EDO, GNBS host hazard control training for offshore operations

El Dorado Offshore (EDO) in partnership with the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) hosted a three-day forum focusing on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP). The training, which commenced on Wednesday and concluded on Friday, was designed to provide participants with the required knowledge to implement quality assurance in safe food preparation for human consumption.

The three-day programme provided an understanding of the HACCP System in controlling food safety hazards on offshore vessels. This system allows employees to implement measures to effectively monitor and control food safety hazards from the beginning to the end of their operations at sea.

The sessions were conducted by Al Fraser, Technical Officer within the Conformity Assessment Department of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards, a Global Certified Quality Management System Auditor. It targeted cooks, recruited by El Dorado Offshore who will be attached to the Chouest vessels, leaving shores in the following week.

EDO is currently recruiting Guyanese to work in the looming local oil and gas sector. These recruits will be trained and certified by EDO who remains committed to identifying locals, building capacities and ensuring the right opportunities are afforded to the best suited candidates.

In October 2016, fourteen Guyanese were selected, medically certified, trained and inducted to the post of Ordinary Seaman/Riggers with the support of ExxonMobil, Edison Chouest and the Guyana Government. Ever since, these locals have worked on board Chouest vessels in support of the ExxonMobil drilling campaign in Guyana. Give that the recruits have already projected outstanding performance EDO and Chouest intend on doubling the number of Guyanese on board Chouest vessels by April 2017.

This therefore provides another avenue of employment for Guyanese within impending oil industry.