the Caterpillar 374 excavator with a riser at 3 m connecting
Automation Construction Digital & Technology section
the track car body and upper structure and worked on
of Caterpillar Inc., presented this tool that improves
making the necessary modifications to ensure that the
health & safety on site. It offers the possibility to allow
excavator was adapted to the specific project, and at
operators to run a bulldozer, excavator, wheel loader or
the same time, also focusing on safety, protection of
compactor remotely in hazardous pipeline construction
the environment, and cost effectiveness. See page 13 of
and earthmoving applications.
IPLOCA Newsletter no. 86 for further details.
The Cat Command Tool
Should you wish to review the presentations and/or the recordings of any of our webinars, please go to
On 27 May, Perry Redman, Manager, Corporate Pipeline
www.iploca.com/events/webinars. If you have an
Accounts, at Caterpillar Global Pipeline and Alan Pumklin,
interesting subject you would like to share with members,
a Cat Command specialist, working in the Autonomy and
contact jacqueline.tempel@iploca.com.
Board Meeting Update
- CSR subject on CO2 emissions, which involves developing a tool to be used to measure CO2 emissions
25 & 26 March 2021 via video and audio conference
- Driving golden rules (meetings were held via Zoom
The following summarises the main discussions and
- The organisation of a joint PLCA/IPLOCA health & safety
and provide a benchmark for the industry. in January & February 2021) and the final list will be available at the next HSE & CSR meeting.
outcomes of the March 2021 Board Meeting.
event is currently on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Safety Moment
At the time of the Board Meeting only 19% of the
Bruno Pomaré from Spiecapag shared, as a safety
mandatory HSE statistic forms had been received from
moment, an event that took place in London, U.K. at the
IPLOCA Regular Members.
end of 2020. The video showed a lorry carrying a heavy load in a narrow street. After taking a sharp bend the
The annual Pipeline Technology Conference (PTC) was
straps and chains holding the load broke and everything
held on-line from 15 to 18 March and had over 500
fell onto a parked car and the pavement. Fortunately, no
participants. Bruno Pomaré gave a presentation on
one was hurt. Although the safety regulation checklist
Safety in Design and Construction of Pipelines. During
for carrying heavy loads was respected, the straps and
his presentation he took the opportunity to provide an
chains were not sufficient to keep the load in place. The
introduction to IPLOCA and the role of the HSE & CSR
conclusion was that it would have been better to carry the
Committee.
heavy load in smaller pieces and use smaller trucks. Bruno Pomaré asked the Board Directors to continue A second video was shown of the unloading of a massive
contributing and populating the HSE Shared Experiences
cube of concrete which fell off the side of a lorry and
Platform.
rolled down to the bottom of the hill. It was noted that there are documents on the lessons learned section of
Johan Van Wassenhove mentioned that the Netherlands
the HSE Shared Experiences Platform that refer to the
and Belgium governments are imposing regulations
securing of heavy loads on trucks.
for nitrogen emissions as well as CO2 emissions. In
HSE & CSR Committee
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the Netherlands some projects have been stopped by the government as they were not respecting nitrogen
Bruno Pomaré, HSE & CSR Chairman, supported by Levent
emission standards. In the future, agriculture and other
Kafkasli, Ebbo Laenge, Robert Linder and Bobby Poteete
industries will also be required to reduce their nitrogen
in leadership roles, presented the committee report. The
emissions. Johan suggested that the HSE & CSR
next HSE & CSR Committee meeting was scheduled to
Committee anticipate this new standard that will no doubt
take place on 13 April via Zoom in conjunction with the
be implemented throughout Europe in the coming months
Novel Construction Spring Session. The main ongoing
or years. The committee agreed to look into European
action items are listed in the Action Tracking Register and
standards for nitrogen emissions and consider how these
were as follows:
should be measured during pipeline projects.
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