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VOLUME: 1
ISSUE: 6
Tank 54 Revisited
Special points of
interest:
From Bruce
and Scott
Tank 54
Competitions
Richie McMillan
Inside this issue:
Stores and Logistics
Office update
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In January this year the ISS
Industrial Rope Access team
(IRA) abseiled Tank 54 and
removed the lagging in
preparation for new lagging
and cladding . The old lagging was 80 mm thick and
had lifted in places. Water
was being captured behind
the lifted lagging and the
tank was developing rust.
The old lagging was removed successfully by the
IRA team and the next
phase was for the Refinery
to spray a special painted
lagging onto the tank. This
would not have been as
thick as the old lagging.
However, this system
proved to be unsuitable.
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Engineering
Update, Northland and Rugby
World Cup
Photos and
Competitions
So ISS was asked to submit
a price to scaffold the tank.
John Cooper, Eddy Klaassen
and the team saw this as an
opportunity to utilize the
system scaffolding that ISS
had on order from China.
Plans were set and experiments done and a system
was developed that would
achieve a free standing scaffolding around the tank.
cost effective price. This is a
first for ISS. The system scaffolding needed to be freestanding so the new lagging
and new sheet metal could be
continuously applied to the
tank. The scaffolding structure
would be over 100m in diameter and nine lifts high.
Congratulation to the scaffolding team of Brent Steadman, Fraser Brunton, George
Wilson, Dave Stewart, Kevin
Proctor and Ashley Wiltshier.
A dumby run was set up
using the new system to
confirm that it could be used
The Scaffolding will be up for
safely on tanks. This was
approximately four to five
done by building a circular
scaffolding. This proved very months.
promising, as the system
scaffolding has the ability to
lock into itself. A decision
was made to submit a very
Where in the world Is Richie?
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From Bruce
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and Scott, Eastern and Western BOP
HSE and Work 6
Practice Focus,
Richie McMillan is one of our
crane drivers that travels the
country driving other peoples
cranes. Some of the notable
projects he has worked on
this year are:
The Newmarket on ramp.
He was driving an 80 tonne
crawler crane working on
State Highway One.
Then he moved to Silo Park
on the waterfront in Auckland. He was driving a piling
rig and working around the
tides.
Richie is currently driving a
crawler crane for Downers in
Greymouth. It is a five month
culvert installation project.
He is working in the winter in
the snow in Greymouth.
Brrrrr. Hope there is heating
in that cab.
Richie started with ISS as a
rigger then moved on to be a
leading hand rigger before
finally finding his forte as the
crane driver driving our 20
tonne roughy crane and our
30 tonne truck mounted
crane.
From this he went on to drive
some of our customers cranes
before being hired out as a
crane driver. He is often away
from base so we don’t see him
much.
When he is not travelling the
country driving cranes you can
find him at the beach, in Coromandel, building his house and
kayak fishing with his lovely
partner (and Scott’s cousin)
Rachael.
Richie Driving his Crane on
the Otahuhu power station.
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Word On The Street
Stores and logistics
CONGRATULATIONS;
People who were nominated
for our staff recognition
award were:
Eddie Klaassen: Exceptional leadership. He is an
inspiration to his team.
He is our health and
safety champion in the
North. Eddie has excellent communication skills.
Ollie Shoesmith & Jed
Klaassen: Congratulations
to you both for passing Elementary Scaffolding. The
assessor was really impressed with their skill level.
Wayne Tuki: Goes the
extra mile. He has taken up
the mantel and is honing his
leadership skills. He is also
liaising with the clients and
getting the paperwork done.
Alan Rowan: Alan has
stepped up into the leading
hand role in Kawerau. He is
working closely with the
men organising the teams
and getting the jobs done
safely.
Until recently ISS has out
sourced the testing of all its
equipment. Equipment that
needs testing regularly are
things like rigging gear ie chain
blocks, lever hoists and slings.
We are also required to have
all electric equipment tested.
We welcome Cat Mangi to
our team as the Testing Technician. Cat comes to us from
Steel and Tube. He has a long
history testing and servicing
equipment in our industry.
We look forward to working
with Cat.
He will not only be servicing
our equipment but with the
addition of Cat to the team
we will be able to offer another service to our clients.
While he is still based in Hamilton, once the purpose built
testing unit has been completed ,he will be available to
offer on site inspections.
From the office
Temahara Wharakura:
Maha has a good work ethic.
He is a reliable team member of the Hamilton scaffolding crew. Congratulation on the birth of your
newest child Maha
Each of you will receive
scratchies.
Winner:
Alan Rowan
Will be receive an ISS
belt buckle.
