ISSUE 110 Friday 16th September 2016

In this weeks edition

The Blue Bus Award Winners Facilities Maintenance Team

Labour Sharing Shift 3
New Technology = New Solutions
Continued Improvement in Electrical Safety
Environmental Sustainability. Making a Step Change.

And the winner of the Blue Bus Award is

The Facilities Maintenance Team
A shining example of the power of team work, demonstrating a shared sense of pride in their
achievements and a passion to keep looking for new and innovative ways to work even more
effectively together to improve our business.
This team has shown
how to "give things a
go" and come up
trumps, simplifying air
conditioner
maintenance, implementing
card reader systems
and working hard to
bring us to new levels
of cooperation across
site and performance
of compressed air.

Excited much Nick??

A great example of Blue Bus and the start of new possibilities.

The Facilities Maintenance Team is made up of Roy McFarlane, Paul

Davis, Jade Maddigan, Daryl Stirrat, Nick Landrigan, Todd Lilley, Abe
Humphreys, Tim Beasley, Tom Lampe & Peter Sharkey (Supv).

Labour Sharing on Shift 3

Due to unforeseen circumstances on Dayshift 7/9/2016 Carbon needed some assistance to ensure anode delivery to Electrolysis was achieved on time and Casting operator Mathew Blackmore was only too willing to help out his mates in Carbon. With
Mathew helping in Carbon a gap was left in the metal hauling team, a quick call to
Ashley Weekes in Electrolysis was made and he too was ready to help out his mates in Casting to ensure Metal Flow was not affected. A really fantastic example
of Blue Bus thinking from the Shift 3 Team. Terrific Effort.

Matt Blackmore & Ashley Weekes

With the introduction of new technology,

improvement ideas are constantly becoming
possible. A recent example was the Filter Support Crew requiring a new vacuum nozzle to
clean out the GTC bag filters. The existing nozzle was simply a steel tube duct-taped to the
hose, with the crew asking the question: Can
the 3D Printer make a new nozzle? Yes! This
is exactly what its here for, to allow us to design and manufacture new parts exactly how
we want them. After some discussion with
the crew and help from Andrew OConnell and
Nathan Parsons from Engineering we were
able to print exactly what the crew needed in
just a few days. Even making a 2nd improved
version after testing the first! This cheap and
innovative solution is just one example of what
our 3D printer can do, if you have any ideas
please let me know and well find a way to
make it happen!

Before

After

marshall.holden@tomago.com.au

Continued
Improvement in
Electrical Safety

voltage gloves are conforming to

Australian and international standards, and ensuring that test equipment are periodically calibrated
and tested as fit for service.

The TAC Electrical Safety Committee (ESC) is continually reviewing methods and tools to ensure
and improve safety for our personnel.

Some implementation work is still

in progress, but the fact the ESC
were so successful in rapidly dealing with the electrical safety audit
outcomes is reason for celebrating
a Win of the Week. Well done!

During the recent electrical safety

audit, 8 minor non-conformances
were identified. Through some
hard work and perseverance, the
ESC have finally cracked the nut on
4 of these items.
Performing solid research and
making the right decisions as a
team, electrical testing can now be
made safer by the use of a new
type of multimeter leads, ensuring
the management of low and high

The FTC1 Bag Filter Replacement Campaign kicked off

on Tuesday the 30th August and has now been successfully completed.

This was the first campaign we have

undertaken ourselves since bringing
the task in-house and having had little
experience in doing this work before,
the new Small Filter Team and our
existing Emissions Control Team have
spent a significant amount of time
identifying hazards. The combined
teams have demonstrated some great
examples of Mates Looking after Mates throughout the entire campaign.

lenges, and an innovative jig design

has been conceptualised to eliminate 320 back bending activities per
Module.
An existing steel bin was modified in
-house with the support of Engineering and Bureau Veritas at the Central
Workshop eliminating the Pallet Lifting Jig that was previously used to
lower bags to the ground improving
suspended load stability. (Thanks to
Andrew OConnell, John Neill, Ken
Stock, Alex Deacon, Travis Hulm)

Numerous Safety concerns were identified from the adapted SOPs with
most of these Hazards now eliminated
or at least reduced by improved
methods and equipment.

In the end the result has been a

HUGE SUCCESS! Not only is FTC1 Filters running as they should, but the
once, inexperienced team, is now a
well oiled machine, very capable of
now carrying out this task.

It was awesome to observe the combined teamwork throughout the campaign to find more efficient and safer
ways to deliver the desired outcome.
A couple of the key improvements
include:

We have made safety step changes

and come up with some great innovations to improve the way we do
this work. All of this was done at a
significant cost reduction compared
to previous campaigns.

All gaps between the 2 East Platform

area and Building columns were covered to prevent the possibility of objects falling from height and new
stacking brackets were fabricated
and mounted to reduce trip hazards
and improve housekeeping.

A Big Thank You to the Campaign

Team (top left to bottom right)
Simon Bowles, Andrew Withers,
Jason Elliott, Adam Jolly, Payden
Hartley, Bradley Smith, Michael
Coughran, Jesse Swift, Travis Hulm,
and Ryan Johnson for the hard work
and effort put into this campaign.

Methods of assembling and deassembling of bags have been

changed to reduce ergonomic chal-

Our annual Spring Clean is on

again!

Thursday 13th October 2016

Focus this year will be the
internal operational areas!!