Quality Control of 3rd Party Inspections

Houston Forum 2017

Al Browning Rowan

Al spoke on the strategy that Rowan has incorporated to drive their dropped object management system. A critical element of this was identifying the hazards within the current state of their fleet, and while the company has made the decision to have an internal, DROPS focused audit team, 3rd parties were hired for immediate evaluation. Historically, what most 3rd party DROPS audits will provide is a list and pictures of everything that was not compliant, but Rowan took the time to cover their standards and expectations with the inspectors and work with them to get down to the root cause of deficiencies. This provides not only an actionable list, but an effective look at the implementation of the program from an outside perspective.