HSEQ initiatives in the bituminous industry

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HSEQ initiatives in the bituminous industry

• RPF - November 2005

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Contents

• Sabitas HSEQ policy
• COSHEC
• Achievements to date
• Current initiatives
• Challenges

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Sabitas HSEQ policy

• Encourage members to conduct their business in
  such a manner as to
• Avoid harm or injury to the health of employees
  or persons
• Avoid damage or loss to environment
• Ensure the manufacture of quality products and
  the safe delivery thereof
• Implement BAT to limit emissions, noise and
  production of waste

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PPP the triple bottom line

• Companies should adopt the triple bottom line
  when developing business plans
• The Prosperity of the company is put side by side
  with the needs of the People and the Planet
• Profitability should not be pursued at the
  expense of compromising employee wellness and
  damage to the environment
• Its no longer a choice its an OBLIGATION

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Goals

• Members will adopt policies that will
• Ensure they are informed on legislative
  requirements and obligations
• Yield value statements whereby HSEQ is
  incorporated in profitability
• Enable an informed status on global HSEQ
• Benchmark them against recorded industry
  performance standards
• Participate in Sabita led incentives to improve
  performance

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Critical success factors

• Engaging members on the adoption of value
  statements and policies
• Disseminate global best practice
• Establish and operate communication programmes on
  HSEQ
• Launch (safety) performance assessment programmes
• Develop and hold courses

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COSHEC

• Centre for Occupational Safety Health and
  Environment Conservation
• One of the 4 Focus groups in Sabita
• First meeting on 5 August 2003
• Membership broadly represents all industry
  sectors
• Dedicated funding by Oil companies

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Operations
Council
COSHEC
Executive
Governance
Board
Management of budgets
Administrative support
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Vision

• COSHEC is a professional, creditable focal point
  of Sabita to incentivise members to adopt a
  culture of corporate responsibility in respect of
  sustainable work practices, worker safety and
  environmental protection

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Achievements to date include

• Position paper on discontinuation of coal tar
• Delisting of pen grade bitumen as hazardous waste
• Reclassification of pen grade bitumen under UN
  code 3257
• HSE entrenched in CAPSA
• Enhanced scope for HSEQ in Sabita business plan
• Publishing Guidelines for the safe responsible
  handling of bituminous products
• Formal partner with other global industry
  organisations to address HSEQ issues

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IARC monograph

• 2.2 million study by IARC to examine
  carcinogenicity of bitumen fumes
• Examine contribution of confounding factors to
  workers health
• Findings will be peer reviewed by ACGIH MAK in
  Dresden in June 2006
• To assist IARC to incorporate current knowledge
  in monograph
• Sabita to co-sponsor with other international
  industrial bodies to support global efforts to
  ensure worker wellness

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BitSafe course

• Developed a course on safe handling of liquid
  bitumen
• The course focuses on identification of hazardous
  situations and the risks associated with binders
• Designed in modular format to
• Accommodate all levels of employees given diverse
  cultures
• Allow for short interventions to minimise impact
  on production
• Consists of 13 modules which cover all activities
  associated with the handling of binders during
  loading off-loading, transport, storage and
  disposal
• Training methodology is facilitator based and
  trainees are encouraged to share own work
  experiences

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Implementation of BitSafe

• Recruitment and training of suitable employees as
  trainers
• AsAc Board has accepted the responsibility for
  training accrediting trainers and certifying
  the trainees
• Trainers to conduct training at their work places
• Trainers will have the support of
• Training manual
• Video
• Power point slides/overheads
• All learners to be assessed on-the-job
• All employees to undergo the training within a 2
  year period

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Incident data base

• Develop and implement a process of incident
  reporting to
• Promote self regulation
• Monitor occurrence type of work place incidents
  relating to safety
• Determine trends update work practices to avoid
  future incidents
• Compile a data base for benchmarking
• Cultivate a safety conscious culture

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Implementation of incident reporting

• Any event which results in or could have caused
• Injury, illness, exposure above legal limits,
• Damage to property, fire, explosion or spillage
• must be reported
• Every incident must be investigated and
  documented
• Route cause must identified and steps taken to
  prevent re-occurrence
• Each company to appoint a person to report
  incidents to Sabita
• Sabita to record and circulate a register of
  lessons learnt to members

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Load Accreditation Program

• Formed a steering committee to implement LAP for
  transport of HMA
• LAP is an initiative of NDoT and is a key
  strategy in effecting overload control
• LAP benefits include inter alia improved road
  safety and driver wellness
• Tippers accredited with LAP will be exonerated
  from time consuming detours to Provincial weight
  bridges
• This will obviate mix being too cold for placing
  and the need for it to be dumped
• The plan is to implement a pilot project in the
  Western Cape

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Bitumen waste disposal

• Delisting of penetration grade as a hazardous
  waste was granted by DWAF
• Disposal permitted at selected landfill sites
  under certain conditions
• Permit application
• Keep accurate records
• Only sites with a leachate detection system
  qualify
• 19 sites have been identified in
• KZN, Gauteng, W Cape, E Cape Free State
• Once in place it will promote legal disposal

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Sabita Safety File

• Published to assist members in the compilation of
  a statutory Contract Safety File
• Safety File covers
• Risk assessments
• Safe work procedures
• Safety management responsibilities
• Personnel appointments
• Duties responsibilities of safety personnel
• relevant to all activities involved in the
  application of bituminous materials in terms of
  the OHS Act

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Sabita Safety File cont..,

• Construction activities and plant usage relating
  to
• Spray and chip
• Slurry sealing
• Laying hot mix asphalt
• Hauling of asphalt
• Milling
• Crack sealing
• Sampling and testing
• Traffic accommodation
• Site hygiene
• Waste management

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CAPSA 07

• Plenary and tutorial session on HSEQ with themes
  on
• Legislative framework for self regulation within
  the industry
• Developing a global strategy for interaction with
  the IARC study on fumes
• Reduced temperatures of mixing and paving of hot
  mix asphalt
• Safe handling of liquid bituminous binders
• Alternative products to coal tar in road
  construction

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Challenges

• Find cost effective alternatives to tar products
• Members to adopt a corporate responsibility
  towards HSEQ
• Members acceptance of participation in COSHEC
  initiatives