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Simplification could be
industry changing. It could
save time, money and
most importantly give a
safer outcome.
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Simplicity in safety
To ensure consistent and efficient safety processes both onshore and offshore,
Step Change in Safety’s Simplification Steering Group is leading work to identify
and eliminate unnecessary duplication.
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learns more from
executive director Les Linklater
Q: How is Step Change in Safety delivering
Simplification?
A:
In the first set of deliverables, new processes for Toolbox
Talks (TBT) and Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA), as well
as a Single Observation Card (OBS) with prompts and hazard
icons, were deemed to be the least contentious and as such
the most feasible in terms of visible first steps.
The steering group (chaired by Erik-Jan Bijvank of Stork and
Kate Simpson of ConocoPhillips), supported by trade unions
and the Health and Safety Executive, created two working
groups – Tools and Processes (chaired by Simon Miller of
Wood Group PSN and Andy Robb of Centrica) and
Pilot Site and Engagement (chaired by Deborah McBeath of
Amec Foster Wheeler and Kevin Bayne of TAQA).
The
Tools and Processes
group analysed current industry
documentation for TBT and DRA and investigated practices
used in other industries, such as the military, police and fire
services. It became clear that new processes for all three
Q: What is Simplification?
A:
Step Change in Safety’s drive to simplify, engage and
sustain was a strategic output from our annual planning day in
2014, in response to a recognition that as an industry we were
moving into a different cost environment.
Simplification is the standardisation of common elements
of the oil and gas industry’s control of work system, which
in time will fulfil the expectation of process simplification.
The common elements were derived in principle from the
components of the Minimum Industry Safety
Training (MIST).
Q: How did Simplification come about?
A:
The steering group undertook the need to address permit
process simplification raised by the workforce through strong
alignment with Oil & Gas UK’s Efficiency Task Force and
further endorsed as an outcome from the Energy Jobs
Task Force’s Shared Principles and Values event in
May 2015.
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