857 MILE HAUL THROUGH TEXAS P.04 RECENT SAFETY ACHIEVEMENTS P.01 RECORD NUMBER OF MODULES SHIP OUT P.05 CORPUS CHRISTI FAB SHOP DOUBLES WORKFORCE P.13
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Safety
Recent Safety
This is who we are. Thi
We could not be more proud of our employ
Pipe Fabrication Port Allen, Louisiana 14 months and 1.5 million work-hours recordable free
Turner Specialty Services’ Inspection Group Companywide 4 million work-hours without an
Huntsman/ Rubicon Chemical
OSHA recordable
Geismar, Louisiana
Shell
2 years and 1.3 million work-hours with ZERO OSHA recordables
Motiva Convent, Louisiana 2 years and 1.8 million work-hours OSHA recordable free
Deer Park, Texas 2.4 million work-hours OSHA recordable free
“Our work includes routine maintenance, turnarounds, and small capital projects. This achievement, along with being an OSHA VPP
INEOS Oxide
Star site, is a reflection of
Plaquemine, Louisiana
the “Maintenance Excel-
5 years and 1 million work-hours OSHA
lence” vision and culture shared by Huntsman/ Rubicon and Turner, and
Huntsman Tioxide
recordable free “We have had the maintenance contract at
individual at the site,” said
Warehouse Lake Charles, Louisiana
Darrell Ferguson, Turner
14 years OSHA
the plant home safely each day,” said Phil M.
site manager.
recordable free
Gauthreaux, Turner project manager, mainte-
more importantly, by each
INEOS for almost 4 years and appreciate the commitment to sending everyone working in
nance & turnaround division.
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Achievements
is is what we do.
oyees for their effort, focus and dedication.
Turner Industries Inspection/NDE at DOW SCO Taft, Louisiana 12 years and 575,000 OSHA recordable free work-hours
Shell/Motiva Norco, Louisiana 2 years and 2.4 million work-hours OSHA recordable free
Hexion Deer Park, Texas 8 years OSHA recordable free
Turner Specialty Services at DOW LAO Plaquemine, Louisiana 12 years and 1.25 million work-hours OSHA recordable free including a difficult eight month inspection project successfully completed “On behalf of John Soileau, DOW LAO mechanical integrity leader and me, we would like to extend our appreciation and gratitude for the outstanding work performed by the critical service piping group. There are too many positive comments to list but to sum it up, the Turner crew was amiable, sincere, self-motivated, detailed and most importantly, safe,” said Ryker Keller, DOW inspection contract administrator and maintenance technical services scheduler.
Shell/Criterion Port Allen, Louisiana 5 years OSHA recordable free “This accomplishment is a result of a commitment to Turner’s Life Critical Safety Rules and Shell’s 12 Lifesaving Rules, along with the effort, discipline
Westlake Chemical Westlake, Louisiana 3 years and 1.7 million work-hours OSHA recordable free
and responsibility invested by all at the site,” said Clayton Jumonville, Turner maintenance project manager.
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Community Investment
Turner Industries Breaks Ground on New Administrative Facility in Paris, Texas
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ground breaking took place on Wednesday, July 1 for the new 26,000 square feet, $6.5 million administrative building to support our pipe fabrication facility in Paris, Texas. The single story building will be located across from the current office complex on 19th S.W. Street.
Ground breaking of the new facility.
“We are happy to be making this investment in our Paris location. The new, state-of-the-art facility will improve working conditions for our employees and provide efficiencies to better enable us to serve our customers,� said Thomas Turner, president and vice chairman of Turner Industries. Projected occupancy is scheduled for early August, 2016. Architectural rendering of the new administration facility.
New Regional Personnel Office Currently Under Construction
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he construction of a new 18,400 square foot personnel building is well underway in Sulphur, Louisiana. With parking for over 250 vehicles and updated training, health evaluation and processing rooms, this new facility will allow Turner to better accommodate and serve potential employees during the hire-in process.
Like our Baton Rouge, Louisiana personnel office, the Sulphur office will have on-site Safety Council staff and NCCER testing capabilities, making the office a one-stop-shop for hiring, shortening the time to field from days to hours. Estimated completion date is December, 2015.
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Architectural rendering of the new personnel office.
