Case Study: Arabian Drilling Company Schlumberger

• ADC is the largest drilling company in Saudi Arabia. It has a huge consumption of different type of gloves, and especially, impact gloves. When the Ansell Guardian® team met with ADC’s HSE Manager for the first time, it was said that ADC was facing an issue on quality for their impact gloves and had very limited knowledge about other types of protection needed for each rig.
• Ansell explained to HSE management how relevant Ansell Guardian® expertise could be regarding safety hand protection and highlighted the benefit of the Guardian Risk Assessment.
• Ansell had actively engaged with ADC HSE management on Ansell Guardian® assessment and succeeded to schedule a first Guardian test on one onshore drilling rig. This first assessment was totally successful and enabled the performance of three more assessments over the next three months.

ANSELL GUARDIAN® SOLUTIONS

• Following several meetings and presentations to top managers at ADC’s head office in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Ansell was invited to undertake the Ansell Guardian® assessment on four different on-shore rigs as a key tool to assist in the overall safety improvement program.

• Following the success of the first Guardian assessment, ADC requested Ansell to conduct more assessments across Saudi Arabia on different types of rigs (oil-based mud and water-based mud).

• The Ansell team spent a total of four full days conducting audits on four different on-shore drilling rigs in September and November 2015.

• The recommendations were presented to a larger audience of ADC’s management from various functions in September 2015.

• ADC management appreciated the expertise provided through the Guardian assessments.

• Product trials followed in October 2015 and five Ansell products, HyFlex® 11-840, ActivArmr® 97-120, Activ Armr® 46-551, AlphaTec® 58-535W and WorkGuard™ 43-216, were approved by ADC crews and then by ADC HSE management.

• The implementation phase incorporated discussions with ADC Safety and Procurement functions to accurately reject phasing and sizing split, further strengthening the Ansell end user relationship and thus neutralizing the distributor’s influence.

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