Rudolph Botha, Health and Safety manager for Steinmüller Africa, and Arnoux De Bruin, the site-based maintenance manager at the company’s contracted Bethal-based power station, highlight the excellent safety records being achieved at Eskom’s Bethal and Kriel Power stations by Steinmüller’s onsite maintenance teams.
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Steinmüller Africa’s onsite maintenance workshop at the Bethal Power Station.
Steinmüller Africa, a leading manufacturer and maintenance supplier of piping and boilers for steam and high-pressure industries, has achieved safety milestones at its contracted Kriel and Bethal power stations in Mpumalanga. Over a period of three years and 10 months, Kriel power station achieved an outstanding 4 095 154 man-hours without a Lost Workday Case (LWDC), while Bethal achieved 3 895 LWDC-free man-days.
The extensive duration of a safe environment is testament to the team’s unwavering commitment to safety, and maximised uptime and productivity for clients. As Rudolph Botha, the company’s Health and Safety Manager, proudly says, “This accomplishment serves as a beacon of light in a challenging industry. Knowing that our employees go home safely to their families is more than a statistical achievement for us. We look forward to maintaining this progress.”
Botha explained the method for this success, “Establishing a safety-first culture is a priority. Our precautions, from programmes to corrective actions, are in place to yield benefits and not to tick boxes.” Consistent reinforcement of the importance of safety is pivotal in maintaining impressive safety records, “Ensuring that each employee understands that safety for themselves and others is in their hands, and management leading by example, has been key for an empowered workforce,” Botha emphasises.
Arnoux De Bruin, maintenance manager at the company’s contracted Bethal-based power station, expressed immense pride in this achievement: “This is a great accomplishment, and I am proud of each individual team member who contributed towards this”.
Reflecting on the company’s safety culture, De Bruin concludes: “Safety is not only driven on specific days or by specific tasks. It is an every-day, -hour, -minute and -second ethos and the starting point of each process. Steinmüller Africa is dedicated to safety and looks forward to setting new records in safe plant uptime.”
