communities are prepared, informed and supported as needed.
The Loy Yang AGL Power Station produces enough power to supply over 2 million average Australian homes every year.
AGL Loy Yang with 2,210MW generates approximately 30% of Victoria’s power requirements every year and is an integral part of Australia’s national electricity market.
AGL Loy Yang is in the Latrobe Valley, 165 kilometres south east of Melbourne and was acquired by AGL in 2012. The power station and accompanying open cut coal mine cover about 6,000 hectares. The mine supplies coal to the Loy Yang A power station and the Alinta owned Loy Yang B power as the fuel to generate electricity. Each year about 30 million tonnes of coal is produced. AGL Loy Yang power station runs 24/7 and in 2014 completed a $60 million integrated control and monitoring system (ICMS) conversion project that gave AGL Loy Yang state of the art digital controls.
Project: Developing Toolkits for Transgrid Trade Staff
Scope of works: Toolkits to work on low voltage equipment
TransGrid is the owner, operator and manager of the NSW high voltage transmission network and is committed to delivering a safe, secure, reliable and economically efficient network. Transgrid are transparent in how they conduct and enforce Health and Safety regulations on all of their work sites, stating, “As an essential service provider operating in a high risk environment, meeting a strong standard of health and safety is core to everything we do. We promote a positive safety culture in which all employees and contractors are encouraged to actively manage their safety and the safety of others”.
This article recently appeared in the Australasian Mine Safety Journal and gives a great summary of the importance of safety when accessing confined spaces.
Throughout Australia each and every year confined space deaths continue to occur despite concerted efforts by Government regulators, safety and engineering professionals. Unfortunately, statistics show that these events often involve multiple fatalities and sometimes occur in organisations that have mature procedures and processes in place to manage confined spaces.