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transfieldservices.comTHE TRANSFIELD SERVICES BUSINESS MAGAZINE29Starting worksafelyThe Work Safely Centre is atraining centre that provideshands-on and nationallyaccredited training courses sothat new employees start worksafely in the oil and gas, mining,civil and related industries.The Honourable Tom Kenyon,South Australian Minister forEmployment, Higher Educationand Skills, officially opened thelatest Centre in Adelaide on 23February 2012.The Minister, along with clientrepresentatives from Santos andBHP Billiton, had the opportunity totour the training areas provided forconfined space, working at heights,and whitecard Occupational Healthand Safety induction. Guestsalso tried out the motion-basedsimulators that allowed them to‘road-test’ excavators, bulldozersand graders.The Work Safely Centre openinghas been made possible thanksto sponsorships from TransfieldWorley, Santos, Penrice andthe Industrial Foundation forAccident Prevention, and islocated in the South Australianbranch of the Civil ContractorsFederation (CCF SA) inThebarton, Adelaide.Mr Peter Nolan, the ChiefExecutive Officer of the CCFSA, says interactive training isup to four times more effectivethan traditional classroom basedtraining in aiding the retentionof information.“Interactive training helpspeople retain information,which leads to safer workplaces,especially in industries wherepeople work in close proximityto large items of machinery or indangerous situations.”The concept for the Centre wasinspired by collaboration at aTransfield Worley Leading PracticeForum in 2004. Since then,hands-on training centres havebeen opened in Perth, WesternAustralia; Gladstone, Queenslandand now Adelaide, South Australia.WorkCover relyon us for highrisk workThe team on our NSW Schools,TAFE and Whole of GovernmentFacilities Management Contractrecently completed high riskwork for a WorkCover officebuilding in full view of itsinspectors – without a hitch!The team were called upon toexternally clean windows onWorkCover’s six-storey officebuilding in Gosford on the NSWCentral Coast. Thanks to carefulplanning by the Health, Safety,Environment and Quality (HSEQ)team, the job proceeded safelyand smoothly.The Hon Tom Kenyon MP road-tests one of the 26 heavy vehicle simulators,watched on by Safework Australia Chairman Tom Phillips AM.Transfield Services has providedfacility maintenance servicesincluding cleaning to schools, TAFEcolleges and other governmentagency sites across the HunterValley and Central Coast regions inNSW since 1 July 2011.This WorkCover job is just oneexample of the type of work thecontract includes. These servicesare designed to keep a facilityoperating in an optimal mannerand align the performance ofGOODBYE SILOSImagine being able to do your job in exactly the sameway at any site or office or contract within our global business. Forexample, if you are a maintenance supervisor or a procurementmanager or HR administrator you would be able to use one set ofprocesses with perhaps some localisation at the activity level (whererequired by law or by a client). This is the aim of the TransfieldServices Business Process Standardisation Project being led by ourGlobal Quality and Performance Excellence group.The Business Process Standardisation Project willprovide a central repository for all the workalready being done in the standardisationarea such as Centres of Excellence and ProjectQuantum, while facilitating the standardisationof processes across the organisation.The Project will collect andcollate all current TransfieldServices processes and mapthem into a framework.This will allow usto clearly identifyand rectify anyduplication or gapsin the processes we use.the facility with the needs of theresident business.The two-day job was overseen byArea Supervisor, Heath Muscatand HSE Coordinator, OwenLeslie, who were on site ensuringeverything went to plan.The technically difficult job wascompleted by one of our trustedcontractors ‘See Thru Windows’.The design and shape of thewindow shades located on eachwindow of the southern andP. 30 >To assist the organisation in achieving this goal the Project team,consisting of Karen Wlasichuk, Chris Tham and three experiencedBusiness Process Standardisation consultants, will identify andtrain Transfield Services Business Process Owners and developa governance model for business process management. Theteam will also develop agreed methodologies, guidelines, andstandards for business process mapping, design and ongoingmanagement and roll these out across the organisation.The Business Process Standardisation project is the first significantstep in our journey to develop and implement a new GlobalManagement System which will drive operational excellence andallow us to integrate processes, standards, procedures and moreimportantly the right behaviors into our daily operations.