The desalination plant at Umm Al Houl in Doha, Qatar, has completed one million hours without any accidents involving lost time injury (Zero LTI)
This achievement is due to the great efforts made by workers and the safety measures applied in the plant. The milestone demonstrates ACCIONA’s commitment to hazard prevention and the application of measures that ensure the safety and health of everybody involved, as well as the responsibility of the workers themselves by prioritising and improving safety in the workplace.
This safety milestone is the result of teamwork by the workers and the operator, following several training courses in health and wellbeing. A number of Safety and Hygiene (HSE) measures have been implemented and inspections have been made on a more detailed and frequent basis, which has led to an improvement in the state of the equipment and machinery.
The preventative measures applied include the regular operation and maintenance meetings related to work permits (PTW), improvements in the organisation of the work such as the use of colour coding, certifications, the creation of specialised HSE committees, and the efforts made in digitalisation.
ACCIONA has been the main partner in the project, designing, constructing and operating it from 2017 to today. This reverse osmosis desalination plant has a total daily capacity of 894,000 m3 (in two phases) and represents a milestone in the world of desalination as it is the first time that reverse osmosis technology has been applied on a large scale in the country.
