T urner Industries’ 2014 United Way campaign kicked off at the Baton Rouge, Louisiana August
safety meeting. Capital Area United Way President and CEO Darrin Goss, Sr. attended the
kickoff along with several members of his staff.
This year’s guest speaker was NASCAR driver, David Starr, who told stories from his childhood, how he
became a racecar driver and discussed the importance of safety, teamwork and community involve-
ment. David also shared the fact that he is, indeed, a welder and did most of the welding on his own
cars in the early days of his career. His stories were much appreciated by everyone and he finished the
evening by signing baseball caps and conversing with employees. Since then, the regional offices have
followed suit at their safety meetings, kicking off United Way campaigns in their areas.
And We’re Off! Corporate-Wide United Way Campaign Underway
I n 2008, Turner Industries’ crane
and rigging group was chosen by
Ceva Logistics to provide crane and
rigging support for the offloading and
re-locating of Rolls-Royce prototype
jet engines. The engines are in the
certification and testing phase at the
Rolls-Royce facility located within
the John C. Stennis NASA facility in
Stennis, Mississippi.
Arriving from England on one of the
largest commercial transport planes
in service, the Russian Antonov,
the jet engines are transported in a
frame designed specifically for that
engine. Total engine and frame vary
in weight from 46,000 pounds to
89,000 pounds. Since performing the
first lift in 2008, Turner has been the
preferred lifting contractor in the Gulf
South to lift these engines. Currently
averaging two to three engine lifts per
year, Turner expects the number to
increase due to the recent expansion
of the testing facility.
Pictured is one of the scaffold teams currently at Shintech – Plaquemine, Louisiana.
Darren Goss, United Way Executive Director and NASCAR driver David Starr at Turner’s United Way Kickoff.
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Rolls-Royce engine being lifted from the Antonov.
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Scaffold Group Celebrates One Year with ZERO OSHA Recordables—Companywide
T he scaffold group—companywide—has accom-
plished the completion of one year with ZERO
OSHA recordables. During this year, our scaffolding
employees worked over 720,000 hours on 217 different jobs.
Special recognition goes to the
Houston region whose last record-
able was in 2006, and the Lake
Charles region which has now com-
pleted over two years with ZERO
OSHA recordables.
Did you know...
“I would like to congratulate and sincerely thank each and every one of the scaffold group for the hard work and leadership you have shown that has made this possible. I’m proud to be a part of this team.” – David Guitreau Sr. Vice President
• The Shell Motiva – Norco, Louisiana site had 100% employee participation in Turner’s 2014 United Way
Campaign. Very impressive, considering 624 employees work at that site.
• The Houston personnel department led the way for sites in Texas with 100% participation.
Thank you to all our employees for being part of the SOLUTION!
Some 2014 Campaign Highlights:
Facebook.com/TurnerIndustries
A collaborative effort by Turner Industries’ pipe fab-
rication and modular yards (Port Allen, Louisiana),
and the equipment and specialty services division (Baton
Rouge, Louisiana) resulted in the fabrication, testing, as-
sembly and delivery of four quench oil/steam assemblies
on the KBR Equistar CVO Furnace Project. This collabora-
tion enabled Turner to reduce the time required by the
client in their installation schedule, providing significant
cost savings as well.
Westway Terminal Bridge Expansion
“ To protect and to serve” won a motto contest in
1955 in the Los Angeles Police Department and
since has spread throughout the land of law en-
forcement countrywide. Within Turner, we have a small
group of professionals who emulate this motto in a dif-
ferent way. Corporate project controls was founded to
protect and to serve the company in the areas of planning,
scheduling and cost control.
“To Protect…”
The primary goal is to support efforts for maintenance,
construction or turnaround projects by using methods,
techniques and work processes that protect key proj-
ect information from corruption of any kind. Integrity of
project data is essential for project managers and stake-
holders in the decision making process. We aim to have
dependable, predictable indicators for project cost and
schedule health.
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T urner’s quality control
(QC) department, C.F.
