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EHS Quarterly News Letter

Volume 2, Issue 2 June 2008

Gulf Spic Trading & Contracting Company W.L.L,

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Inside this issue:

Very many models are

What GM to say 2 available to compare with.
GS chose to verify the Eying for standard
Project Milestone 2
Project Compliance
Safety News 3 performance through British Explaining a crux
Safety Council well known
and acknowledged STAR
Safety Awards & 3 AUDIT REVIEW. Measure-
Contests ments are, quantitatively,
told to the organization high-
Meetings , Confer- 3 lighting areas where the or-
ences ganization fall short of ex-
pected Industrial standards
Fire Control 3 and where the organization
is performing well above re-
quirements. Bench Marking
EHS Annual 4 h- performance help
Report 2007— b enc strengthen the existing sys-
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What GM to say ……...

GM (P) expressed same spirit to attain However, when

overwhelmed happi- a Five Star in com- GS move to new
ness for having ing Audits. Also con- location probably
achieved Four Star gratulated everybody by end of June
status in projects. who had positively ‘08, it will achieve
Added that, way back contributed to this a good score like
• Do not use SPIC INDIA Ltd success. the projects.
achieved Five Star & And, strongly
mobile phone Pointed out that GS
a Sword of Honor in hope to obtain a
while driving. obtained a TWO
EHS Performance, Five Star in the
STAR status in deliv-
similar effort is to be near future.
• Keep hands- ering goods to peo-
free put forward to achieve ple in EHS. Major W ish in g yo u
Five Star in the future. constraints that lim- working safely.
Encouraged the team ited the STAR rating
of Safety Engineers to to GS was, mainly its
move forward with the present location.

• Trying to Projects Dahazing Project on the move. KNPC, MAB.

make up time
For the year 2007,
could cost

you your Safe Man-hours

life. worked without LTI =
• Save 46,36,034
tomorrow. LTIF = 0.04314
think safety
Aromatics Off-plot
today .
acquired Four Star-
Status in EHS Per-
formance.

SAFETY NEWS • GS is reviewing its EHS will be supplied

Let this not happen
• Aromatics Off-plot Manual as part of a rou- shortly.
achieved one million tine activity. Many a items
man-hours without pointed out during the
LTI by end of course of audit is duly in-
April’08. corporated with due care
for implementation. Hope
• KOM held on that it finds easier in han-
01.05.2008 in KOC, dling at site.
for Installation of • EHS Manual online
gravity drain system armofi.bravehost.com
in GC’s 17,27 & 28 ID: ARMOFI
Password: SKMSK
• EHS Performance
Report 2007—2008 • New EHS training pass-
circulated. port is under preparation
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Fire control
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Fire Triangle
World statistics say ma-
jor industrial accident
recorded is Fire. And
Managers involved in
Firefighting exercise.
Corporate HSE Meeting
Corporate HSE meeting
held on 29.05.2008 at
1700 hrs. Top execu-
tives attended. Delib-
erations recorded &
circulated to all con-
cerned.
EVENTS
GS organized a Safety
Day on 29.04.08 at 0930
hours. Managers & En-
gineers participated in
Fire fighting Exercises.
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most of the occurrence ters, smoke offshoots etc Fire protection starts at
is due to indiscriminate not only, affect the prop- the designing level. Meas-
Smoking at site. It is erty where it occurs but ures includes Fire wall,
needless to say, the also, the neighbouring Fire sprinklers or hy-
damage, a Fire can assets. It leaves an indeli- drants, smoke detectors &
cause to people, prop- ble imprint for years to alarming sensors, Isola-
erty and environment. come. tion & use of Fire proof
materials either in con-
Moreover, the after ef- Its , not merely a manda- struction or handling.
fect of fire that contin- tory measure but also Based on Fire risk assess-
ues, particularly when it obligatory on our part to ment measures are intro-
happens in chemical / control Fire in Industrial duced at designing stage.
processing unit takes working environment.
alarming image that hu- Fire control can be Fire prevention includes
man kind can not toler- through Fire protection & periodical inspection, au-
ate. Effects such as re- Fire Prevention methods. dits, maintenance regime,
lease of gas, heat radia- mock drills, reviewing the
tion, bursting of splin- Risk assessments etc .
GS Safety Day, 29.04.2008, 0930 hrs, RLD.
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Wider view of Safety
Day.
Safety Watch of
the month
Use “ Color code “
when using ropes,
slings, shackles
Oct – Dec Jan-
4 Qtr Mar
1 Qtr
Jul – Sep Apr – Jun
Dehazing awards for 3 Qtr 2 Qtr
the month of March
 Gulf Spic Trading & Contracting
W.L.L. Head Office, P.O.
Box:46551, Fahaheel 64016, Kuwait.

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Phone: 3260243, 0271, 0259
Fax: 3263527
E-mail: gs@gulfspic.com

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On-the-Job Training EHS Dept, Gulf Spic, Kuwait.

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