Celebrating safety, efficiency and innovation

Divisional Brief
Al Reid - Executive General Manager

I was delighted to present our 53^rd Teamwork Baton to the MMNW Hawser Rail upgrade team.

Working with one of our key long-term customers, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, the team identified there was a way to improve the safety and efficiency of their mooring activities. Marine work comes with an additional set of challenges, and the existing low-level hawser rails presented a fall hazard to operational personnel during mooring activities. Our team demonstrated outstanding teamwork, working together and with our customer to identify the most effective sea states and weather windows to help reduce impact on the overall schedule.

They successfully completed five dolphins during a two-week outage with 120 personnel on site and approximately 15,500 hours worked.

The team worked collaboratively with Rio Tinto and developed solutions that enabled the work to be undertaken safely and more efficiently. One of these solutions allowed for a reduction in working from heights requirements, also having a positive effect on the project schedule.

We have previously highlighted the exceptional safety initiatives on this project – read more here.

The recognition both from our customer and from the Monadelphous business is a testament to the teamwork and safety values the Hawser Rail team embodied, while consistently demonstrating commitment to our ethos ‘The Safe Way is the Only Way’.

Please join me in congratulating the project delivery team, with a special mention to Project Lead Ben Curnick, and Construction Manager Nathan Gough (who has also recently celebrated his 10-year Monoversary with us).