It happens every day. Hours of time are lost and as a result, thousands of dollars are wasted. Why? Because there isn't enough expertise to go around on a turnaround job site.
Often, when an operating company allows mechanical contractors to self-perform their own safety activities and other services like busing and permitting, they're throwing the dice and betting that a contractor's workers can fulfill the work of two men. For hours and hours each shift, foremen are pulled away from their crews to prepare permits for the next shift, execute safety checks on buses, fuel buses or stand in for safety attendants who are on break. They stretch themselves thin trying to provide these non-core services required to execute a successful turnaround. The thing is, a worker's time doesn't come cheap, and when attempting to stretch their abilities, the value of their work decreases -- costing the plant owner significant budget overages and production time.
What's the answer?
So, what can plant owners do to maximize the execution and efficiency of their turnarounds and capital projects? Budgets are always tight, and addressing delays and overruns in the schedule is a constant battle.
Easy! Give the contractors the support they need. Let the contractors and specialists be experts in what they do best, and bring in an authority on safety services, workforce transportation and logistics to complement their work. Onpoint offers our clients access to a safety and logistics support team that allows contractors to focus on what you hired them to do while working in a safe and efficient environment facilitated by safety professionals and attendants from Onpoint. This provides plant owners with the peace of mind to know that the turnaround will be staffed efficiently, giving it the best chance to finish on time and on budget.
Onpoint saves shutdowns, turnarounds and outages time, money and quality by providing specialized, trained workers for safety activities. We'll provide the most qualified safety professionals and attendants who have extensive hands-on training to keep workers safe and working efficiently. Our certified transportation services will get workers to and from the jobsite and increase time on tools. We also provide safety consumables trailers using Onpoint Mobility to issue and track consumables distribution and items for return. This ensures safety consumables are available when needed and a record is kept of consumables and items for return for cost tracking.
But Onpoint doesn't just staff these resources; we expertly manage them, which is a real value-add for plant owners. Can you imagine? Owners can rest assured the nitty-gritty details of a turnaround are being handled by industry-leading specialists so they can focus on the big picture success of their project.
Efficiency and quality are crucial when it comes to the success of a turnaround, and with Onpoint, you can maximize every hour of work on the jobsite. After all, with a largescale project like a turnaround, even gaining back or increasing efficiency by 1 percent can save an owner hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. So make sure there's enough expertise to go around on your jobsite and partner with Onpoint for your safety, transportation and logistics needs.
For more information on Onpoint's safety or transportation services, please visit www.onpoint-us.com or call (281) 461-9340.