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Al Hassan Engineering achieves 2 million safe man-hours for A'Seeb STP Project (07 March 2010)

MUSCAT - Al Hassan Engineering Co. SAOG (AHEC) gives the highest priority to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) so as to protect and keep safe its employees and the work place as well as to strive to achieve world class standards in HSE. Keeping this in mind, AHEC has executed a number of projects in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Power and Water sectors without any lost time incidents (LTIs) and has now worked 32 million LTI free man-hours since 2007. In 2009, AHEC worked 12.3 million man-hours and drove 14.6 million km without any LTI. This completely unblemished record is achieved for second year in succession."

AHEC added another feather to its cap with achievement of 2-million man-hours without Lost Time Injury for A’Seeb Sewage Treatment Project for Haya Water/Hyundai Rotem.

Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Peter Hall, CEO-AHEC said: "At AHEC, our work force is our greatest asset and we invest time in training, and money in safety, to care for our team. Safety awareness is a top priority and measures are in place to ensure our team is looked after. It is important that we look after our hard-working team and continue to deliver the excellent results that our clients have come to expect from us."

"AHEC has won a number of awards in recognition of its continuous excellent HSE performance from industry associations, its clients and international EPC contractors. In 2009, PDO conducted "Letter of Assurance", HSE Audits on selected contractors including AHEC. AHEC has achieved the "Excellent" rating from PDO."

Mr. Hall thanked the AHEC A’Seeb project team for the achievement and requested them to keep up the good work. He also thanked Hyundai Rotem and Haya Water for their continued guidance and support on the HSE aspects of the project. He stressed that the implementation of programmes such as the Safety Training Observation Programme (STOP), Permit to Work Systems, Job Safety Analysis (JSA) and tool box meetings were integral to the success of the sites’ zero LTI performances.

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