TURNER 2.0 Turner Industries TURNER Com2.0 Turner Industries Companypany Update Update Specialized Transportation
Specialized Transportation Group Completes 857 Mile Haul
Pecos, TX Marble Falls, TX
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he specialized transportation group recently completed another major haul. The challenge was to relocate three very large modular process skids from our scaffold yard in Pasadena, Texas to a pumping station in Pecos, Texas. Traveling 857 miles through the back roads of central Texas and the foothills of west Texas, the crew completed the journey in only four days. Several of the passes through the hills were steep, but all obstacles were negotiated without incidents or injuries and the Turner group delivered the skids to a satisfied client at the end of the job.
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LEAVING TOWN
TURNER INDUSTRIES TOPS ENR TEXAS/ LOUISIANA CONTRACTORS LIST AGAIN
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urner Industries retained its No. 1 spot on ENR’s (Engineering News-Record) annual Texas & Louisiana Top Contractors list with regional revenue totaling $2.37 billion for 2014. Turner has held this ranking since 2011. The company posted a $160-million gain over the previous year with all divisions reporting positive revenue.
“Our contract maintenance and turnaround divisions are steady and growing. Pipe fabrication, equipment and rigging divisions are heavily dependent on the overall construction market. We remain cautiously optimistic that market share will be maintained and strengthened in 2016/2017.” — Roland Toups Chairman/CEO of Turner Industries
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TRAVELING THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS OF TEXAS
NEW EQUIPMENT
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ur specialized transportation group is pleased to announce the addition of twenty (20) axles lines of Goldhofer PST/SL-E Modular Transporters to their expanding fleet of heavy duty transporters. These state-of-the-art and fully electronic modular trailers have multiway steering to 135 degrees and 45 metric tons axle loading.
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Modular Fabrication
As Record Number of Modules Ship Out—New Work is Already Underway
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ince last fall, our modular fabrication yard on Highway 415 in Port Allen, Louisiana has been busier than ever. Thirty-seven modules, ranging from 40’ to 280’ in length—the largest one weighing in at over 417 tons—have been fabricated. The 37 modules were successfully completed and shipped out on barges via the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and have all safely made it to our clients’ destinations. As these modules shipped out, several new projects, each with multiple modules, were already underway.
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2,488 TONS OF STEEL
94,952 LINEAR FEET OF PIPING
241,152 WORK-HOURS
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Message from the Benefits Department
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Employee Profile
Meet Inspector Gw
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lease meet Authorized Pressure Vessel and Piping Inspector (API 510/570); thermographer; anthropology graduate; Army veteran; former Wells Fargo account executive; cancer survivor; singer; musician; mother; new grandmother; and your co-worker—Gwendolyn Long. Born in Ft. Stewart, Georgia, Gwendolyn’s father was in the military—as were many relatives before him. In fact, her family’s military history can be traced back to the American Revolution. Her father’s career took the family all over the United States and abroad. Growing up, Gwendolyn spent several years living in Germany where she recalls seeing the Berlin Wall before it fell. Since 1996 she has lived in Louisiana—the longest time she has ever been in one place—and she says she never wants to leave. “I love everything about where I am right now,” said Gwendolyn. Gwendolyn has not always been in the inspection field. Her career began in the Army, where she was an 88K watercraft operator. After the Army, she attended Louisiana State University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in anthropology. When the anthropology job market proved to be rather slim, she took a job as account executive for Wells Fargo, overseeing mortgage sales brokers. She was very successful until the bottom fell out of the real estate market, and Gwendolyn found herself looking for a new career. “I lost everything because my life was dependent on a sector of the economy that collapsed,” said Gwendolyn. At that point, she had only one option—pick up the pieces and start over. “Someone suggested I get into the inspection field because of my background,” she said. Interestingly enough, a person with the skills of an Army veteran and a degree in anthropology turns out to make the perfect inspector. “You have to have a good head on your shoulders, be physically and mentally fit with the desire to search and find. Both my military training and my college degree have really helped me in my work. As it turns out, inspecting is very much like anthropology; you conduct research, gather the data and write up your findings in a report.”
