A plant's safety net extends beyond its staff to all contractors and site visitors. Any injury is a black eye. This means contractors must have their safety programs approved by plant management before they can do any work. Violations will stop jobs for a sit down and review of the offenses. Serious violations will get a contractor kicked offsite. This doesn't happen often but it does happen. So, it was not surprising that the first presentation by Siemens at the 501D5-D5A Users' 2014 annual conference, would review the field-service organization's enviable service record and stress its continual improvement in critical areas such as JHA, proactive safety stand-downs, and PPE. more
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