2004 TWM Hands and Fingers Package English

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Hand and Finger Injuries 2004
WORKING AS A TEAM TO PREVENT HANDS AND FINGER
INJURIES
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Hand and Finger Injuries 2004

• Hands and Finger Injuries are the most common
  Lost Time Injury Incidents in PDO.
• whether major or minor they result in pain and
  suffering to the person injured and ultimately to
  their family and loved ones.
• For this reason, all efforts must be made to
  prevent all injuries
• and specifically Hands and Finger Injuries
• Presently Well Engineering is the single largest
  contributor
• of LTIs in PDO !

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Hands and Finger Injuries, Where are we heading ?
Some Facts
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• Why are we having such a large amount of hands
  and finger injuries?
• Large workforce in field (exposure ) - about
  7000 people
• Nature of job
• repetitive actions, manual handling
• hazardous tools (tongs, wrenches, tubulars,
  winches, wire ropes etc.)
• Cost Constraints on Operations /
  Technological Constraint
• cannot have fully automatic rigs,
  operations depend upon human input
• Local staff employment (social commitment to
  the Omani people)
• many green hands
• complacency by experienced hands
• Fatigue and Work Stress.
• long hours of stressful work (lapses in
  concentration)

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The result Irreparable Damage

• Hands and Fingers are tools whose
• spares are not available in any store for
• any price !
• Injury to them causes untold pain and
• suffering to the individual and his loved
• ones
• Loosing or seriously damaging a hand or
• finger affects you and your family for
• the rest of your life
• These incidents occur all too often doing
• your routine jobs, jobs you thought you
• knew well

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hands and fingers have more nerve endings per
square centimeter than any other part of your
body ? hands and fingers also have more pain
receptors than any other part of your body. That
is why finger injuries are more painful than
similar injuries to other parts of the
body. injuries to hands and fingers are the most
common causes of lost time accidents in industry
today. consequences of these injuries may vary
from a small dressing to permanent disability .
More Facts
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Can we STOP these injuries and reverse the trend ?
YES we can !!
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Hand and Finger Injuries 2004
Caught between objects
To avoid these incidents, we already have the
required tools to help us!
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Our Motive To go home from work in the same
condition as we arrived Zero tolerance to Hands
and Finger injuries
The benefits are for all to see!
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Our Tools, the way forward ! 1.The Hearts and
Minds Way All staff are to be made aware, in
a compassionate way that injuries harm them
and their loved ones. No job is as important that
it should be done in manner which can cause
harm to the worker.

• Enhanced Site Supervision
• Supervisors, Toolpushers, DSVs ensure
• that Unsafe Acts and Conditions are
• continuously recognised and
• eliminated, by engaging staff in a two
• way communication.
• Never underestimate the effect of an
• enthusiastic supervisor, you can make a
• big difference

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Our Tools, the way forward ! Hearts and Minds
Contd

• Behaviour Based Safety
• Understanding the behaviour of our staff as
  to what causes them to commit unsafe acts which
  result in accidents, will help us introduce
  remedial actions in accident prevention. It will
  not happen to me syndrome can be eliminated
• Working Safely
• Encourage workers discussions on
• their work related Safety Issues,
• the incidents they had so that
• similar situations are avoided, this
• depends on your enthusiasm

Typical Well Eng Accident causes (April04)
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Our Tools, the way forward !

• Empowerment to stop
• UNSAFE WORK
• This powerful tool has been in the Company
  for a long time but is often confused with
  Duponts STOP Programme.
• Lack of commitment, fear of punitive actions
  hampers its success. Infact this is best way to
  avoid potential accidents.
• It is your right and duty to stop work when you
  consider the job to be unsafe, management will
  back you on this

IF IT IS UNSAFE DONT DO IT !
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Our Tools, the way forward !

• STOP Programme
• This should be used primarily as an Accident
• Prevention tool. After the required training
• staff are aware of STOP observation
• techniques to be carried out at worksites
• where most of the Unsafe Acts Unsafe
• Conditions prevail. Any unsafe work is
  stopped
• and rectification process is started
• immediately, similar situations are averted
  in
• the longer run. STOP database trends help in
• identifying problem areas so that suitable
• action is taken.

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Our Tools, the way forward !

• Effective Toolbox Talks
• This is the key to ensure that all the hazards
• associated with the job i.e hands and finger
• injury hazards are well understood by staff.
• Necessary precautions are taken
• to avoid potential situations.

Toolbox talks will never be consistently of
quality unless they are recorded, consider
starting to record on your location! An
enthusiastic and well run TBT will prevent
incidents
Take Care of Green Hands
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Our Tools, the way forward !

• Hazard Awareness and its Management
• Supervisors and Workers both have
  responsibility and duty to

IDENTIFY
ASSESS
RECOVER
CONTROL
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ZERO LTI is not a futuristic idea !
Year 2003 Shell Norway has achieved ZERO LTIF
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Hand and Finger Injuries 2004
Summary Because of the geographical location of
Oman and the financial facts of life of the Omani
oil industry we are not going to be able to
significantly change the equipment we use or
influence the yearly changes in climate We have
to rely on the actions and enthusiasm of people
to prevent hands and finger injuries The tools
are in place to prevent hand and finger injuries,
Its how effectively you use these tools that
makes the difference. Efforts are required by
supervisors and crews at the worksites to use
these tools, commitment is required by all
management to support the worksites by all means
possible
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Last Word Have you done everything to prevent
Hands Finger Injuries on your Rig / Hoist /
Workshop Consider the attached?

• Understanding Gloves
• Know Your Gloves
• LTI Cold Burn
• Glove Poster
• Coloured Gloves

• Are you looking after green hands effectively
• Green Hands
• Green Hats

Hand Protectors Rig Tongs 1. Hand Protectors

• TRIC Cards
• PDO TRIC Card
• TRIC Guide Plan
• TRIC Guidelines

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Thank You