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Save the most challenging worksite for last
Antti Puuska, who began working at Fingrid’s predecessor, Imatran Voima, in 1976, discusses how substation construction has changed over the last decades.
17.3.2022
Antti Puuska, who began working at Fingrid’s predecessor, Imatran Voima, in 1976, discusses how substation construction has changed over the last decades.
Fingrid’s safety theme for 2022 is “Occupational safety is created by individuals and teams”.
During the coronavirus pandemic, efforts are being made to avoid contact. However, this has not prevented Fingrid from safely arranging worksite audits and safety walks. The prevailing situation has also encouraged us to experiment with virtual worksite visits.
In spring, Fingrid initiated a project aiming to improve the safety of employees working at height at substations. The objective is to find areas for improvement in structures that can be climbed for trials and identify good practices for working at height.
Fingrid has ten reserve power plants storing large quantities of fuel oil. Contingencies must be in place in the event of an accident when hazardous chemicals are stored in large amounts. Training exercises took place at the Naantali reserve power plant in 2020 to test the functionality of the fire extinguishing systems.
In late 2020, an employee was injured after falling off a work machine at the Kontiolahti–Palojärvi transmission line worksite. Significant improvements were made to the machines as a result of the accident.
Fingrid’s occupational safety campaign for 2021 emphasises the importance of work planning and foresight. No matter how confident we are with our work, we should always check the conditions and assess the risks before we start. We collected some examples of methodical approaches to work and situations
requiring special attention on our worksites.
The safety theme for 2021 is “Think before you act!” writes Karri Koskinen.
The working environment, conditions and planning of the work itself largely determine whether the work can be done safely. If occupational safety is not taken into consideration during the planning phase, it is often very challenging to do the work safely. For example, think about the process of constructing a building from prefabricated elements. If occupational safety is overlooked during the planning and design phases, what is the chance of the building going up safely? Probably fairly low.
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