Warren is slowly making headway in the clean up and organisation of the stores area. Having a place for everything and
everything in its place will enable Warren to turn gear
around faster. He would appreciate as much warning as
possible of pending jobs. If
anyone has any ideas how we
could develop a system that
would give more lead time for
equipment and gear to be sent
to site Warren would love to
hear from you.
Condolences to the old pie
truck and the old engineering
truck. They have finally been
retired. Rust has finally forced
this two old faithful trucks off
the road.
This brings us on to vehicle
maintenance. Vehicles need
regular care if we are going to
get the best out of them.
Weekly checks need to be
done. If this is being done
We would like to welcome
Kerryn Dunlop to the role
of Office Manager. She is
currently taking the mantel
from Annie who has held the
fort very successfully for over
two years.
Annie has helped ISS change
the way our office works. She
has worked alongside Olivia
and Karon to start the change
of our operating system to
Workbench. This was no easy
feat. She is now passing over
her knowledge to Kerryn who
will work with Karon and
Rachel to refine and further
implement this system. Olivia
also recently resigned to go
off and have another baby, we
enjoyed having Olivia back in
the office, and wish her and
her growing family well.
Kerryn comes to us from
Dairy Transport Logistics.
She was office manger and ran
a team of six staff.
Kerryn has a young son, Cole.
She brings a wealth of experience in office management
with her as she has worked
for such companies as Hawkins Construction and Dairy
Logistics who are owned by
Fonterra.
Clothing: We currently have
a good stock of clothing and I
am always interested in working with you all to develop
new lines, if you have any
suggestions of articles you
would like to see please get in
touch with Nicky via the office
and she will see what she can
Warren is not getting the
paper work. Please send it
through so Don and Warren
can ensure that WOFs and
Road users are kept up to
date.
Cat Mangi, our new Site
testing Technician.
do to accommodate these. I
have also got lots of beanies in
stock for those of you out there
with chilly heads, I am in the
process of getting some thin
beanies to go under your hard
hats, if you are interested in
ordering one of these please get
in touch with Nicky ASAP.
Our records are showing that
you are all using our server and
the computer very well. We are
very pleased with these results
and will continue to monitor
this. I would like to express my
thanks to you all for taking the
time to learn these systems and
get your heads around them, I
understand learning new processes can be very stressful. So
thanks very much. :)
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Engineering
The last 3-4 months have
been busy. Once again ISS
assisted Contact Energy Te
Rapa with its annual outage.
We had 17 staff on-site for
the outage. We were able to
supply fitters, welders, rigging
services and safety watch
personnel. ISS changed
another expansion joint. This
was the third one we had
done so far. The riggers
worked on the gas turbine
removing pumps and values.
Fitters removed the end of
the IP drum for inspections
and assisted with various
NDT activities for the duration
of the shut down.
The guys at Contact Energy
Otahuhu have been assisting
WORMALD to replace the
fire mains at the cooling
tower. Willie Tuituu one of
our ASME-IX welders, has
been replacing the stream
line on the auxiliary boiler.
Work continues to progress
at the Waikato Hospital. We
service five clients on site.
Kevin Hall is one of our welders who is a great ambassador for ISS securing extra
work where he can.
NORTHLAND system scaffolding. This will
be a new experience for some
John, Eddie and their band of of our guys. However, John is
merry men continue to work there keeping a watchful eye
steadily for our clients in the on proceedings. This is the
Northland area. The staff at first time that system has been
used in the Refinery. The
NZRC are pushing hard to
gain more qualifications this system is proving excellent
year. Well done guys. This for tank work. It is efficient
will give them the recognition and cost effective to erect.
they deserve for their skill
level. The staff there know
Recently Bruce, Scott and
that by upping their qualifica- Dave Sopp joined the team at
tions they can offer more to
NZRC to meet the Safety
the client. The North. The
team has almost completed
the external scaffold for Tank
54. The scaffolding will be
constructed using the new
Warriors. Buck Shelford and
Tawera Nikau are promoting
good values to encourage men
to take up the challenge of
leading and protecting them-
Rugby World Cup
If you get the opportunity
to watch any of the three
World Cup games to be
held at the Waikato Stadium aka Rugby Park take a
minute to look up at the
lighting. Leroy and his
crew have been working
on the light tower up-grade
in time for the Cup. They
have replaced all the lamps
on all four towers, cleaned
all the lenses, installed the
new light mounts made at
our engineering workshop,
fitted between 12-24 light
assemblies, run new cables
up the tower and dressed
the cables on to the cable
trays.
