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HEALTH & SAFETY

The Big 6 changes to HSE Supervision Services

Drive HSE standards
1 Overhaul the HSE 2 through our leaders
supervision documentation
The entire structure of our HSE All K&A project supervision
supervision documents has directors are accountable
been restructured, updated and and asked to ‘get stuck in’,
enhanced. We train our HSE understand their project
staff and PMs on what they HSE standards and walk the
have to do and when it should talk. They have to monitor
be done. In particular, our progress and have now started
HSE staff have to compile the to conduct a monthly Senior
following and share with the Management Safety Tour which
PMCs and clients as necessary: demonstrates to the site teams,
our client and the contractor
a. A project risk assessment to
identify the significant fatal that we mean business.
hazards (focus on the big stuff
not the trivial)
b. An HSE plan in line with our
contract deliverables and Ensure all the K&A HSE staff
client expectations 3 are competent
c. Standard HSE supervision All K&A HSE staff must meet
KPIs such as number of a specific competency criteria
inspections per month,
number of audits per month which includes the NEBOSH
d. Complete a monthly ‘Pro- General Certificate and
Active HSE Monitoring successfully pass our written
Programme’ that defines: technical assessment. The
- When HSE inspections will assessment gives us a good
be carried out and where indicator of the hazard spotting
- When HSE topic audits will skills and dealing with difficult
be carried out situations. This is also rolled
- Delivery of HSE training down to our contactors HSE
sessions staff to ensure right skills are
- Completion of Senior deployed to each level of
Management Safety Tours our projects.

Success The best things come in threes

stories K&A has at least three reasons to

be cheerful after landing the Golden
Helmet Award for excellence in Health,
Safety, and Environmental (HSE)
awareness for a third time.
We were presented with the award
K&A wins for September 2018 from client Emaar
third Golden and project management consultant
Helmet Award Holfords for our HSE practices on
for exceptional the Opera Grand Residence, which is HSE teams for their alertness, attention
Health, Safety, and part of the Emaar Boulevard Towers and cooperation.”
Environmental Program, Downturn Burj Khalifa, Dubai. We have been the design and
awareness. Luai Khader, Senior Project Manager supervision consultant since 2016
on Opera Grand Residence, said: and currently have approximately 24
“This award shows that proper staff deployed on the project, which
communication and cohesiveness is being constructed by Al Ghandi &
amongst all the team members is Consolidated Contractors International
integral to any successful project. This Company and has almost reached the
commendation goes out to the site and halfway stage.