European Safety at Work Week 2011

Safe Maintenance

History

• The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work was set up in Spain in 1996 with a mission ‘to make Europe's workplaces safer, healthier and more productive’

• In 2000 the European Safety at Work Week was introduced and is traditionally run on the third week of October each year

• Each year the agency focuses on a topical theme, producing materials for employers to use in order to raise awareness in the workplace

Focus for 2011/12…….

Maintenance has implications for safety in many ways:

• Keeping up to date with our maintenance responsibilities will reduce the risk of inadvertent failures

•Conducting maintenance can often expose operatives to more risk

•The design of equipment is often the stage where many built in risks can be removed

Is safe maintenance a critical factor for EDF Energy?

Incidents that focus the mind……

"unsafe and antiquated equipment designs were left in place, and unacceptable deficiencies in preventative maintenance were tolerated.“ Carolyn W. Merritt

Chair of the Chemical Safety Board

BP Texas City 23 March 2005, 15 people were killed and more than 170 injured

Incidents that focus the mind……

“Tragically it appears that the lack of one document was enough to trigger the worst offshore disaster in the industry’s history.”

Lord Cullen

Head of Piper Alpha Inquiry Panel

Piper Alpha, North Sea Oil Rig Disaster July 1988, 167 out of the 229 people on boardwere killed. The disaster was triggered after a permit to work on a back up pump was missed and was brought back into service with vital parts removed.