PPI’s HSE Manager, Guy Lawrence, played a brilliant game of Yut during the annual office Christmas party, resulting in him winning the grand prize.

Lorro’s starring role (in assisting his team to lose the game in a comprehensive fashion) was acknowledged by all present as worthy of the award. He professed his excitement in looking forward to a battle of wits with his new Smart TV!

As a major contractor to Origin Energy Eraring for the recent Unit 4 Outage and Station Outage, PPI demonstrated commitment to the “One Team” philosophy by awarding prizes for safety performance open to employees of all companies involved in the outages.

Congratulations to the following winners:

• Stuart Kipp (PPI) – awarded for consistent good management of a confined space work area and activities, and regular suggestions for improvements.
• Darren Stashinsky and Darragh Lynch (SNK) – awarded for good planning, communication, setup and execution of hot works in the midst of extremely high pedestrian and vehicular traffic area of 2 other contractor companies.
• Jackson McLean (Mightylagg)  – awarded for stopping work in a confined space and initiating improved communication. This initiative also led to identifying and avoiding a significant problem later (unforeseen at the time).
• Roger Capararo (PPI) – awarded for consistent high quality On Job Risk Assessments relating to mobile crane work under challenging and continuously changing circumstances.

Our new workshop, located at Berkeley Vale on the NSW Central Coast, is nearing completion. We are in the process of relocating all current activities to this site, and expect this to be completed by end of 2018.

PPI have engaged the services of SAI Global to provide 3rd party certification of our Integrated Management System. We have applied for certification of

PPI has successfully achieved 3RD PARTY CERTIFICATION of our company management systems.

SAI Global completed the certification audit during August 2013, and provided certification of our Integrated Management System (IMS) effective for 3 years from 27th August 2013. The IMS is now certified under the following standards:

AS/NZS 4801:2001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System (certificate No:HSM40119)

ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (certificate No:EMS40094)

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (certificate No:QMS40194)

This is the culmination of more than18 months work, and a significant milestone for PPI. The extensive work involved, particulary from Mark Ritchie (Management Systems Coodinator) and Guy Lawrence (Safety Manager), has created a proud achievement for the management and employees of PPI.