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Latest HSE Statistics YTD 15 June
 
2013
2014
Life Saving Rules Violations YTD 15 June
Journey Management
37
Latest Class A/B Violations YTD 15 June
Class A
99
Class B
1673
HSE TIP
 
Use the Accredited scaffold training companies in Oman and ensure your staff have the competence to deliver!
 
         
 

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The launch of the Life Saving Rules in 2009, which incorporate rules on working near open edges and fall protection equipment, further underlines the commitment to achieve improved working conditions.

PDO has now begun to witness a step change in the standards of scaffolding and other working-at-height activities. This change, as the delivery dates suggest, has not been easy.  PDO has supported safe scaffold erection and inspection training for a long period of time. However, contractors were unable to meet expectations of the challenging accredited training requirements

  
         
 

What You Need to Know

  
   
 
Road to delivery:

It has been a long road to delivery and we need to continue the journey:

August 2000 – first guidance GU363 issued on scaffolding

July 2002 – first issue of SP1257 scaffolding and working at heights

January 2011 – re-write of SP1257 and GU363
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ISSUE 3

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   16 JUNE 2014
             
 

Way Forward

We are working with PDO’s In-Country Value (ICV) team to support current Oman-based scaffolding manufacturers and to further assist establish others. We are supporting scaffold hire, and other working-at-height equipment providers. More importantly, we are assisting in the development of Omani scaffolding workers. Scaffolding is now an ICV target for 2014/15 with the plan to provide about 400 jobs for working- at-height activities. This includes scaffolding workers as well as those for some other areas of WAH activities, such as operators for Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs). We are also working closely with our ICV oil and gas partners with the possibility of agreeing the new standard across the Oman oil and gas industry.

 

  

The PDO specification also promotes other working at height activities such as using rope access (rope climbing). Major projects work will call for different types of working at height methods. In all cases it will present other stimulating work opportunities for national staff and expatriates alike.

Overall, we have waited a long time to get to where we are today. We are confident that we have provided the tools, the training opportunities and the drive to enable even better working-at-height standards.

 

  

 

  

     
       
     

For more information or back issues, please access www.pdo.co.om/hseforcontractors or email Nasra Maamery (MSE/51)