Industries and Stami-
carbon, a global market leader
in development and licensing of
urea technology, joined forces to
develop and qualify a welding pro-
cedure for Safurex® urea piping at
the C.F. Industries plant in Donald-
sonville, Louisiana. Eight welders
Quality Control
Construction
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The Safurex urea pipe at the Donald-
sonville plant is required to be welded
in accordance with the ASME B31.3
Code and the manufacturer’s (Sta-
micarbon) specific requirements. All
qualification (procedure and welder)
test coupons had to be sent to the
Netherlands and reviewed by a Sta-
micarbon engineer for acceptance.
The welding presented some unique
problems as no one in the U.S. had
ever welded this material before. C.F.
Industries arranged for a Stamicarbon
representative to travel to Louisiana
and assist the Turner QC depart-
ment in qualifying a welding proce-
dure for use at the plant site. They
then arranged for a welding instructor to come in
and train eight of Turner’s best welders, six con-
struction welders and two maintenance welders,
on the unique characteristics of the material. All
eight welders passed their qualification tests and
are now working at the Donaldsonville site. Three of
Turner’s QC supervisors also attended the training
and will be training the site inspectors during the
construction phase of the project.
Safurex® is a registered trademark of Sandvik Intellectual Property AB Sweden
Project Controls
Fabrication Information Technology
Project Controls Group ‘Protects & Serves’ Across the Company
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Turner Industries Assists in Developing & Qualifying Rigorous Welding Procedure
Multiple Divisions Work Together on Impressive Pipe Modules
Safurex pipe welding in progress.
were trained and qualified to weld the
Safurex pipe.
Safurex is a high-performance duplex
stainless steel that is highly resistant to
corrosion in urea service. Welding of this
material requires special techniques to
avoid affecting the material in an adverse
way that would make it susceptible to cor-
rosion while in service.
T urner Industries’ construction division recently
completed the Westway Terminal Pipe Bridge
Project in Port Allen, Louisiana. The project in-
cluded deep drilled shafts adjacent to the Mississippi
River levee, foundations, and the fabrication and instal-
lation of pipe bridge trusses. The new pipe bridge trusses
extend from the levee, across a major highway, to the
terminal. Turner’s equipment division provided the large
cranes for lifting the trusses. The project was completed
injury-free thanks to the leadership of Dwain Spurgeon
and Jimmy Rogers.
“Turner First” Strategy Culminates in New Pipe Bridge Expansion
“…and to Serve”
Corporate project controls serves
all company business units and
performs the following support
functions:
Training – assessment and train-
ing for all entry level positions of
planners and field engineers including Primavera project management training
and workshops. Targeted training in the advance use of proprietary planning
software developed in-house such as Quickplan™, WinPCS™ and WinTake™.
Project Support - implementation of project controls on new projects as well
as current jobsite assessments and recommendations for improvements with
new workflows, tools or technology as necessary. The group also provides
subject matter expertise and continuously recruits new talent to meet cus-
tomer demands.
Project controls
O n August 2, 2014 SQL Satur-
day was held at the LSU Col-
lege of Business in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Several members of
Turner Industries’ IT department
attended the event, which had a
record number of visitors.
At the Turner booth, visitors were invited to participate in a light saber
assembly contest. It was a very popular event and the winner, Marvin Bry-
ant, impressed everyone by completing the task in only 9.12 seconds! The
fastest Turner employee was Brad Hughes, with a time of 16.40 seconds.
SQL Saturday is a global event bringing Information Technology speakers
and professionals together for a community-driven, community-attended
day of technical training. This free conference is open to the public and is
geared towards students, CIO’s, database administrators, developers, IT
managers, server administrators and job-seekers.
Employees from the fabrication and modular yards, and equipment and specialty services in front of the first quench oil/steam module, which is ready for shipment.
IT Department Participates in World’s Largest Technical Training Event
Turner booth at SQL Saturday
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A s part of the 9/11
day of service
and remembrance,
BASF and United Way
held a job fair at the
Mall of Louisiana in
Baton Rouge on Sep-
tember 11, in which
Turner participated.
