Introduction to the Southern African Bitumen Association

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Introduction to the Southern African Bitumen
Association
By Trevor Distin
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Who we are?

• Non profit organisation
• Started in 1979
• Members comprise of private companies
• Bitumen producers marketers
• Manufacturers applicators of bituminous
  products
• Consulting Engineers

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Membership growth
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Communications

• Asphalt News (3)
• Digest (annual)
• Electronic members news brief (6)
• www.sabita.co.za
• publications
• HSE materials
• Members only section

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Governance structures

• Sabita Ltd (the company)
• Governed by a board
• 6 sponsor members
• Sabita Council (the Association)
• 6 sponsor members
• 6 ordinary members (elected)
• 2 associate members (elected)
• Code of Conduct

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How are we funded

• Source
• Member subscriptions
• Sponsor members
• HSE levy (R2.55/t)
• Sponsorship (R9.80/t)
• Education grant (fixed)
• Other
• Total

• Value (2007)
• R779
• R4188
• R674
• R3020
• R494
• R304
• R5272

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What do we do?

• Promote excellence in the use of bitumen
  materials thru
• Development of best practice technology
• Promoting sustainable practices for construction
  maintenance of roads
• Education and training of practitioners
• Engaging all shareholders to promote the
  efficient provision of road delivery

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Achievements

• Technology development
• Update best practice guidelines
• Conduct research into bitumen stabilisation
• Conduct trial sections to improve performance of
  asphalt surfaces
• Revising test methods for bituminous materials
• Implement technology to
• Recycle old asphalt pavements
• Reduce mixing temperatures of asphalt
• Build long life heavy duty pavements

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Achievements

• 2. Sustainable practices
• Established Committee for Occupational Safety
  Health Environmental Conservation in 2003
• Lobby for discontinuation of coal tar in 2004
• Development of safe work practices in 2005
• Implementation of bitumen safety training scheme
  in 2006
• Launched HSE Charter in 2007
• Implementation of bitumen incident reporting
  scheme in 2008
• Development of HSE certification scheme in 2008

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COSHEC goals

• Maintain global standards on HSE in SA thru
• Keeping abreast with latest global developments
• Developing best practice guidelines using best
  available technology to cover the full spectrum
  of industry activities
• Incorporating HSE principles into all courses
  conducted publications produced on behalf of
  Sabita
• Develop a protocol for self-regulation to ensure
  that safety standards are maintained and
  environmental conservation is not compromised

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Keeping abreast with global best practice

• Global Strategic Alliance formed to ensure
  sustainability of the asphalt industry through
  exchange of information
• Agreement signed on 20 May 2008 between Asphalt
  Paving Associations of
• Australia (AAPA)
• Europe (EAPA)
• Japan (JRCA)
• South Africa (Sabita)
• United States (NAPA)

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Development of safe practices

• Updated guidelines for safe handling of
  bituminous products Manual 8 in 2003
• Publish Contract safety file in 2006 to assist
  companies involved in construction
• Standard Code of Practice for loading bitumen at
  all refineries in 2008
• Driver requirements
• Vehicle requirements
• Loading procedures

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HSE tools

• DVDs
• Safe handling of bitumen
• Treatment of bitumen burns
• Working safely with bitumen
• Posters
• Wear your PPE
• BitSafe first aid kit

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BitSafe Trainers

• Oil Companies
• BP, Chevron, Engen(3), Natref, Shell (3)
• Asphalt
• National, More, Much(10)
• Binder
• Colas, Javseal, Hillary (2), Tarspray, Tosas(3),
  Bituguard

• Contractor
• Blacktop(2), Nyanga, Phambili, Power, Zebra
• Transporter
• BRS, Crossmore, Javelin(2)
• Government
• EThekwini

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HSE Charter Certification scheme

• Charter
• Developed as a framework to formulate a
  certification scheme
• Compliance to the principles of the Charter is a
  pre-requisite for Sabita membership
• Certification scheme
• Criteria have been developed to
• Measure conformance against the requirements of
  the HSE Charter
• Ensure minimum legal requirements are met
• Members sites to be audited annually

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Achievements

• 3. Education Training
• Established Asphalt Academy in 2001
• Hosting international Conference on Asphalt
  Pavements for SA every 4 years
• Support the Society for Asphalt Technology

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Achievements

• 4. Engaging stakeholders
• Councilors workshops on importance of maintaining
  roads
• Co-host Road Pavement Forum biannually for all
  road stakeholders
• Presidential report on supply capacity
  constraints

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Presidential task team

• Part of ASGISA is increased investment in
  infrastructure to meet economic growth goals
• Government concerned about key inputs for
  construction i.e. materials, equipment skills
• Established to study and identify ways to deal
  with possible bottlenecks
• Initiative is to support the achievement of the
  targets set in ASGISA through the participation
  of industry

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Medium Term Expenditure Framework RSA bitumen
demand forecast
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Supply of bitumen in 2006
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Bitumen refining capacity
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Summary

• Sufficient inherent refinery capacity to meet
  demand
• Refineries need to
• Upgrade dispatching capacity to improve
  turnaround time of road tankers during peak
  demand
• Increase blending capacity to cope with increased
  long term demand
• Prime marketers need to
• More flexible wrt export orders
• Secondary producers need to
• increase their own bitumen storage capacity to
  cope with peak demand
• Road authorities need to
• Spread periodic road maintenance over the year to
  reduce peak demand on resources

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Conclusion

• The industry will be challenged to supply the raw
  materials skills in order to meet
  infrastructure needs
• Construction maintenance of roads are crucial
  to SA economic growth development
• Sabita is recognised as a credible organisation
  to promote infrastructural development