1. According to SCH-A.5.3, "Except as may be otherwise provided in Schedule "B", CONTRACTOR shall protect from damage all existing structures, improvements or utilities at or near the WORK Site, and shall repair and restore any damage thereto resulting from CONTRACTOR's failure to exercise reasonable care in protecting the same during CONTRACTOR's performance of the WORK.  If CONTRACTOR fails or refuses to promptly repair any such damage, SAUDI ARAMCO may perform such repairs, or have them performed by others.  Paragraph 15.2 shall control with respect to CONTRACTOR's financial liability arising from or related to such damage."//2. SAPMT has repeated requested ICC to provide a method statement showing as to how ICC shall conduct detection surveys to ensure protection of underground utiltities, alongwith the equipments to be used for detection, which ICC has failed to provide..//3. The subject incident report is limited to the day of the incident, but does not mention that a backhoe was used at this location previously without a detection survey and such action could have struck the pipe and was aggravated by repeated vibration of passing HE vehicles atop that metal pipe. //4. Review the corrective actions in the 1st incident of this nature in order to see which of them are being implemented.// 5. Show that toolbox talks include a discussion about such incidents.//6. Convene a meeting between concern supevisors, witnesses if any, Safety and the Project Manager to finalize your action plan to prevent recurrence and provide to SAPMT your course of action/ method statement to avoid such incidents in future.//7. The longitudinal nature of the project at the perimeter of a highly sophistacted establishment demands ICC to exercise utmost duty of care during execution of the project, meeting all safety and quality standards.
