Engaging middle management, supervision and the workers in implementing an effective safety management program can be challenging.
This paper provides an overview of how sports were used to establish effective accountability processes on Bechtel's Gladstone Liquefied Natural) Gas Project, GLNG t on Curtis Island, Gladstone, Australia. Initially a Safety League Program was developed to improve middle management ownership and engagement of fundamental aspects of the safety program by correlating sports terminology and concepts to aspects of existing safety and health processes.
Also, the program's design encouraged employees, supervisors, support staff and subcontractors to increase their engagement and ownership of safety processes.
The Safety League Program is an ongoing initiative at the GLNG Project Plant. The program was first implemented in March 2013, and has gone through several changes. Initially the focus was on the middle managers and although this proved to be effective it became apparent that the program had to also capture the performance of the front line leadership, e.g. supervisors and leading hands who were executing the work.
The Gladstone LNG Facility is the downstream component of the wider GLNG Project and will comprise a two-train liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and marine export facility with associated utilities and support infrastructure. The facility will meter, treat, and liquefy a coal seam gas feedstock supplied via an approximately 420 kilometer gas transmission pipeline from upstream production assets in Queensland's Bowen and Surat Basins.
The facility, located on Curtis Island, Gladstone, Australia will have a nominal capacity of 7.82 million metric tonnes a year of LNG. See Exhibits 1–3 Bechtel is the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) Contractor delivering the design, construction, commissioning and start-up of the facility.
The Safety League Program was introduced during the construction phase of the project. At the program's inception the workforce comprised approximately 2500 direct hire, 400 non manuals and 800 subcontractor personnel. Significant system components and modules, for the project are constructed at an off-shore facility and transported to the project site. The site team provides foundation preparation, transport and placement of the modules including connections. Extensive greenfield construction work for non-modular systems structures is also performed. See Exhibits 4–9 for photographs of a module and an overview of the project.
