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14-10-2015

LOBO advanced platform system saves £3.5m and more at Pembroke oil refinery

Within the refinery, scaffolding is used to provide access for preventative and reactive maintenance, inspection and operational tasks. For the last 30 years this been provided by an out sourced scaffolding company, and with rising labour costs continues to account for an ever increasing expense year on year for Valero.
 
This has driven the site Refinery Services Department to completely review the scaffold and access requirements to identify safe and suitable lower cost alternative solutions to traditional scaffolding. During this research, the LOBO System was identified and a sample order, together with the approved training package, was purchased. Having received the LOBO System pilot order in 2013, a focus was placed to use it on all works, excluding the very high designed access applications.
 
The plan was to use the LOBO System for as many of the jobs on routine maintenance that require working at height as is possible; it was estimated that as much as 75% of works needed a platform height of 4 metres/15 Feet or below.
 
The LOBO System can be assembled without the use of any tools in minutes, safely and to any shape or size and is not reliant on the scaffolding company to return and remove the systems after the maintenance task has been completed, which can increase hire costs.

LOBO Systems, Manager Director, Robert Bokros comments “The huge cost savings derived from the use of the LOBO System, has once again been proved beyond doubt and we advise any oil refineries who wish to reduce their labour costs to adopt our product.”

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