EHS 432 Project

Directions:
This project will include each student developing a formal written safety program for the following
scenario. This project will account for 25% of your final grade. This project is to be your own
independent work. If any work is seen as being plagiarized or copied, a zero will be issued. You may
research standards on-line including federal OSHA, NIOSH in order to better understand specific
regulations and guidelines for your safety program. Also, you should be thinking and applying some of
the information and material we have studied in this course.

The project is to look and read professionally. The project should be a Microsoft Word Document and
the font should be Calibri-11 (no double spacing). Double spacing should be limited and may occur
between paragraphs and subjects. This project will be due on Friday, April 28, 2017 by 12-noon. You
will have 4 full weeks to work on this project.

Scenario:
You have been hired by Kiewit Industrial Group as an Environmental, Health & Safety Engineer. You are
relatively new to the construction industry and within the last year received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Environmental Health & Safety. Your direct manager has appointed you the EH&S Manager
over the Morris Cogeneration Facility located in Morris, Illinois. The state of Illinois recently deregulated
power and Equistar Chemicals has decided to build their own power plant.

The Cogeneration plant will be designed to be a 177-MW combined-cycle facility with three GE Frame
6B gas turbine/generators and a 60-MW steam turbine/generator, supplying a large ethylene
manufacturing plant (Equistar) in Morris, Ill (near Chicago) with electricity and over 1-million lb/hr of
steam. This project is expected to take 18 months to 2 years to complete.

The Morris Cogeneration Facility, when completed, will supply reliable, safe and environmentally sound
electrical and thermal energy to Equistar Chemicals for use in petrochemicals manufacturing at the
Morris site. The Morris Cogeneration plant will be a clean, gas-fired state-of-the-art 117 MW plant using
advanced power generation and environmental controls to significantly reduce the emissions to the
environment.

Kiewit is one of North America’s largest and most respected construction and engineering organizations.
Headquartered in Omaha, Neb., the employee-owned company operates through a network of offices in
the United States and Canada. Kiewit Industrial is one of the premiere construction companies in the
United States and a leader in the power generation market.

The cogeneration facility will be located in an existing parking lot (60 yards x 100 yards) on the interior
property of the cogeneration facility. An office trailer and a few job trailers will be located on the same
piece of property. Trailers will be used for office staff, superintendents, engineers, safety training and
separate smaller trailers will be used for construction trades.
Note:
You are working in another facility with very high safety standards due to being in a petrochemical plant.
All employees are required to be trained and understand Equistars’s strict safety policies before being
allowed in the plant. Kiewit may abide by their own safety standard on the jobsite (60 yards x 100
yards) any work or tie-ins being performed off this property location will fall under Equistar safety
standards. Kiewit is to meet and/or exceed all Equistar safety requirements and standards.

Kiewit is expecting over 300 union employees on the job at peak construction. Trades will include
laborers, pipe-fitters, iron workers, boiler-makers, carpenters, electricians, operators and teamsters.
Heavy equipment will include track excavators, bull dozers, skid steers, front-end loaders and cranes.
Cranes will include a 100-ton and a 250-ton crane. Cranes will be so large they will be delivered to the
jobsite in sections then reassembled. Cranes will be used to move and build sections of the gas turbines.
During certain parts of the job employees will be exposed to working off scissor lifts, buck scaffolding
and manlifts.

Excavations for the concrete pads will be over 10-feet deep. Three concrete pads will be poured
(24’x36’) in order to set each of the three 6B gas turbine/generators. The gas turbines will stand
approximately three stories high and will be delivered in sections by tractor trailers. Other plans for the
power plant include a switch yard, steam lines, which will be located below and above ground and tie-
ins to existing lines.

You as the EHS Manager are responsible for new-hire safety orientation, safety training, safety
meetings, heading the safety committee, completing daily field inspections and completing incident
investigations. Your findings are to be reported to the superintendent who is over the project. You will
need to design programs as well as policies and procedures around each of these duties/responsibilities.

A Kiewit philosophy is that Safety is First! You have the ability to stop any part of the project for any
identified unsafe acts or conditions. Safety is supported so well by the management team that you the
EHS Manager speak before the superintendent when holding a safety meeting or whenever discussing
safety.

Some of the risks and exposures on the jobsite will include permit-required confine space, welding
(galvanized & carbon), electrical, lockout/tagout, trenching and excavation, and working from heights.
Since this is a union job, construction trades only do their skilled trade/permitted union work (i.e.
electricians only perform electrical duties on the jobsite. This can include being responsible for all
temporary power.)

Note:
There are some additional risks that are indirectly outlined in the scenario. You will need to identify
them to ensure all risks and exposures are controlled and outlined in your safety program.