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wendolyn Long Gwendolyn has now been working at Turner Specialty Services in the inspection field since 2007. She inspects high pressure vessels, exchangers, towers and more. She looks for defects, mechanical issues, damage mechanisms, stress corrosion, etc. Her job is both physically and mentally demanding, sometimes requiring her to wear a full face respirator under fresh air for extended periods of time. She must climb in and out of vessels and work in tight spaces while at the same time paying attention to the smallest details. As a thermographer, she looks for hot spot and cold spots, which can indicate refractory failure or blockage. She also supervises thermography projects on various sites. Gwendolyn and several co-workers recently completed a very complicated critical piping project, for which they received great reviews from the client and we are proud to have her on our team.
Why was Turner the right fit for you? “Turner is a huge company with opportunities all over the U.S. and they don’t think twice about hiring women.” What is the best advice you have ever received? “Work hard and listen to your elders.” What advice would you give to people who aspire to work at Turner? “Work hard and safely and you can move up. Turner will invest in you, if you invest in Turner.” What do you find most satisfying about your job? “Even though I am technically competent and knowledgeable in my field, I constantly learn something new every day.”
“I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW.”
What makes Turner different from other places you’ve worked? “Turner employees look out for each other and their safety. Turner reminds me of the camaraderie I experienced in the military.” What would like your fellow employees to know about you? “I am a ten year cancer survivor.” What do you enjoy doing outside of work? “I sing in a band called “Lil Bit Meaux.” We sing at festivals and charity events. Most of our “gigs” are fundraisers. Raising money for people in need is much more rewarding than getting paid to play.”
Thank you Gwendolyn, for being a part of Turner Industries!
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TEAM Turner™
Annual Food Drive Progress Report ˜˜ The Houston area collected 1,800 lbs.
of food (1,200 lbs. from our employees at the Shell, Deer Park site!) benefitting the Pasadena Community Ministry Food Bank.
BACK TO SCHOOL TIME! TEAM Turner™ in Lake Charles, Louisiana once again collected three-ring binders for the 201516 back to school drive headed by “CARE Help of Sulphur.” This year, approximately 256 binders were donated which will be included in packets of supplies for high school students.
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TEAM Turner™ in Corpus Christi, Texas “stuffed the bus” with much needed school supplies for local kids.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana TEAM Turner™ members acted as student guides and classroom aides during Volunteers in Public Schools’ (VIPS) back to school event “First Day Helpers.”
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Pictured left to right are: Mary Ellen Montgomery, Executive Assistant, Turner Industries; Greg Dorman, Project Controls, Turner Industries; Jody Farnum, Executive Director, CARE Help of Sulphur; Vanessa Stewart, Safety Administrative Assistant, Turner Industries.
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˜˜ Corpus Christi, Texas collected 464
lbs. of food benefitting the Corpus Christi Food Bank. ˜˜ Our Decatur, Alabama region collected
150 items benefitting Barrels of Love.
˜˜ The Baton Rouge region collected
enough food to provide 34,323 meals that will be distributed in the 11 parishes that the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank serves. ˜˜ The New Orleans region collected
1,130 meals and delivered their donation to Second Harvest, another Feeding America partner that serves 23 parishes.
The Paris, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana food drives are coming up this fall.
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here are many people involved in making a project like this a success. Before the first food item is collected, coordination takes place between the food drive leaders and other departments. The safety department creates the job safety analysis for the project and in some cases, the equipment yard loans collection containers modified for safety and handles transportation from the Turner locations to the food bank. Project managers, superintendents, division managers and others encourage and motivate employees throughout the regions to participate. Volunteers give their time to help load and unload the containers. It’s a true TEAM effort!
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TEAM Turner™ Supports Belle Chasse, Louisiana Volunteer Fire Department
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t the Belle Chasse Volunteer Fire Department (BCVFD) annual Fishing Tournament, the Turner fishing team from Phillips 66 won 1st place overall and also took home 3rd place for largest redfish. Proceeds benefit the Volunteer Fire Department for training purposes, literature, and community education.
Pictured are Travis Sylve, Blake Sylve, Norris Sylve, Thomas Bartholomew, and Donald Parker, all craftsmen at Phillips 66.
