Abstract
Building an effective team is never easy. Imagine doing it in five different places that have variety of cultures. Ichthys Project has four modular fabrication yards within Asia region that supports the construction of the LNG plant in Darwin, Australia.
Using a ‘One Team’ for ‘One Goal’ approach, by supporting respectful communications, risk management and problem solving with each other and our counterparts, we achieved relationships which are based on ‘active mutual support’.
The Senior Leadership team constantly reinvigorate the ‘Commitment to Deliver’ with actions that require mitigation measures at all sites. The cooperation of each individual to work successfully in implementing these were requested and expected to be delivered as we aim to achieve our objectives.
In nurturing and cultivating the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) philosophy, we start by ensuring our site induction, which highlights the personal experience of our IIF safety culture, is world-class in content and delivery.
Our relentless efforts in promoting the IIF culture across the international waters had seen us record over 145 Million Man-hours without any fatality while keeping our Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) at 1.04 which is well below the international average rate of 3.14.
This is achieved through our focus on key challenges that see us managing expectations. Clear communication with our clients, subcontractors and each other, have led to a better understanding in achieving our outcomes. We also continue to break down barriers where they exist, by strengthening relationships across vertical flows of people, process and knowledge.
The Environmental aspects associated with the seasonal weather that we deal with in Darwin and overseas, made it all more important for us to stay on track in keeping our people safe and working right first time.
We believe by building on our strengths and our initiatives such as Right First Time (RFT) coupled with the HSES and IIF programs keep our environment, assets and people safe; and the comprehensive training programs which we offer would create a more vigilant workforce that would instil safety as a value while applying the correct Project knowledge and skills when performing tasks.
Ichthys Project is ranked among the most significant oil and gas projects in the world and an example of how challenges coming from the different countries’ policies, different nationalities and cultures including coping with the harsh weathers of the five different locations could be overcome by a united will of each person involved in building a culture of prevention as One Team.