It was a busy day with lots of jobseekers visiting the
Turner booth. The job fair was among several activities
that day meant to engage the local community and
to honor our veterans, those currently in the Armed
Forces, and many of our local first responders.
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E arlier this fall, Turner
Industries provided
a lunch for students
attending Dow’s “Women
in Welding” class at the Ba-
ton Rouge Community Col-
lege, Westside Campus in
Plaquemine, Louisiana to cel-
ebrate the completion of their
class. These women now hold
an NCCER core welding certi-
fication. They have T-joint and
open V-groove certifications,
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Community Training Effort Kicks Off Second Year
Pictured are graduates from the Women in Welding class to-gether with Mike Stirrat, Turner site manager at Dow – Plaquemine, Louisiana and one of the welding instructors.
Workforce Development
Turner Industries Attends BASF & Capital Area United Way Job Fair
Sherri Wise, Turner NCCER coor-dinator and Steve Millet, Turner safety supervisor at BASF, talking to job fair attendees.
‘Women in Welding’ Complete Certification Class
A revamped North Baton Rouge Indus-
trial Training Initiative (NBRITI) class
opened for registration this fall. Prospective
students were invited to the Baton Rouge
Community College Acadian Campus to
learn about and sign up for the program.
This year’s curriculum has been improved
by the addition of more life-skills training.
Evaluations from last semester showed that
life-skills training is vital to the success of a
person’s career, and this was something the
original program lacked.
The Turner Industries workforce develop-
ment group attended the career fair, held
in conjunction with the registration, which
was a great success.
Also attending the event were Carlos Evans
and Donald Cook, two graduates from the
previous class held in 2012. They are now
working for Turner at ExxonMobil. The two
were there to share their success stories
and inspire others to pursue a career in our
industry and take advantage of the NBRI-
TI opportunity.
The NBRITI is a collaborative effort by
the Capital Area Technical College, Baton
Rouge Community College, ExxonMobil,
Turner Industries and other industrial lead-
ers, nonprofit organizations and community
resource partners. The initiative provides
selected participants with free training in
one of three concentrations—pipefitting,
welding or electrical.
Left to right: Carlos Evans, Sam Ashley, Turner site manager at ExxonMobil and Donald Cook.
Information Technology
I n a perfect environment, using estimating standards alone would minimize the risk of budget and schedule noncompliance during planned outages and turnarounds. However, planned outages and turnarounds, as we know, are not perfect environ-
ments. Each is unique in that each possesses various combinations of risk driven from different levels of inefficiencies.
Budget and schedule noncompliance related to execution of most events stems from inaccuracy associated with direct labor work-hour estimations. Inside of this, we find most contributing factors are surrounded by either not using estimating standards or using them, but not applying an accurate inefficiency multiple. If you cannot correctly identify the problem, how can you mitigate it?
Created In-House, TRAM™ Software Reduces Turnaround Financial Risks
If we told you that by identifying and quantifying the potential inefficiencies associated with your turnaround you had the opportunity to mitigate ap-proximately half of your financial risk, would you be interested? Because unidentified risk cannot be man-aged; it cannot be mitigated. If you could identify and also quantify that risk into a dollar amount, you could actually mitigate that risk into a tangible cost savings before the project even starts, significantly improving the accuracy of your plan efficiency, productivity, and ultimately your final cost and schedule forecasting.
Turner Industries is excited to release a brand new proprietary software product that provides unparal-leled advantages to our customers known as TRAM™ software, which is our patent-pending Turnaround Risk Analysis Model. TRAM software is a client-driven, interactive process that allows our customers to iden-tify and quantify 14 common industry-risk categories. TRAM software is a user-friendly, Web-based appli-cation designed by Turner’s strategic turnaround ser-vices group and developed in-house by our software development group.
“I believe our clients will be impressed with the fact this rather complex system is so easy to use and navigate. All the hard work is done by the software; you just have to plug in the numbers,” said Dwight Braud, executive vice president of maintenance at Turner.
