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It happens far too often during turnarounds. Despite months of advance planning, schedules and budgets fall off track, leaving multiple days -- and possibly millions of dollars -- wasted.
Why? More times than not, skilled workers have been taken off task to fill voids in safety and logistics staffing, reducing time on tools. Does your turnaround have enough expertise to go around?
When a plant owner asks contractors to handle work outside of the original scope -- overseeing their own safety procedures, managing their own workforce transportation or securing permitting -- the owner is undermining the schedules, budgets and safety of tightly orchestrated turnaround projects.
Eager to deliver on owner requests, contractors instinctively stretch their teams thin to provide those extraneous services, squeezing two jobs out of one worker. Skilled operators and craftsmen are pulled from their primary jobs to focus on tasks beyond their expertise or below their pay grade: preparing permits for the next shift, executing pre-shift safety checks on buses, fueling up or standing in as safety attendants. When they are stretched beyond their capacity, the value and progress of their work decreases, costing plant owners big bucks and quality performance.
So how can plant owners eliminate unproductive misalignments on their turnarounds? Staff the right people for the right jobs, and don't skimp on logistical tasks. By bringing in an authority on logistics and safety services, contractors maximize time on tools and turnaround managers become heroes.
With Onpoint, plant owners improve the odds their turnarounds, shutdowns and outages will be completed on time and on budget. Our skilled support teams and services ensure a safe working environment, allowing contractors to stay focused on their assigned responsibilities.
A dedicated logistics safety team staffs your project with well-qualified, highly trained safety attendants.
Licensed, trained and properly insured workforce transportation professionals shuttle your workers to and from the jobsite safely, with no wasted time.
Mobility services equips your plant with a mobile storehouse of rental safety equipment, ensuring workers have the supplies they need right when they need them.
When a worker bearing the Onpoint logo is on your turnaround site, you know he or she is the best qualified worker for the job at hand. Through our proprietary, exhaustive resourcing process, we identify and retain workers with superior experience. We thoroughly test and validate their skills. We also prepare them for your unique requirements with project-specific training and orientation. Throughout your project, our supervisors stay on-site to ensure services are executed with precision.
Efficiency and quality are crucial when it comes to the health of a turnaround. With Onpoint, you can maximize every hour of work -- on and off the jobsite. With large-scale projects like turnarounds, even gaining back or increasing efficiency by 1 percent can save an owner hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Before or during your next turnaround, make sure there's enough expertise to go around. Partnering with Onpoint for your safety and logistics services will put you on the right track.
To learn more about Onpoint's services, reach out to us today by calling (800) 630-1347 or visit us online at www.onpoint-us.com.