HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2014
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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
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