The team also assisted Waikato Electrical Services with
aiming the lights. They also
abseiled to weld new penetrations into the towers for
the cables. All this work
was completed at height.
During the three World
Cup games two ISS Industrial Rope Access crew
members will be on call
should access to the towers
be required.
So rest assured that when
the All Blacks score you
won’t miss a thing.
GO THE AB’s
The workshop is humming along with Gene and
his crew working alongside the rest of the company to offer our clients a
greater range of services.
The guys have ongoing
work for Siemens and are
busy working to get ISS
maintenance projects
completed. Gene recently went to Ohakune to
work on the telecommunications towers there. It
Scaffolding boys in Ohakune
was a good job involving
erecting a large scaffold for a
abseiling and welding work.
mural to be painted.
selves and their families. They
drew comparisons
between their sporting
and personal lives. It is
a great message by
excellent role models.
You can find the code
and a short story by
typing NZ Refining
Company Safety Warriors into your computer search engine.
Bruce accepting the NZRC Safety innovation award.
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Word On The Street
Photo Summary
Eddie’s boys up north on
the Tank 54 project.
Competition: 1
Winner: Brian Langdon with an ingenious letter.
ISS:
Attn:- Indestructible Superhuman Scott &
Inspirational Supermum (To All) Shani
Subject:I’m Supposibly Shovin-Off
after the Waihi Job.
There Is no truth in this rumour
In fact
I Strongly Support ISS
A company that has
From a distance a huge Scaffolding job for the boys.
Impeccable Safety Standards
Ingenious Staff Supervisors
And are the
Industry Supreme Suppliers
Of quality next to none
I Stand Strong
Brin
Your tee-shirt is on its way. Well done.
Competition: 2
This competition is still running. We know everyone has been
busy so we thought we would give you more time to get the artwork in. We have a lot of talent in the Company it is time you got
the pencils out and let your light shine. We are looking for a unique
Zero Harm logo pertaining to ISS. This logo will be displayed and
printed on all company documentation and clothing.
Things to consider when creating your logo are that it must pertain
to health and safety and compliment the industry you work in. All
entries must be received by the office by 3pm October 30th.
The prize is a $100.00 voucher to a restaurant in your area and
seeing your art work on all our company documentation and clothing. This is an individual competition. For terms and conditions
please see the flyer on your smoko room wall or contact the office
to have one sent through to you.
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From Scott and bruce
There are not many big projects on the go at he moment.
We have lots of little projects
that take a lot of time. This has
been the nature of construction for the last couple of
years. In the interim it is a
matter of knuckling down and
making the best of what we
have. Now is the time to upsell our services to get the
most out of every job. We
need to focus on the customers requirements, listen carefully to what the customers
want and deliver what is asked
of us with exceptional service.
This is our point of difference.
It is time to watch expenditure
and overheads. It is a time to
work smarter.
However the future is very
bright with many bigger projects coming on stream towards the end of 2011 and the
beginning of 2012. As a Company with all your help we have
been able to use the recession as a time to change some
of our focus and find other
niches such as Safety Watch
and the new system scaffolding that we have imported
from China.
Other parts of the company
such as HSE have refined
their processes. We have
used this time to install new
software, Workbench and
Vault ,which will help make
us competitive and easier
to work with. Both these
systems help us supply
information to our clients
quickly and accurately.
It is really good to see
many of our staff working
to gain higher level qualifications during this slower
period. This means that we
can offer a more skilled
workforce to our clients.
We acknowledge all the
teams hard work and look
forward providing more
services to our clients with a
professional work force.
Bruce being put through
his paces for his Level 4
Industrial Rope Access
Certificate.
Anaru Morrison, the supervisor for Kawerau, has been off
work due to serious illness.
He is not expected to return
any time soon. We would like
to send our good wishes to
Anaru from all the staff.
Barry Hoskin is filling in as
supervisor for the mean time.
folding on these sites to
ensure the standard of
workmanship remains high.
Well done.
The boys have been doing a
great job working well to pick
up the slack and pulling together while Anaru has been
off.
Alan Rowan has stepped up to
a leading hand on the SCA and
Carter Holt HarveyWood
Products and Pulp. He is organising the rigging and scaf-
ing up safety requirements
such as the guards and hand
rails.
Another interesting job was
moving the Macmahon’s
digger. The guys had to
disassemble it by removing
the counter-weights (15ton),
the bucket (6 ton) and the
dipper arm (7 ton). The dig-
The receptionist, with a voice
full of regret, said, "I'm sorry,
sir, but the engineer recently
died a slow, agonising death
out on a project site." The
contractor stated his condolences and hung up.
