Transcript Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety Mission and Vision

Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety
Mission and Vision Statements:
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Contractor Alliance for Pipeline Safety (CAPS) exists to identify and articulate the safety-related
needs of the contractor community and to partner with The Dow Chemical Company’s Gulf
Coast Pipeline organization to jointly improve contractor safety performance.
The goal is to provide all contractor companies doing business with Dow’s Gulf Coast Pipeline a
forum that allows adequate sharing of EH&S purposes, expectations, strategies, incentives, and
results of the community of contractors working at the Dow Gulf Coast Pipeline site.
In return, members are asked to provide ongoing commitment to CAPS’ goals and philosophy.
As a result, the expectation is that safety performance with Dow Chemical's Gulf Coast Pipeline
organization will continue to improve.
CAPS is an enabling organization whereas contractors embrace the concept that through the
use of new and creative approaches to safety, coupled with consistent application of proven
existing processes, committed contractors working together can make safety happen.
CAPS Goals and Actions:
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CAPS will involve all labor providers that work in Dow Gulf Coast Pipeline.
The CAPS organization will be directed by a chairman and associate chairman on a yearly
basis, elected by the membership..
CAPS expectations will be communicated to all Dow Gulf Coast Pipeline labor providers.
CAPS will support the training and auditing of the STAC process (Safe Task Analysis Card).
CAPS will support Dow Chemical’s sharing monthly with the membership the quality of their
employees’ STAC participation.
CAPS will develop committees to research and recommend to the organization certain actions
in areas of safety performance that will eliminate accidents and incidents (committees may
include actions concerning “repeaters”,
“at-risk workers”, motor vehicles, and safety processes,
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