Just like any industrial facility management, industries, especially from the petrochemical market, these cases are highly concerned with security. Most of the efficiency changes coming to these businesses are brought to premises in order to cut down the costs and time. On the other hand, it also respects the workers.
The same holds true during the turnaround. Turnaround refers to the situations when the manufacturing plants shutdown their units for maintenance, enhancement or other emergency cases. The process needs to be carried out in a safe and efficient environment. While it is not very unusual that the lost and missing productions cost during this time outweighs the cost of turnarounds itself, we can easily see a sudden increase of the daily workers on site, which ultimately increases the security and safety concerns.
Historically, much emphasis has been placed on planning, scheduling and control of plant shutdowns, corporations are not convinced of the results they get at plant shutdown projects. It is important to note that every project must be accompanied by a business plan where the vision, objectives, strategies and expectations of the corporation are reflected in the return on investment.
The component that we must take into account in the projects of stops of plant is to have a vision and mission of the strategic plan of investment. The design of this plan is influenced by internal and external factors that natural work teams must take into account, such as business and financial aspects of the company, commitments to customers, cash flow projections and flexibility required to the date of execution and duration of the stop.
In plant shutdown projects, the greatest demand for resources comes when a plant is shut down for a long period of time, which means creating a schedule or maintenance program. As a general rule, a long list of work is planned over a period of time. Special equipment must be contracted to cover the additional work required and special needs.
Plant shutdown projects are known under different names depending on the industry: Shutdown, Shut-in, Down-Turn, Turnaround or Outage, it’s the moment when company departments reveal their functional failures. That's the reason some maintenance and operations managers and managers are afraid of these downtime.
What do the off-duty police officers do?
You may not assume the importance of security personnel as an individual for the management of crowd but they acquire the specialized experience as well as skills. These officers can help mitigating the crowd, dangers as well as keeping things in order. They know the right positions to coordination with the crowd successfully. In fact, their presence itself sends a strong message which keeps the trouble away. Don't underestimate what an office can bring just by being there.
