Worksite safety: GrDF and Waters of Normandy slaughter their cards ...

Not a day without aggression! This is what emerges from the statistics provided by Gas Distribution Network France (GrDF) and Waters of Normandy. Each business day, pipelines are damaged or gutted on the networks of two operators at intervention sites. For reaching the target Zero, an agreement between the two operators has been signed. Cooperation, training and common sense ...
Aggression! Is a strong word, but this term sums up the feelings of the two operators in damage to the works under their management. Attacks which are not the result of incivility but of irresponsibility professionals uninformed or unconcerned about the regulation. "Once a company has to do road work, it must ensure that there is no network in the vicinity of any manager whatsoever. Then, just before starting its work, it must send to each manager identified a DICT (Declaration of Intent to commencement of work). This is what the law says, but in fact this is not always respected. With, the key to all the risks that we know, "said Bruno Gasquy, director of the Gas Network Unit Normandy.

"The first argument used by these companies is the lack of time". A false debate, said Jean-Christophe Famel, deputy CEO of Waters of Normandy, in terms of lost time and the risks it poses to the property and people not respecting the regulations. "Especially since there are specialized websites for these applications ..." says Jean-Christophe Famel.

This is evoking these common issues that the two companies decided to think together about how to reduce drastically, these inconveniences are not without consequences for investment. Thus, each month, GrDF spends a whopping $ 1 million only for those aspects of prevention and safety facilities (10,726 km network in Normandy, 300 employees, 7,580 km of monitored by 2 vehicles "sniffers").