Safety Personnel

One of the reasons that CW Allied is such a successful organization is that our Safety and Project Managers are experienced and highly trained. Our managers appropriately guide, mentor and manage our crews to assure the functional productivity of our workforce.

There are often an overwhelming number of safety attendants on large projects with each contractor supplying their own safety personnel.

Whether the requirement is Hole Watch/Fire Watch, Fresh Air and Bottle Watch, or Hot-Work Monitor, Our Safety Technicians are better-trained, more reliable, and mobile.

CW Allied provides attendants who are cross-trained in fire-watch, confined space attendant, and labor. This allows our Personnel to be more versatile and mobile. They can be deployed immediately to any contractor or project that needs safety attendants. Each of our attendants receives extensive pre-training, behavioral training, on-the-job training and site specific training. We provide the consistency, versatility and mobility necessary to reduce loss. Our attendants perform the same tasks consistently over and over. This repetition of tasks results in safety fluency.

Cross-Trained Laborers Working In Safety-Sensitive Environments

Most of our customer’s projects involve the mobilization and demobilization of equipment, tools/personal protective equipment and other devices. CW Allied attendant/laborers are invaluable as a labor source during these stages of a project. They are also trained to work with other laborers to ensure that the job is finished and that housekeeping is completed.

One of the most inherently dangerous jobs in the petrochemical industry involves work within confined spaces. During a turnaround or plant outage the most visibly dramatic work receives the most attention, while confined space work often goes unmonitored. Typically, a confined space is checked at the beginning of a shift when little or no work is being performed. Monitoring inside the space is periodic except for the mechanical supervisor and workers. It usually isn’t until the end of the work scope that operations and technical inspectors enter to “sign off” on the work performed.

CW Allied has the Confined Space Specialists and Rescue Personnel to focus on the safety of those working in confined spaces.

Whether a high-angle or a low-angle application, our safety specialists rely upon experience and knowledge to verify that all requirements on the confined space entry permit and safe work practices are being met. This is the minimum requirement allowed. Our specialists go even further and may take corrective actions or make recommendations to assure a safe work environment within the space. All information is then compiled in audit form and passed to subsequent shifts and to those working in same conditions elsewhere on the site.

Special workplace circumstances may require the highly-specialized safety training invloved with trench rescue and/or swift water rescue. CW Allied has the experience and highly-qualified safety personnel to handle these applications.

Occasionally HAZWOPER trained safety personnel (based on the 29 CFR 1910.120 definitions) is required. CW Allied provides trained and experienced laborers to perform such tasks as:

• Clean up operations at uncontrolled waste sites
• Clean-up operations at RCRA sites
• Hazardous waste operations at treatment, storage and disposal sites, green jobs
• Emergency response operational needs

The emergency medical personnel we provide include Emergency Medical Technicians and Medical First Responders. CW Allied fully supports our client’s efforts to provide quality initial emergency treatment along with the following:

• Follow-up Treatment (if needed)
• Documentation and Injury Tracking
• Proper Reporting and Management Notification
• Assistance in Medical Case Management

Because of the volume of work permits that must be generated during a workplace shutdown, the issuance of permits can become bottle-necked and slow work down. The permitting “overload” can also affect the safety of a project. CW Allied recognizes this problem and provides Permit Specialists to assist with facilitating the permitting procedure.

We help your permit departments when they need help the most.

Our Permit Specialists familiarize themselves with your internal permitting procedures prior to the scheduled outage. Our specialists are trained and tested in the issuance of confined space, hot work and general work permits, freeing your department to handle the volume of routine permits. With our specialized assistance you can issue permits on a timelier basis without creating “downtime” due to workers waiting for permits. Our Permit Specialists are also qualified as Safety Specialists so that they can conduct safety audits/inspections during non-peak permitting periods.

The development, implementation and maintenance of quality safety audits/inspections are performed best when control and repetition are part of the inspector’s daily tasks. Our safety specialists operate within the confines of inspections and audits, and therefore, are not distracted by additional supervisory responsibilities

We provide more consistent and accurate reporting.

The auditors/inspectors provided by CW Allied are seasoned professionals. Because we provide objective, unbiased third party services you can be assured of consistent and accurate reporting. We provide the following services:

• Daily site audits/inspections
• Weekly site audits/inspections
• Comprehensive periodic audits/inspections
• Custom audits/inspections based on client needs

CW Allied Safety Specialists provide a unique classification of Safety Observers who are knowledgeable in petrochemical plant procedures, safe work practices, and work permits, as well as contractor work practices and compliance. They can seamlessly augment any safety department’s program.

Our observers recognize potentially dangerous behavior or activity and provide data for immediate or future use.

CW Allied Safety’s Observers unobtrusively watch workers perform their tasks and are authorized to stop work immediately and notify craft supervision of any imminent or potential danger. Both safe and “at risk” data is collected from the team of observers. Data is then assimilated into categories such as PPE use, body positioning, tools/equipment, policy/procedures, communication, line of fire and any other categories that have been determined by the plant owner or project team. Feedback is provided to supervision for dissemination to work crews.

CW Allied flaggers receive comprehensive training in safe traffic control practices. Flaggers are placed at work zones to safely stop traffic as needed, maintain safe and continuous traffic flow, reduce speeds and protect work crews. Flaggers communicate instructions clearly, firmly, and courteously; move and maneuver quickly, provide signaling devices for positive guidance and direction to the traveling public. Flaggers hear, see, and recognize dangerous traffic situations and warn workers in sufficient time to avoid injury.