Health & Safety Report 2014

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2014

Our focus on improvement will continue with the review of the MIST standard; developing a common industry competence framework; confronting safety critical task competence and addressing the question of safety leadership in amajor accident hazard environment. We will also work to enhance our understanding andmanagement of human factors through the deployment of a new self-assessment toolkit.

Asset Integrity

To ensure that asset integrity issues are effectively managed across our industry, the Asset Integrity Steering Group (AISG) set the challenging target of sharing lessons from all hydrocarbon releases in an effort to continue to reduce unplanned hydrocarbon releases by 50 per cent over the next three years. These targets present a huge challenge and we must tackle the obstacles that prevent us sharing learning more effectively. In continuing thequest for continual improvement of safety standards andperformance,we candrawconfidence from our ability to reduce hydrocarbon releases by nearly half in the three-year period to March 2013; the overwhelming response to our workforce engagement survey; and the increased levels of engagement we’ve experienced in the last 12 months. 2014 will see a structural transformation of Step Change in Safety, built on a stronger organisational and constitutional model. Combined with a stronger ownership model, the constitution will provide a truly tripartite body that is working together to continuously improve our safety performance. We will also better define the interfaces with Oil & Gas UK to avoid duplication of effort. Step Change in Safety will continue to provide strong and sustainable leadership in health and safety to drive our shared goals. It is important that we maintain a simplified agenda, improve engagement at all levels and continue the focus on implementation, while recognising the growing number of members who are playing their part in our leadership team, steering groups and work groups.

For further details of Step Change in Safety’s 2013 activities and forward plans, please see the Step Change 2014 Annual Update 22 .

22 Step Change in Safety’s Annual Update is available to download at www.stepchangeinsafety.net/knowledgecentre/publications/publication.cfm/publicationid/112

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