Being able to accurately identify inefficiencies, and either mitigate or account for them in a turnaround plan, provides the basis for the level of overall success of the turnaround. By performing an initial risk analysis that is validated by current site personnel with experience in past outages and turnaround execution, TRAM software will help quantify that risk into a tangible dollar amount, which can then be used as the basis for making data-driven business decisions.
“On average, when the TRAM software solution is used, mitigated risk can be measured in the millions,” said Sean Reyn-olds, operations manager of strategic turn-around services at Turner.
During the risk analysis process, TRAM software allows for true collaboration be-tween client and Turner in identifying the levels of inefficiencies in the risk determi-native conditions specific to that location. Once the TRAM software has quantified the initial risk, management can put an action plan into place, refresh the data if necessary and start the mitigation process.
For more information, or if you would like to sched-ule a demonstration, contact Sean Reynolds at [email protected] or (225) 214-2147.
Pictured left to right are Sean Reynolds, Turner Industries strategic turnaround services operations manager, with his TRAM™ software development team: Rhonda Kiser, Turner manager of software QA/IT training; Nhi Nguyen, Sparkhound software developer; Kevin Landry, Turner director of software development/IT training; Tucker Houston, Turner software developer; Megan Guillot, Turner IT training/QA analyst; Jacques Steward and Chad Kruszynsky, Turner software developers.
and many of them want to continue training to
become combination welders.
Mike Stirrat, Turner’s site manager at Dow
Plaquemine at the time, and Wayne Tyson, Turn-
er workforce development manager, have both
served as part of the BRCC Westside Campus
Steering Team and act as a direct resource to the
program. In addition to helping with the develop-
ment of the mechanical training curriculum, and
getting equipment and supplies, they also assist
with general support, like promoting education
and training in the community.
“On average, when the TRAM™ software solution is used, mitigated risk can be measured in the millions.” – Sean Reynolds Operations Manager of Strategic Turnaround Services
G errad Delatte, vice
president of esti-
mating – Turner Industries
eastern division, has been
elected president of the
Louisiana State Universi-
ty Construction Industry
Advisory Council (LSU
CIAC).
“I am honored to serve as
president of such an outstanding organization,” said Gerrad. “As an LSU construction man-
agement alum, this program is dear to my heart. I look forward to working with the CIAC
officers, board of directors, and members to continue the tradition of providing unparalleled
support and guidance for the LSU Construction Management Department.”
LSU CIAC was established in 1997 to help build the LSU Construction Management Depart-
ment into the premier training ground for construction managers who are ready to hit the
ground running. LSU’s construction management program currently has one of the largest
student enrollments in the country among universities with construction programs.
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ABC Greater Houston Chapter Receives ‘Presidential’ Donation from Turner Industries
T urner Industries has pledged a Presi-
dent’s level donation to the ABC
Greater Houston Chapter in support of the
renovation of their newly acquired building.
The new location will provide greater access
to services, larger training rooms and more.
The donation is a pledge of $10,000 a year
for five consecutive years.
GBRIA Awards Turner Industries for Workforce Development Excellence
T he Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alli-
ance, Inc. (GBRIA) announced the win-
ners of its Seventh Annual Craft Workforce
Development Excellence Awards at a ban-
quet held on September 4th at the Renais-
sance Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Turner Industries received the craft workforce
development “Excellence Award” General
Construction & Maintenance, Division III.
Turner Specialty Services was awarded the
craft workforce development “Excellence
Award” Hard Craft, Division III.
The awards recognize and reward contrac-
tors who invest in workforce development
programs that include recruitment, assess-
ment, training, career path development and
retention of employees.
Safety
“I am honored to serve as president of such an outstanding organization.”
