Temperature - European Investment Bank

WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.
Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18
ESIA Report Page 156
21.2.2 Contractor
Furthermore, a person needs to been employed, covering all the social issues. The
requirements needed for social issues will be part of the Resettlement Action Plan.
The following will be the main duties of the person responsible for the environmental
issues:
� To check regularly the monitoring and progress reports to be provided by the
Contractor (and to make sure that these reports are being produced according to
schedule).
� To carry out regular inspection visits on the construction site.
� To organise and coordinate activities of external monitoring (see below).
� To carry out some direct monitoring work of his own (most important: Water
quality monitoring, waste management, etc.). To this end, the specialist must be
provided a corresponding measuring device.
� To prepare reports for the attention of LEC management and the burrowers (at a
frequency to be determined by the Bank); the Environmental Consultant
proposed Quarterly Reports.
� To report regularly to LEC management on the state of the work and compliance
with environmental rules.
� To assist in proposing corrective measures in case non-compliance has been
observed with any of the conditions.
� To report immediately to the contractor's as well as to LEC’s management in
case a serious non-compliance, which presents considerable risks to the
environment and/or to workers' health, has been observed.
� To alert LEC and contractor's management immediately in case of an
emergency.
This should be a full time position during the entire construction period.
The contractor will have his own staff for dealing with the requirements of the contract,
and specifically for compliance with environmental management measures.
The following personnel are required:
� A safety and security manager: responsible for security (access control to the
construction site and for safety on site (availability of all required safety devices,
including health protection equipment for workers; marking of restricted areas;
control of implementation of these measures).
� Medical personnel: nurse or similar, with special training in first aid and capable
of giving instructions to workers. In order to make sure that one person is on
duty whenever work is in progress, and can be reached in cases of emergency
also during off-hours, a team of two seems to be the minimum.
� An environmental specialist (environmental engineer or similar). His main
duties will be the formulation of detailed environmental management plans
(most of which have to be in place before construction work actually starts!),
supervision of implementation of all the measures (internal monitoring),