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Peter Kinsey possesses the largest and the most detailed hazard assessment knowledge in the pipeline construction industry. This knowledge and experience is the backbone of the Mainline Health and Safety Hotline. It can be incorporated into your project by a Pipeliner in a format and language other Pipeliners can use.   For each phase of construction, The H & S Hotline utilizes long lists of historically reoccurring crew-specific accidents/injuries and equipment losses. This data is incorporated in a sequentially presented hazard recognition training program:


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The Orientation/Induction

1. Pre-Job Hazard Assessment Meetings/Checklists for each crew
2. Tool Box Talks
3. Job Hazard Analysis
4. Risk Assessments
5. Weekly Safety Meetings with rotating hazard identification lists
6. Weekly H & S verification & follow up inspections
7. Ongoing documented Site Inspections and Audits

Each stage provides the different levels of field and head office supervision with detailed documentation of due diligence. These levels of documentation combined, demonstrate indisputably how a corporate manager, in a head office even thousands of miles distant, has undertaken to identify hazards to his/her project employees with an overwhelming attention to detail. In this way literally hundreds of potential hazards specific to the terrain, season, weather, right of way conditions, crew, equipment, adjacent or crossing utilities, overhead and buried etc. are identified repeatedly to the workers. Each stage produces, as the project continues, an increasing paper trail of due diligence documentation.

The Orientation/Induction outlines specific potential accident/injuries common to any one of 25 or more different crews. It is the worker's first introduction to the project and work, and it forms the basis of the worker's first hazard identification training session.

The Pre-Job Hazard Assessment Meeting for each crew is led by the crew foreman or immediate field supervisor on the right of way, on the first day of work, after the initial orientation. It is a comprehensive checklist of additional hazards the worker will be exposed to around the specific equipment and specific tasks he/she will undertake on his/her crew.

Tool Box Talks are provided to each crew supervisor.  The subject matter rotates daily, re-emphasizing and identifying hazards specific to the equipment and tasks undertaken by the workers on each crew.

Job Hazard Analysis are documented crew discussions and reviews of any newly identified hazards and how the supervisor and worker’s on site will manage this risk to prevent accident or injury.  Recommended management practices for the majority of potential risks are to be found in the Documentation Index

Risk Assessments accompany the Method Statements for each phase of the work.   The use of specific equipment on each crew has a history of associated accidents.  This document outlines what actions to be taken to prevent reoccurrences of those accidents.

Weekly Safety Meetings are provided to each crew supervisor. The subject matter rotates weekly, again re-emphasizing and identifying hazards specific to the equipment and tasks undertaken by the workers on each crew. Similar to Tool Box talks but longer in duration allowing more extensive worker input and suggestions. 

Ongoing Site Inspections are checklists of potential hazards on each crew.  The H & S inspector verifies that the workers are following the instructions given them at the orientation, pre-job hazard assessment and weekly safety meetings and checks off each item as a yes or no.

H & S verification ROW Inspections are checklists verifying that all the elements of the H & S Plan have been implemented and maintained. Follow up inspections assure and document closure to any deficiencies documented in daily and weekly H & S field reports.
Lack of this type of documented and detailed examination of each phase of construction with respect to potential injury or loss is where most other generic corporate safety manuals and training programs fail. Please review the Document Index