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Health & Safety During Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a variety of effects on During COVID-19, JPL has strengthened its ability to
JPL units, though generation of power has been maintain supply security, increase system flexibility, and
maintained throughout since power generation falls better integrate its power hardware in order to be more
under the critical services category. However, in the successful in the face of possible threats to energy
absence of industrial demand, thermal power plants are security for ensuring significant, continuous and
operating at low capacity, but the share of renewables on consistent power supply.
the grid has been growing, owing to their ‘must run’
status.

Case Study: 2021 JPL Planned Outage

Major outage was successfully completed for 45 days from • Hand washing and sanitisation facilities were established at
February 15 to March 31, 2021, without any influence from various locations in the plant
COVID-19, despite an additional 2,200 people being brought in
from various regions around the country to execute the task.
• Additional temporary dining areas with drinking water
Some of the key proactive measures implemented include: facility were established at four locations to ensure safe
distancing in light of COVID-19
• Quarantine of outage contract manpower for eight days
before entry to the plant
• Additional toilet facilities established at Boiler ground floor
and 17-meter elevation
• Mandatory COVID-19 RT-PCR negative test report before gate
entry
• Additional rest room with toiler facility was established near
Boiler 50-meter elevation to avoid frequent movement of
• COVID-19 RT-PCR testing facility was established near Gate 1
crew from Boiler to ground floor while giving them space to
relax and eat
• COVID-19 RT-PCR testing was done for ~ 2200 individual who
were part of the contract workforce before entry. Besides this,
during execution phase, RT-PCR testing of working crew was The safe execution of the outage was HSSE management's top
conducted on random basis responsibility, with a special emphasis on ensuring HSSE
compliance during the planning and implementation of outage
activities. In fact, about 588,708 hours were spent on this outage,
• Thermal screening of all workers was ensured prior to plant
entry which was concluded with ‘Zero L.T.I’ and no severe issues.
This was Unit 1's first major overhaul since its commissioning in
• Use of mask was made mandatory for everyone 2012, and it included a thorough assessment of the HIP-LP
turbines, as well as the boiler and various auxiliaries, and the
FGD equipment. We were able to complete outage activities
• Awareness through public announcement system and display within 41 days i.e., on March 27, 2021, which was ahead of
of signages
schedule. After dynamic balancing of turbine generator, outage
was completed on March 31, 2021 within the schedule of 45 days,
• Regular sanitisation of office premises, site locations and thanks to rigorous planning and preparation for over a year and
residential areas was carried out effective monitoring of execution.