TEAM Turner™ Volunteers at Swamp Pop Music Festival
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he 18th Annual Swamp Pop Music Festival benefitting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation was recently held at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, Louisiana, with tons of music, food and fun. TEAM Turner members volunteered at the jambalaya booth where they served over 300 plates of jambalaya cooked by our own Sandy Duplessis and Esther Daigrepont. Turner volunteers also worked a beverage booth. Thank you to all our volunteers for giving your time to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
TEAM TURNER™ – PARIS, TEXAS PARTICIPATES IN RELAY FOR LIFE
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elay for Life is an American Cancer Society fundraising event to honor cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost and fight back against a frightening disease. It is an organized overnight community walk where team members take turns walking around a track while the rest of the teams camp out, enjoying food and games. Our TEAM Turner in Paris, Texas recently participated in their regional event. In the weeks prior to the relay, TEAM Turner members held two separate bake sales, hosted an employee hamburger lunch and sold TEAM Turner Relay for Life t-shirts in order to raise money for the event. Relay for life – Paris, Texas
Employee support enabled Turner Industries Paris, Texas fabrication division to donate $4,218.00!
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My Tool Kit
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he daily tasks performed by our employees and tools used vary a lot. To learn more about each other, let’s look in some of our employees’ tool kits. James D. Hoppens, known to his friends and co-workers as “Doug,” is a QC dimensional inspector at our pipe fabrication shop in Pasadena, Texas. As a QC dimensional inspector, Doug is responsible for making sure each pipe spool meets the dimensional requirements specified by the client before leaving the shop. Doug has been with Turner for almost eight years, and this is what makes up his inspector tool kit:
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1 Tools of the trade “Hammer, level, 2-hole pins and squares. I use these tools every day, safely.” 2 Safety Glasses “To protect my eyes from debris and bright light. Very important.” 3 A Legal Pad “This is to write sketch numbers down so I can keep track of my work.” 4 Clipboard “This holds all the sketches I am currently working on.” 5 Inspection Mirror “I use this to look for stencils under the pipe.”
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6 Bandana “It can get really hot in southern Texas so to keep the sweat out of my eyes I tie a bandana around my head.” 7 Tool cart (it’s under his tool box) “I keep all my tools on a tool cart so I can roll them around from spool to spool.” 8 Pictures of my Daughter “I have these taped on the inside of my tool box to remind me of what’s important in life.”
TURNER 2.0 Turner Industries Company Update United Way®
2015-2016 United Way Campaign is Underway— Be the Solution
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urner Industries’ annual United Way campaign kicked off in August at the monthly safety meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Our Campaign Coordinator, Michelle Hardy, shared information about last year’s campaign—the most successful yet—and gave important information regarding this year’s campaign.
Keynote Speaker This year’s keynote Speaker was Dan Comiskey, a former Canadian Football League all-star and a two-time Grey Cup champion. Dan is now a behavioral safety specialist, philanthropist, author and public speaker, as well as Chairman of the Canadian Cancer Society. Since retiring from the Canadian Football League in 2010, Dan has spent his time working in the heavy oil industry in northern Alberta, Canada. This career path led to a position in behavioral safety and has allowed Dan to further his work in safety culture. He has also co-written several books: The Truth about Success, Enduring Principles of Leadership, My Rules and Professional Coaching. Dan’s involvement as a leader both in football and in industrial safety established him as a sought after speaker and we are very proud to have had him participate in our 2015-2016 United Way Campaign kick-off. His message of personal accountability and how it lends itself to safety and philanthropy was well received. To schedule a company representative to come to your site and help run your campaign, please contact Michelle Hardy at 225.214.2637 or mhardy1@ turner-industries.com. Let’s be the solution and support the communities in which we live and work!
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Workforce Development Corpus Christi Managers Scout Promising Recruits to Double Their Workforce
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ith a greatly increasing workload, Operations Manager Don Arehart and QC Manager Victor Garcia, have found that filling the employee pipeline and reducing turnover means expanding the talent search beyond their usual boundaries. To do that, Don realized they needed a way to get to know potential employees better and to be able to observe them in action in order to find prospects who embody Turner Industries’ values: ˜˜ A great safety ethic. ˜˜ A strong work ethic. ˜˜ People who value themselves and their co-workers. ˜˜ People who value and appreciate a stable work environment.
multiple times before graduation, observing students’ skills and behavior, getting to know them, and recruiting the promising ones long before they test. New employees are then trained in-house to production weld and so far, it is seems like the investment of time up front is paying off. The Corpus Fabrication Division is now operating 24 hours a day Monday through Thursday and 13 hours a day Friday through Sunday.
