Drydocks World & Maritime World group announces the achievement of major safety milestones on World Safety & Health Day

Drydocks World & Maritime World group, the leading service provider to the marine sector and maritime industries of the oil, gas and energy industry, reiterated its commitment to Occupational Health & Safety during World Safety & Health Day on April 28, 2014, the Company said in a press release.

Several awareness programmes and competitions were organised for employees on this day in Drydocks World, Dubai Maritime City, Jadaf and its subsidiaries. The shipyard also announced major safety milestones on two of its key projects including achievement of 2.5 million man hours LTI-free on the pioneering DolWin beta project and 2 million man hours LTI-free in April, 2014 on the UK’s Solan subsea oil storage tank being constructed at the shipyard.

The environmentally friendly DolWin beta will act as a 900 MW electricity transmission link that will connect offshore wind farms located at the DolWin wind farm area near Helgoland in the German sector of the North Sea. The Solan subsea oil storage tank is of dimensions 45 x 45 x 25 metres and is being built at the Drydocks World - Dubai facility for Premier Oil. The Solan field is located in the UK North Sea, west of the Shetland Islands.

His Excellency Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World & Maritime World said, “We are committed to propagating a high-performing and sustainable safety according to the Zero Harm slogan within the organization. We would like to ensure that risk controls are committed at all levels. This underpins our approach to project delivery, at the same time encouraging innovation to counter, existing or developing risks. Reporting is actively encouraged among employees with an emphasis on learning from these reports. We ensure that health and safety messages, goals and targets are clearly communicated all across the organisation. This commitment reflects our safety standards that our business partners are proud of and which were clearly outlined by them on existing projects and in their audits on the performance of all group companies’ procedures and performance throughout the years.”

The excellent health and safety performance was possible due to a dedicated and focused approach from the project teams in areas such as hot work compliance , risk assessments for performing jobs, simultaneous operations, housekeeping, efficient communication network using portable radios among those working in confined spaces, coupled with excellent coordination between safety inspectors, project management team and supervision for greater accountability in delivering the project to the stakeholders .

A series of audits by reputed international companies has proved beyond a doubt the company’s excellence in leadership, business strategy as well as the implementing of vision in the field of occupational health, safety and security and the environment and its exemplary vision in institutional health, safety and environment. Drydocks World has maintained an extremely high level of leadership excellence in all of its systems and long term policies while inculcating a strong culture towards HSE based on the concept of “Zero Harm’ in all of its operations including the building of sophisticated cutting edge projects for its major global partners.

Drydocks World is the recipient of the prestigious Sword of Honor for 2013 from the British Safety Council and has the ISO 14001 and BS OHSAS 18001 certificates for Occupational Health & Safety and Environment. It is proud to maintain a global record in completing 30 million man hours of work without the occurrence of any major incidents during the year 2013 in all of its operations. In addition, 7.2 million (7,220,425) man hours without Lost Time injury has been achieved in the first quarter of 2014.