250 hrs
of high-risk work avoided in a single cyclone event
Scaffolding operation at a cyclone-prone WA resources site
Planning cyclone preparations with data, not guesswork
- The challenge
- With only a few days’ notice of a cyclone, scaffold teams tend to start strip-down straight away “to be safe”. If the cyclone changes course, all of that work has to be re-erected. The site carries about 2,000 tonnes of scaffold and sees around two cyclone events a year.
- What EXTAG did
- Every scaffold is tagged and recorded in EXTAG. A Cyclone Hours report shows how many labour hours preparation will take against the people available on site. With three days’ notice, the team could see the work would take less than two days, so preparations were scheduled to start the following day instead of immediately. The cyclone changed direction and no preparation was needed.
- Results
- Approx. 250 hours of strip and re-erection work avoided in one event
- Unnecessary high-risk work avoided
- Better data availability allowed better planning, and the system paid for itself in a single event
EXTAG for scaffolding“We had three days notice for a recent cyclone event. We checked the Cyclone Hours report in the EXTAG System and as we had enough personnel on site to complete the work in less than two days, we scheduled preparations to begin the following day. The cyclone changed direction and preparations were no longer required. Without this report we would have started work immediately to prepare and would have consequently had to undo the work we did when given the all clear. Significant work and cost was avoided.”
— Scaffolding supervisor, cyclone-prone WA resources site
