Dear Service managers
I think you understand that our BU management had no other choice but to instruct us to pull back all resources from site because we cannot under any circumstances afford to endanger another life whilst performing our duties on site. This off course could have a lot of impact on our customers and we want to make the next steps known to you
1. Message to customers
Where required, you as service manager have to personally contact those customers who require an explanation of why we are pulling back the resources and explain to them that we have had a serious incident recently in one of the countries and we require a 1 day HSE training with all our field service engineers and technicians in order to go through all the lessons learned and conduct some emergency training. We prefer that the communication be kept verbal at this stage but if any written messages need to go the customer then it needs to be reviewed by your LBU manager and Country service manager before being sent to the customer.
2. How to handle critical jobs
We do understand that there may be certain jobs where we have to do a controlled pull back of resources because it may cause a bigger risk to the customer to pull our resources from site immediately. For these jobs, you have to firstly inform me which jobs they are with a small description of the job and then mobilize immediately a HSE representative to site to oversee the job and ensure that our people are working safely on site. For certain other critical jobs being performed on oil rigs etc, please discuss with me directly and we can agree a solution.
3. How to handle people who are working outside the country
Please ask them to go back to the hotel or ABB office and await further instructions from you. They do not need to demobilize and return home.