Sharlene Rampersad
Paria's Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator, Paul Yearwood says the company awarded the contract to LMCS to conduct work on its pipelines at Berth 6 before reviewing the method statements and risk assessments.
Ryan Nanton, described as an HSE specialist for Paria by Yearwood, was tasked with reviewing the statements to identify any risks that the job may present.
Yearwood confirmed that at no point in time, the potential of a Delta P situation was identified in the review.
Counsel to the Commission, senior counsel Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj questioned both Yearwood and Nanton’s qualifications to identify the possibility of the differential pressure.
Maharaj questioned how either Nanton or Yearwood could be considered competent to review the documents submitted by LMCS when neither had the competency to perform the job.
The Commission’s chairman, King’s Counsel, Jerome Lynch interjected, telling Yearwood if LMCS had been wrong in their risk assessment, then both Yearwood and Nanton would be wrong in their assessments of the documents.
Yearwood is the first witness to give testimony before the Commission this morning as it continues its fact-finding exercise into the February 25 tragedy which lead to the deaths of four men, Yusuf Henry, Fyzal Kurban, Rishi Nagassar and Kazim Ali Junior.