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GE Vernova – South Africa
ARMS Ltd has previously worked closely with Alstom Power during the construction of the Kusile Power Station near Witbank, South Africa. This was a large project consisting of 6 generating units with an eventual capacity of 800 MW each bringing the total installed capacity of 4,800 MW. This was a major undertaking and ARMS Ltd were instrumental in assisting the project to create and maintain a very strong safety culture.
Now as an operational plant and under the O&M of GE Vernova we are proud to say were asked by the Regional Leader for Steam Power to return to help consolidate and build on the safety culture within the operational team. We developed a bespoke approach around our ‘6 key attitudes to risk’ and rolled this programme out during September and early October 2024. The results speak for themselves:
The average ‘positive attitude shift’ across all project attendees was a satisfying: 37%
Programme feedback rated the “Usefulness of the Workshops” an average: – 99% (4.95/5)
Kaefer UK & Ireland
Kaefer (UK & Ireland) is a leading organisation in the industrial services industry. The organisation has grown significantly over the years, expanding through strategic acquisitions and joint ventures.
Today, Kaefer (UK & Ireland) offer a wide range of industrial services including scaffolding, insulation, and surface protection, dedicated to providing their clients with reliable and high-quality services. These services are provided across two business units, ‘Nuclear and Defence’ and ‘Industrial and Energy’.
ARMS Ltd, having worked with the business leadership at Group level in Germany in the past have been asked to focus on the UK & Ireland business to appraise the current safety culture across these two business units. Once completed in Q4 we aim to provide a plan for positively shaping the future safety culture having listened carefully to what is being said from Board level to the operational staff.
ACWA Power – QIPP Success!
The initial roll-out of ACWA Power’s Safety Culture Programme at QIPP, an operational Power Plant in the East of Saudi Arabia has been successfully completed.
This is the first and most important step that ACWA Power are taking in shaping a strong, positive safety culture for the future. The organisation is tackling six key attitudes to help everyone understand how easily we can fall into the trap of unnecessary risk taking. These attitudes are described as follows:
- Necessary Rule breaking – “I sometimes need to break the rules to get the job done”
- Sense of control – “With the correct training I would not take risks”
- Complacency -“If I do something regularly it is easier to see the risks”
- Lack of influence – “Human error leads to most accidents”
- Poor hazard perception – “I only take risks when I think it is not dangerous”
- Fatalism – “Sometimes accidents just happen”
Following the roll-out at QIPP this is what the management line achieved and had to say;
Site Senior Leaders
“Usefulness of the Workshop” – 90% (4.5/5) average rating
‘Attitude shift’: 53% average positive attitude shift.
Site Middle Managers
“Usefulness of the Workshop” – 98% (4.9/5) average rating
‘Attitude shift’: 65% average positive attitude shift.
Frontline Leaders
“Usefulness of the Workshop” – 86% (4.3/5) average rating
‘Attitude shift’: 56% average positive attitude shift.
With such a dramatic shift in safety attitudes it really does demonstrate how easily, as intelligent human beings, we can be fooled into thinking quite negatively about such important issues needed to keep ourselves and others safe. With the right approach however it is reassuring to note that it is a simple process to help people adjust their attitudes that may have been decades in the making!
Qurayyah IPP Power Project, Saudi Arabia
Paul and Simon of ARMS Ltd supporting Omar Alhadad, Head of Corporate HSSE Training in the roll-out of ACWA Power’s Safety Culture Programme. This first programme is taking place over the next two weeks in the East of Saudi Arabia at the Hajr Power Plant in Qurayyah. A 3,927MW gas fired power plant. ARMS Ltd is extremely proud to have been chosen to partner with ACWA Power on this crucial programme as it seeks to achieve safety excellence through directly tackling attitudes and behaviours across the global business.
ACWA Power choose ARMS Ltd
ARMS Ltd is proud to announce that it has been chosen by ACWA Power to assist this exciting organisation in the development of its safety culture. ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation and desalinated water production plants with a presence in 12 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Central and South-East Asia. It is 50% owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund.
Our initial work will involved two current projects, both located in Saudi Arabia. Once these have been successfully implemented we will look to roll out similar safety culture development programmes across the global organisation.
Binnies part of the RSK Group
ARMS Ltd is delighted to be working closely with Binnies to help bring their ENGAGED business values to life.
On the 7th September we designed and ran a conference near Gatwick that brought the company wide champions for ENGAGED together in one room for what has been described by many who attended as their “best day at work ever !”. Such a compliment and Paul, Andrew and Clare from ARMS who can be seen in action below:
Safer@Severfield – Programme Launch
ARMS Ltd is proud to announce that after working with Severfield Plc since 2015 they have selected us as their partner to work with them on their ‘Safer@Severfield’ programme. The programme launch is this month and starts in Northern Ireland. We’re excited to be assisting Severfield in further developing their excellent safety culture.
Hitachi Energy HVDC partner with ARMS Ltd
After much planning and development ARMS Ltd are pleased to report that we have now started to work with Hitachi Energy HVDC on their business culture improvement plan as they start to significantly grow as an organisation. Four members of the ARMS Ltd team flew to Sweden at the start of April to deliver a highly successful workshop as part of a Hitachi HVDC conference. Here you can see Andrew, Clare and Sarah working the room and if you look carefully you can see Paul projected onto the background !
Kloeckner Metals UK
ARMS Ltd are delighted to partner with Kloeckner Metals UK. Working together to grow a strong and successful health and safety culture. We’re now working with senior management through to the shop floor in transforming attitudes and behaviours around safety critical behaviours.