– Gerrad Delatte President LSU Construction Industry Advisory Council
Recipient of OSHA StarTurner Industrial Maintenance at Rubicon – Geismar, Louisiana
Recipient of OSHA Super StarTurner Industries Group at Syngenta – St. Gabriel, Louisiana
OSHA Star of Excellence Turner Industries Group at Occidental – Convent, Louisiana
Turner Industries Group at Occidental – Taft, Louisiana
Turner Industries Group at Marathon – Garyville, Louisiana
Safety Milestone at UOP/Honeywell Site
Recordable Free at Shell Motiva Site
T urner Industries’ con-
struction division has
met a major milestone, working
500,000 hours over the past
year in the UOP/Honeywell -
Shreveport, Louisiana facility
without an OSHA recordable.
The work encompassed mul-
tiple projects, including a grass
roots plant expansion.
Turner is self-performing the
electrical and instrumenta-
tion work. To date, over 2,000
cubic yards of concrete have
been poured, nearly 1,000 tons
of steel have been erected, and
50,000 linear feet of pipe have
been installed in these projects.
T urner Industries at the Shell Mo-
tiva – Norco, Louisiana site has
worked 17 months and 1.8 million hours
OSHA recordable free. During this time,
the onsite crews have completed sev-
eral major maintenance projects and
turnaround events. As always, Turner
strives daily toward GOAL ZERO at the
Shell Motiva - Norco site.
One Year OSHA Recordable Free At Phillips 66
One Year OSHA Recordable Free at Shell Chemical
O n October 8, Turner Industries
employees at Phillips 66 Refinery
in Belle Chasse, Louisiana celebrated
one year with ZERO OSHA recordables.
The onsite supervisor and the employ-
ees’ ambition to maintain a positive
safe work culture, one task at a time,
made this possible.
T urner Industries’ maintenance and
project groups at Shell Chemical
located in Saraland, Alabama, achieved
one year recordable free on September
23, 2014. Our employees worked over
210,000 work-hours during the past
year executing routine maintenance,
small capital projects, scaffolding,
painting, insulation and turnarounds.
Five Turner Industries Sites Earn Elite Industry Safety Status
Announcements
Ray Neck, training manager; Elizabeth Beckham, learning and development manager; Sherri Wise, NCCER administrator and Wayne Tyson, workforce development manager accepting the workforce development award on behalf of Turner Industries.
Gerrad Delatte Elected President of the Louisiana State University Construction Industry Advisory Council
New Look! Same Great TEAM!
TEAM Turner™ has a new look. Check out the new logo!
TEAM Turner is our employee-directed program
supported by Turner Industries to promote com-
munity involvement, teamwork and camarade-
rie. It allows employees to identify charitable
causes they wish to support, and provides a
structured framework through which volunteer
support and other resources are directed.
Not a member? We want you! If you are interested in joining TEAM Turner, send an email to: [email protected] contact Michelle Hardy at (225) 214-2637.
Gerrad Delatte
T urner is proud to announce five additional Voluntary
Protection Program (VPP) Star Sites. The VPP rec-
ognizes employers and workers who have implemented
effective safety and health management systems and
maintain injury and illness rates below national Bureau of
Labor Statistics averages for their respective industries.
Pictured are winners of the prize drawings held during the safety luncheon. C ontinuing the tradition of operations manage-
ment excellence, Turner’s maintenance divi-
sion senior management created the “Voice
of Leadership” class. This in-house training is attended
by employees recommended by their respective project
managers. The classes prepare the selected employees
for future leadership roles and assist them in enhancing
their communications skills.
Developed from actual Turner job experiences, partici-
pants analyze workplace case study situations. Through
written reports and oral presentations, they address
resolving issues with multiple players including other
employees, company management and clients. This fall
our Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas offices
each graduated a class of new leaders.
Lake Charles operations also graduated their third lead-
ership class. This class, taught by David Franks, senior
vice president, is based on the principles highlighted
in John Maxwell’s book, “Leadership 101 – What Every
Leader Needs to Know.”
Congratulations to our 2014 Graduates!
Meet Turner Industries’ 2014 Leadership Graduates
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Houston, Texas
P.O. Box 2750Baton Rouge, LA 70821
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