Maintenance contractors

The services of an outside maintenance contractor are usually on an annual contract basis and should clearly define the work which... 

Staffing problems experienced by the operations and maintenance contractor also contributed to the schedule slippage. The contractor has suffered from a lack of qualified personnel to fill technical and management positions because of rapidly increasing staffing needs, and high employee turnover. Recruitment was hindered by the poor living conditions on the island. 

Before the start of the operational testing of JACADS, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs received an allegation that JACADS air filtration system did not meet industry standards. The air filtration system was one of the last systems the contractors had to test and accept before the plant could go operational. Initially the filter system could not pass the test because of welding leaks, inadequate filter clamps, and gaps in the charcoal trays. The operations and maintenance contractor and the air filtration contractor corrected these problems, and the system has performed according to the Army s specifications with no breakdowns affecting destruction rates. The air filtration contractor has also won the contract to provide similar systems for the follow-on facilities in the continental United States. 

In 1985, the operations and maintenance contractor awarded the air filtration contractor, by competitive bidding, a subcontract totaling 2.9 million to fabricate and install JACADS air filtration system. After the units had been fabricated and delivered to JACADS, the operations and maintenance contractor awarded the air filtration contractor a 1.3 million sole-source contract to expand for safety purposes the original filters from two banks of charcoal each to a total of six. 

The air filtration system was one of the last systems on which the operations and maintenance contractor had to perform testing and acceptance before the contractor could begin operational testing of JACADS. The system could not be fully tested until all the processing equipment had been installed, the building and duct work had been sealed off, and the plant s painting had been completed. 

A May 16, 1990 memo signed by the operations and maintenance contractor s program director and Army officials noted that all the air filters met or exceeded the Army s acceptance standards. 

When external staff who have not received such training (e.g. building or maintenance contractors) need to be brought in, particular care should be taken over their supervision. 

Note that, in this context, suppliers could include design contractors and maintenance contractors as well as suppliers of components. 

The employer shall develop and implement safe work practices to provide for the control of hazards during operations such as lockout/tagout confined space entry opening process equipment or piping and control over entrance into a facility by maintenance, contractor, laboratory, or other support personnel. These safe work practices shall apply to employees and contractor employees. 

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Case 2. An oil refinery with almost 400 employees involves its employees in a variety of ways. Employees act as safety and health monitors assigned to preventive maintenance contractors. Employees developed and revised safe work procedures and are part of the team that develops and reviews job hazard analyses. They serve as work group safety and health auditors. 

Extensive maintenance work is to be carried out on a piecemeal basis in a working warehouse. List SIXTEEN items that should be covered in a site induction briefing for the maintenance contractor s employees. 

There are also opportunities to link the health and safety file with other documents such as the Buildings Regulations Log Book. The HSC want to ensure that such links can be made to make the file as useful and easy to maintain as possible. The potential practical value of the information contained in the file is also likely to increase as more clients make use of the Internet to share this information with designers and contractors. (For example, maintenance contractors could check what access equipment and parts they are likely to need to repair a fault before leaving for the site, saving them and their clients inconvenience, time and money.)... 

At about 1200, maintenance contractors left their temporary trailers near the isomerization unit for a lunch to celebrate 1 month without lost-time injury. 

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