In November 2024, teams across LTA Autecon’s Oil & Gas coastal region celebrated World Quality Week with the theme ‘Quality: From Compliance to Performance’. This theme emphasises the shift from merely meeting compliance standards, to driving performance through a strong and entrenched culture of quality.
Assistant Site Manager Fadiel Meyer, who participated along with many of his colleagues, supports this initiative, as celebrating World Quality Week helps to embed a mindset which motivates LTA Autecon’s people to innovate, collaborate and improve. This echoes and reinforces the company’s own well-known operational ethos and motto ‘Home without harm, everyone everyday’.
“It is vital to ensure that our teams are constantly sensitised to – and aware of – the need for quality in all that they do. It is also important to utilise these initiatives to celebrate the work our teams do, and to show them our appreciation. Our people take these initiatives to heart!” he enthuses.
Celebrating quality through creativity and collaboration
At LTA Autecon, the practice of celebrating World Quality Week began in 2020. In 2024, it became a uniquely coastal initiative at four of the LTA Oil and Gas sites, in which teams were encouraged to proactively contribute ideas, take ownership and drive quality performance across all projects. The initiative was driven by two of the company’s Quality Co- ordinators: Dean Pierce in KwaZulu-Natal and Randal Jacks in Cape Town.