This pattern repeated itself
each hour throughout the
morning, until, at last, the
receptionist recognized the
contractor's voice, whereupon she said to him, "Sir,
why do you keep calling here
when you know I'm going to
say the engineer has recently
died a slow, agonising death
out on a project site?"
The contractor, exploding
with long-suppressed maniacal laughter, gasped, "Because
I love to hear you say it!"
Western bay of plenty
Things are busy as usual in
the Western Bay at the
moment. The team at the
Waihi Goldmine are steadily
working on their regular
maintenance projects in the
milling plant.
Remedial work has just
been complete on the jawcrusher. This involved tidy-
One morning a contractor
called an engineering firm and
asked to speak to an engineer
regarding a particular project.
About an hour later the same
contractor called back and
asked to speak to an engineer
regarding the same project.
Again, the receptionist gave
the contractor the bad news:
"I'm sorry, sir, but the engineer recently died a slow,
agonising death out on a project site." As before, the contractor mumbled his regrets
and hung up.
Eastern Bay Of Plenty
Kawerau is going to find things
a little quiet over the next few
months. The annual winter
shut at Fonterra is due to
finish mid August. Our numbers have peaked at 17 staff.
Since the intensity of the
boiler rebuild Kawerau guys
have returned to servicing
our clients in the area.
Joke
ger was taken over to the
pit side of the mine before being reassembled.
Paul, Heath and Wayne
have just completed their
forklift licenses. Well
done.
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TRAINING
Did you know that there are more options than just having
your rigging and scaffolding certificates.
New Zealand is screaming out for certified scaffolders and
riggers. Opportunity training and Tai Poutini Polytechnic have
various options that could suit you!!
Opportunity training offers the Straight 2 Work—
Scaffolding and Rigging programme. This programme is designed as a starting plateform for unskilled people who would
like to improve their potential to be employed. If you know
of any who would like to do this programme they can access it
through WINZ or Opportunity Training.
This program is a great starting point. It is designed to bring
your skills up to the minimum entry level that our industry
requires.
The training you will receive in this program is:
Employing fall arrest systems
Erecting scaffolding
Rigging and slinging loads & crane operations
Occupational health and safety
First aid
Site safety
Team work skills
Communication skills
If you would like more information on this program phone
0800-779-009.
If you would like to do your rigging and scaffolding ticket or
up-skill from the tickets you currently hold then you may be
more interested in the programs that Tai Poutini offer.
Tai Poutini Polytechnic offer courses that start at rigging
and scaffolding tickets right through to courses where you can
achieve a diploma in managing scaffolding operations.
You can do:
National Certificates in Scaffolding
Elementary
Intermediate
Advanced Scaffolding Strand
Suspended Scaffolding Strand
Certificate in Managing Scaffolding Operations
Diploma in Managing Scaffolding Operation.
HOW TO APPLY:
You can apply by phoning 0800-800-411 and request an application pack. Application forms can also be downloaded from
www.tpp.ac.nz.
Re-thinking your qualifications: Every industry has it history and culture. Rigging and scaffolding does generally follow
the motto that I have heard around for many years and that is
‘Go Hard or Go Home’. This means that the guys who
are successful in the industry tend to be hard working and hard
living.
However, the face of the industry has changed in so many
ways it is worth taking time to focus on two of these.
HSE: Scaffolders and riggers have spent many years upping
their HSE record. Long gone are the days when people could
come to work and take any form of risk. The industry has kept
abreast of changing requirements in this field and in some cases
has lead the way. The adaption of better HSE and industry
best practices has put a more professional light on the work of
riggers and scaffolders.
Many of you at the coalface of everyday work should take time
to reflect that the well built, secure scaffolds that you complete
everyday keep many other industries safe. The welders, engineers, painter, and other trades rely on the excellent standard
of your workmanship to do their jobs safely.
Riggers, whether they are mechanical or construction, are lifting
and placing heavy loads or climbing around at height. The skills
required to do your job places you in a position where others
are relying on you to get it right and to do it safely.
Qualifications: The industry has been working for many years
to up the qualifications standards of riggers and scaffolders.
This is to recognize the nature of the work you are asked to
undertake. The qualifications now reflect the level of responsibility that you take on when you go about your work.
It is worth noting that when you have completed your advanced scaffolding ticket you have a National Certificate Level 4.
Advanced rigging tickets are National Certificate Level 5. The
National Certificate level 4 is the same level that other trades
have to achieve to be qualified. These tickets are higher than
University Entrance which is Level 3. Not everyone’s pathway
is to go on to university but with the National Certificates skills
can be recognized.