Day shift
To all our new recruits we say: welcome aboard!
Weekend day shift
Students
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In addition to working with local schools, Don and Victor began scouting talent from the South Texas Vocational Technical Schools in San Antonio and Weslaco, and Texas State Technical College in Harlingen where they found instructors and students who exhibit the desired characteristics. Like talent scouts, they visit the schools
Project Controls Rolls Out New Training Class
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n an on-going effort to improve project controls, our training department put together a new 4-week class to train new project controls employees. The first training class was held at the regional office in Pasadena, Texas. The class trains employees in basic project controls concepts, procedures, planning and estimating. Also included in the class are cost tracking, cost projections and minimum standard operating procedures.
Goose Creek Independent School District (I.S.D.) Teachers Visit Pasadena, Texas Pipe Fabrication Shop
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uring their summer break, Jeff Strobl and Kenneth Rogers, Career and Technical Education teachers from Goose Creek I.S.D., toured Turner’s pipe fabrication shop in Pasadena, Texas, to learn more about Turner’s welding and pipe fabrication processes and take that knowledge back to the classroom.
Pictured left to right are: Brian Daigle, Jeff Strobl, Kenneth Rogers and Apol Fonseca.
Brian Daigle, pipe fabrication vice president/plant manager and Apol Fonseca, site superintendent, were on hand to explain what Turner expects from employees regarding production and safety. We hope their new knowledge of what we do will be used in the classroom and result in more of their graduating students being employed by us in the future.
Participants and instructors in the new project controls training class.
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Turner sponsors Goose Creek I.S.D. under the ABC- Construction Careers Youth Committee (CCYC). Goose Creek offers the NCCER CORE and Welding Curriculum to their students in their Career and Technical programs and is also preparing for a future pipefitting program.
TURNER 2.0 Turner Industries Company Update Announcements
Turner Industries Together with ABC Texas Mid Coast Chapter Donate $4,500 ABC Texas Mid Coast Chapter, with the support of Turner Industries, recently donated $1,500 each to three charities: Golden Crescent CASA, Ronald McDonald House Charities and The Harbor. The funds provided came from the 2015 ABC annual fishing tournament. “We encourage community awareness and believe when companies and their employees actively invest in volunteerism, positive social and public partnerships inevitably result, which improves quality of life for all,” said Glenn Heim, regional operations manager of Turner Industries and ABC fishing tournament committee member.
The Golden Crescent CASA mission is to utilize trained volunteers, appointed by the court, to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children and assist in placing them in nurturing, permanent homes.
Ronald McDonald House Charities provides comfort, safety, and advocacy in a home-like environment for families with critically ill or injured children who must travel to fulfill their healthcare needs.
The Harbor’s mission is to lessen the trauma of sexual assault, child abuse/neglect, and other crime for victims and their families and to improve the response of the criminal justice system by uniting the efforts of public agencies and enlisting support from the community.
Several Long-term Employees Retire Alton “Jimmy” Guidry Equipment Division | 49 years of service Jimmy started working for Nichols as an oiler/apprentice in 1966. He received his Oiler Book in 1968 and became an operator in 1973. He retired as a crane & rigging supervisor. James “Jim” Roberts Turner Specialty Services | 46 years of service Jim was hired in 1968 by our current CEO, Roland Toups. Continually learning new inspection techniques, his job took him all over the country and abroad. He retired as a Level 2 UT-PT-MT-VT, Level 2 ET, and API-653 certified inspector. Frank Jeanmard Construction Division | 42 years of service Frank started out with Turner in 1973 after being part of the very first graduating class from LSU’s Construction Technology program (now Construction Management) and retired as a senior contract administrator. Turner thanks you for your loyalty and hard work and wishes you all the best.
By providing a safe haven for these victims of crime, their goals are to advocate for their rights and specific needs and create an environment where violence is no longer tolerated.
DON’T FORGET! Our annual benefits enrollment is coming November 9th through the 30th. This is your yearly opportunity to sign up or make changes to your insurance coverage. Important notice: To get the non-smoker credit, employees must visit tigbenefits.com
Questions? Please call 225-214-2566.
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