Toll Today March 2011 - TOLL Group

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Executives visit the Barrow Island Team
The Toll Energy Barrow Island Supply Base was visited
by MD, Paul Little ao and CFO, Brian Kruger.
As part of a visit to a number of Toll Global Resources
businesses in Western Australia and the Northern Territory,
the stopover at the Barrow Island site provided the opportunity
to see the diverse work that Toll performs in some of the
most interesting locations in Australia.
Paul and Brian were shown around the site and given a full
safety induction, including an overview of the Toll Energy Safe
and Incident Free (SaIF) philosophy which is underpinned
by the idea of ‘Every Person – Safe – Everyday’.
The past six months have seen some big changes
in the Barrow Island Supply Base. The organisation
has doubled in size to over 100 people and there has
been some new equipment delivered to match the size
of the project.
It has been a really busy period for the Barrow Island Supply
Base, but the most pleasing aspect of all is that growth has
been achieved with a strong focus on safety. Both the Toll
Energy and Tox Free teams have reached and surpassed
the key milestone of 365 days lost time injury free. This has
been a fantastic effort in our remote and challenging
environment. The Supply Base has worked hard to implement
the customer’s incident and injury free culture (IIF) and it is
great to see that difficult work can be done safely.
The equipment available to the Supply Base team is also
changing. The Favelle Tower Crane is the latest addition to
Supply Base landscape. Supplied by Marr Contracting this
heavy lift crane is the largest capacity tower crane currently
in operation in the world with a standard lift capacity
of 330 tonnes at about 15m radius, and will lift 100 tonnes
to 45m radius with around 130m of hook height and no
support ties. It is an amazing piece of equipment and unlike
conventional crawler cranes or truck cranes the M2480D is
fully rated to operate in wind speeds up to 20m per second,
which is more than double that of the crawler cranes and
just what you sometimes need on Barrow Island.
The second equipment change has been the transition from
single trailer operations to road train operations. A great
deal of planning went into this transition to make sure that
all aspects of compliance were considered and the safety
of other road users and the environment were maintained.
They commended the staff for getting behind the philosophy
and discussed how it was clear that activities and tasks
were well planned and conducted with SaIF in mind. They
both agreed that this would place the Supply Base in a
good position to conduct more complex activities in the
near future.
Paul was interested in what employment opportunities the
Supply Base had provided for existing Toll staff, and was
happy to learn that the project had given existing Toll staff
new and exciting challenges with some 28 staff having
transitioned from existing Toll businesses. n
Toll Energy Barrow Island
Supply Base Keeps on Supplying
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The Supply Base team undertook a ‘change management’
process that reviewed procedures and job hazard analysis,
driver qualifications, equipment suitability, work and operating
areas and the impact on other road users.
The equipment has come on to the scene without incident
and has made a measurable improvement to the distribution
capability of the Supply Base and the overall productivity
of transport team.
The past six months have been very challenging. However
by utilising Toll Safe and Incident Free as a basis for
undertaking safe operations, the team is well positioned
to face the challenges of the next six months which
include the cyclone season and the hot summer weather.
These additions to the Supply Base equipment show
Toll Energy moving further ahead in providing higher quality
and efficient service to the Gorgon Project, and allow
Toll Energy to continuously remain competitive in the ever
evolving oil and gas sector. n
Global Resources
2 L-R: Michael
Freeman, Paul
Marshall, Paul
Little AO, and
Andrew Buthcer.
3 The Favelle
Tower Crane
– the world’s largest
capacity tower crane.
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