However with the Diploma in Managing Scaffolding Operations
guys who want to go further into management have a pathway.
The Diploma in Managing Scaffolding Operations is a Level 6
certificate.
The National Certificates are the standards
needed for our industry
to be taken seriously
and anyone holding a
certificate is taking on
board a qualification that
reflects their commitment to those standards.
Finally having the qualifications helps employers recognize your standard of skill. So lets
Go Hard and continue
to get better qualified.
As you continued to
Brin’s new ISS T’Shirt we
made for him as winner.
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ISS HEAD OFFICE
P O Box 10-234, Te Rapa,
Hamilton
13 Bristol Pl, Te Rapa,
Hamilton
Ph: 0800 800 679
Fax: 07 850 1241
Email: [email protected]
Word On The Street
Health and Safety
improve in your knowledge, practices and skill
level our industry becomes more recognized for
its contribution within construction.
NORTHLAND BRANCH
17 Fraser St
Port Whangarei
Whangarei
Phone: 09 438 5320
Fax: 09 438 5324
E-mail: [email protected]
EASTERN B.O.P. OFFICE
5 Spencer Ave
Kawerau
Phone: 07 323 7112
Fax: 07 323 7712
E-mail: [email protected]
WESTERN B.O.P. OFFICE
c/o Waihi Gold Mine
Baxter Rd
R.D.1
Waihi
Phone: 07 863 9868
Fax: 07 8639868
E-mail: [email protected]
Congratulations to the ISS team at NZRC in
June the team was presented with Transfield
Worley Annual Contractor Health, Safety and
Environmental Award for significant improvements
in HSE performance.
The award was in recognition of the introduction
of the ISS Drug and Alcohol Policy and a number
of on site safety initiatives that the team had implemented.
These initiatives include scaffolding gates, use of
Jordan clips to help achieve 100% clip on while
erecting and dismantling scaffolding, ensuring the
structural integrity of pipe work prior to using it as
an anchor point and the use of abseiling to name
a few.
Well done to all involved, the award is now
proudly on display in our Hamilton office Reception and Eddy’s Office.
Training has also been progressing well , with assessments being carried out on site by the Tai
Poutini Polytechnic trainers for both scaffolding
ENGINEERING
13-15 Bristol Place
Te Rapa
Hamilton
Phone: 07 850 1240
Fax: 07 850 1241
Email [email protected]
and rigging.
The site has also just recently introduced a
safety debrief after a work package has
been completed.
Three questions are asked, What went
well? What didn’t go well? What am I still
puzzled about?
This gives all team members an opportunity
to not only raise issues but give positive
feedback on the good things that we do
everyday but often forget about. I look
forward to feedback from the guys on how
well this is going
The Confined Space Management team
continue to receive positive feedback from
sites that they work on.
Below are some comments we have recently received from Contact Energy at Te
Rapa.
ISS clean conditions monitoring and
documentation were very professional.
ISS ERT performed professionally
despite challenges found in the
evacuation trial
Confined spaces were very well
controlled by ISS
Good standard of safety watch—ISS
really took ownership.
And not to be out done our Riggers also
received this good feedback
ISS riggers performed exceptionally
well.
So well done to all involved with this outage.
HSE Officer– we welcome Lee Marjoribanks on in this newly established role.
Lee will be working closely with Dave to
provide HSE support to our Supervisors
and helping to run the Confined Space
Management team and grow this business.
Lee has been helping supervisors develop
JSA’s in our Vault database .
WORK PRACTICE FOCUS
Reporting of Incidents:
It is important that all incidents including near
misses are reported not only to our clients but
also to the ISS management team.
Often we find out that our staff have been involved in an incident at a site sometime after the
event and even when a project has finished.
It is a legal requirement for all individual to report
incidents to your employer . Remember ISS is
your employer. This means that both individuals
and Supervisor need to ensure that either an ISS
incident report or a copy of the clients incident
report is sent to our Hamilton Office . All incidents need to be reported by the end of the work-
ing shift and any Serious Harm or potentially Serious incidents need to be reported to Dave Sopp
immediately by phone (0274 649604). Leave a
message or send a text if you can’t get hold of
Dave.
If you have to see a Doctor or visit a medical centre then you must also send a copy of your ACC
45 or ACC18 paperwork to our Hamilton office.
Again there are legal requirements that must be
met.
THE REPORTING OF INCIDENTS ALLOWS US
TO INVESTIGATE AND ENSURE THAT WE
CAN BUT CORRECTIVE ACTIONS IN PLACE
TO PREVENT AN REOCCURRENCE.