RasGas Shorebase Team Celebrates 16 Years Without Lost Time Incident

Doha, March 31 (QNA) -The Shorebase Offshore Support team of the Offshore Asset Department of RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) recently celebrated yet another milestone in safety to mark the completion of 16 years without a Lost Time Incident and 12 years without a Recordable Incident. Congratulating the Offshore Asset team at Shorebase for its exceptional safety achievement, Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, RasGas Chief Executive Officer said that the achievement is the result of giving primary importance to safety in all our work. "At RasGas, safety is more than just part of the job; rather it is a culture and hallmark of all employees. To continue for 16 years without an LTI, echoes RasGas commitment to deploy the best safety practices and enforce safe working behaviour as a core element of the companys success in the LNG industry," he said, addressing a special ceremony held at Al Waha Club, Al Khor to mark the occasion. "All milestones are reminders of our responsibility to maintain the achievement; particularly when it is in safety, the responsibility becomes further significant as maintaining safety standards is not an easy task. In fact, it is more difficult to maintain the success than achieving it," said Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi, Chief Operations Officer of RasGas. "Even a small percentage of safety precaution from the side of each individual will count much bigger in the overall perspective," he pointed out. "Since the beginning of Shorebase operations 16 years ago, there has not been a single lost time incident, and it has been 12 years since the last recordable incident at Shorebase. During these 16 years, the team has supported the entire company offshore facilities such as the Platforms and Rigs and mobilized thousands of barrels of oil field chemicals, over a 1,000 miles of casing, wellheads, and countless other items," said Al Muhannadi. He said the achievement was the result of a strong teamwork and a commitment to safety by all members of the team, regardless of positions. "This would not have materialized without the daily efforts of each and every member of the Operations Support team," he said. Comparing the achievements of the Shorebase Operations team with injury rates incurred in the warehousing and transportation industry, Brett Doherty, Chief Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Officer of RasGas remarked that intuitively one would expect more injuries to occur in the warehouses, based on industry data as opposed to the stellar record achieved by this organization. "This has only been possible through a combination of exceptional safety culture and work principles," said Doherty.(QNA)