1. Working Safely in Global Construction
Tom Will
Rohm and Haas Company

2. No one person or single party can create a safe jobsite
No one person or single party can create a safe jobsite. It requires a collaborative effort with the owner and contractors working together from the top of their respective organizations down to, and most importantly with, the hourly workers.

3. Case Study: Taloja, India
Adhesives, sealants, emulsions plant
3.6 million work-hours
Two lost time incidents, two recordable injuries
Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) Award
President’s Health-Safety-Environmental Award (Jacobs)
Joseph J. Jacobs Master Builder Award
On time, on budget project that met business goals with outstanding safety results

4. Project Execution Strategy
Joint partnership by:
Owner:
Rohm and Haas
EPCM Contractor/Alliance Partner:
Jacobs H&G
Numerous subcontractors

5. Safety Goals Zero injuries
Everyone goes home in the same condition they went to work
World-class safety program
Proactive safety tools
Support worker needs (on and off the job)

6. Work Force Safe workers shown: 600 Project peak: 1,300
Taloja, India
Safe workers shown: 600
Project peak: 1,300
Total employees indoctrinated: 5,200
Safe workers shown: 600
Project peak: 1,300
Total employees indoctrinated: 5,200

7. Safety Beliefs You can work safely anywhere ― all of the time.
Owner, contractor, and subcontractors working together make it happen.
It all starts at the top.
Safety management culture and systems drive results.
Each and every individual must contribute.
Injuries are produced by “at-risk behavior” that can be changed.
Changing behaviors requires systems, resources, commitment, and hard work.

8. What Were the Keys to Safety Performance?
Application of Industry (CII) Best Safety Practices
“Owner’s Role in Safety” research (CII Project Team 190)
Rohm and Haas/ Jacobs Alliance Best Safety Practices
Details in
Implementation Session

9. Tie-off / Fall Protection
Do Not Worry; If I Lose Balance, My Harness Would Save Me!
Use Protective Equipment Properly. Safety Harness Lanyard To Be Hooked On Strong And Rigid Objects

10. Safety Statistics Category U.S. India 9 Million 100 Million 1,800
Construction workers
9 Million
100 Million
Injuries per day
1,800
50,000
Construction deaths per day 5
150
Construction deaths per year
1,250
40,000

11. Comparison to Similar Gulf Coast Project
Category
Gulf Coast
Typical CII Equivalent
Taloja, India
Total Installed Cost (TIC)
$50MM
< $20MM
Work-Hours
800,000
3,600,000
Total Recordable Injuries 4
Lost Time Incidents (LTI) 1 2
Recordable Incident Rate (RIR)
1.0
0.2
CII Industrial RIR
1.0 – 1.1
U.S. Industrial RIR
5.0 – 7.0

12. Challenges & Risks: Taloja, India
No real safety culture or legislation.
Many owners and contractors don’t support safety.
High manual labor content and worker density.
Work force: poor, unskilled, migrant.
Civil work during monsoon season.
Several distinct languages.
Minimal use of construction equipment.

13. Key Program Elements
Management commitment, involvement, accountability
World-class health-safety-environmental program
One common safety team
New employee orientation and training
Medical facilities — on and off site
Pre-project planning
Safety observations system and audits
Recognition/reward and disciplinary system
Incident investigation and feedback/learnings

14. Professional Safety Staffing
Rohm and Haas 2
Jacobs 4
Safety specialty sub 5
Contractors 12
Total 23
Additional support and auditing from management at Rohm and Haas and Jacobs.

15. Why It Worked Management support and corporate alignment.
The core project team and Jacobs’ local presence.
Corporate alignment (Rohm and Haas/Jacobs).
“Walked the talk.”
Organized, staffed project with safety as key success factor.
Made local practices safe, didn’t impose the unfamiliar.
Supervisors were key and we won their hearts and minds.
Work force felt that management cared about safety.

16. Summary of Injuries Three million, six hundred thousand work-hours:
ONE industrial injury
Four recordable injuries
- Two lost time incidents
- Two recordables
- One was “slip and fall” resulting in laceration (only true industrial accident)
Forty-four first-aid cases

17. Frequently Asked Questions
How did you deal with poor contractor safety culture?
Selection process, training, zero tolerance.

18. Frequently Asked Questions
Only one industrial injury?
Do people not report injuries at the site?
Not normal in India.
Site nurse improved reporting.
Site procedures mandated reporting.

19. Frequently Asked Questions
Why 660 percent turnover?
Migrant farm workers, contract agency workers, paid daily with no retention incentive, zero tolerance to at-risk safety behavior.

20. Safety Management Beliefs and Principles
All safety incidents are preventable.
All safety incidents are caused by at-risk behavior.
All behaviors can be changed.
“If you’re not confronting at-risk behavior, you’re reinforcing it.”
Leadership is required to institute change and improve safety.
Attainment of zero injuries is possible.

21. For “Long” Loads Use Double Slings!
Rigging
For “Long” Loads Use Double Slings!

22. Conclusions Success Factors
True and highly visible management commitment.
Local jobsite commitment (walk the talk).
Key contractor culture and commitment.
Implementation of a solid, detailed safety plan utilizing CII Best Practices.
Follow-through with elements of the plan.
Winning hearts and minds of supervisors, making believers out of them.
Above all, uncompromising intolerance to “at-risk behaviors.”

23. The Bottom Line
“You will achieve the level of safety that you demonstrate you want to achieve.”

24. Implementation Session
Working Safely in Global Construction
Moderator:
Randy Arrington, Jacobs
Panelists:
A. L. Benny, Construction Manager (Jacobs)
Geoff Bell, Project Manager (Rohm and Haas)
Tom Will, Capital Manager (Rohm and Haas)
Georgia B
3:15-4:15 pm and 4:30-5:30 pm