Safety Training Project 2021

February 2021

Safety Training Project 2021

EGCO Power Plants and Operations are regularly organize the training and review the courses for safety training to ensure the proper work and in line with the relevant standards, laws and regulations. This is to ensure that employees are knowledgeable and ready to work in order to reduce the risk of hazards and minimize the potential damage.

Below are the examples of safety training from EGCO Operations, EGCO Engineering & Service Co., Ltd (ESCO).

Overhead Crane Operator, Controller and Signaler Refresher Training

Description of the Program & Program Objectives	Business Benefits	Percentage of FTEs Participating in the Program
To develop employees’ awareness of hazards caused by improper crane operation, improper lifting and load capacity of the lift as well as the impacts on organizations to elevate of safety preventive awareness. To gain knowledge on related laws and regulations for Overhead Crane activities including Ministerial Regulations Determining Standards for Administration and Management of Occupational Safety, Health and Working Environment Regarding Machinery, Cranes and Boilers, B.E. 2021. The training is also designed to meet the requirements set forth in the mentioned Ministerial Regulations to allow the operation of machinery, Cranes and Boilers to be carried out under safety and standardization. To prepare employee to work on an operation which require different crane types from a normal work	Avoiding damages on equipment of approximate 90 million baht 27 employees from ESCO received ESCO Certificate of Crane Operation Reducing the risk and loss of life from accidents due to hazards caused by improper work	Proportion to total employees (Maintenance Division): 20.79%

Participants:

ESCO employees: 27 persons (from the maintenance division)

Training Approach:

Lecturing sessions: Related laws and regulations for Overhead Crane activities including Ministerial Regulations Determining Standards for Administration and Management of Occupational Safety, Health and Working Environment Regarding Machinery, Cranes and Boilers, B.E. 2021.
Workshop: Group activities, case studies of crane accidents and their impacts as well as analyzing investigation results of accidents for preventive planning.
Operation safety for activities that require different crane types from a normal operation.

Certificate of Overhead Crane Operation:

Confined Space Working Refresher Training

Description of the Program & Program Objectives	Business Benefits	Percentage of FTEs Participating in the Program
To develop employees’ awareness of hazards caused by improper safety preparation in confined space operation and the impacts on lives and the organization to elevate safety preventive awareness. To update on the legal requirements and best practices during work in confined spaces. Be familiar use of personal protective equipment (PPE), communication systems and emergency procedures during work in confined spaces.	Preventing incidents for working in confined space. As the result, LTIFR in 2021 is zero Reducing high risks of explosion, heating or fire or asphyxiation due to the release of toxic fumes by following best practices during operations.	Proportion to total employees (Maintenance Division and Operation Division): 39.74%

Participants:

ESCO employees: 25 persons (from the maintenance division and the operation division)

Training Approach:

Lecturing sessions and in-house activities
1. Related laws for working in confined spaces
2. Type of confined space
3. Hazard identification and assessment, and site conditions assessment
4. Preparation for working in confined spaces
5. Safety operation methods in confined spaces
6. The use of personal protective equipment, rescue devices in confined space
7. Process to obtain/withdraw a permit for working in confined spaces
8. Safety power cut-off principle
9. Roles and responsibilities of the project approver, supervisor, and operator in confined space

Certificate of Overhead Crane Operation:

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