Safety Briefing

Fifteen ways to help people work even more safely and to reduce "silly" production errors

What more can we do to ensure people don’t get hurt and people don’t make silly mistakes that cause plant shutdowns?

Your people have been well trained, they’re intelligent and they’re diligent. You’ve probably supplied the best equipment you know of and you have the many procedures in place demanded by law and good practice.

It’s understandable if you think that to get further gains in safety the effort you’ll have to spend vast amounts of money and time.

This is definitely not the case!

Here are 15 practical, straightforward ways in which Profit Improvers has been helping people and organisations improve their safety even more. There is much more information available so just click on the links.

1. Behavioural Safety Workshops
   A powerful, short, four-hour workshop onshore or offshore for a maximum of fifteen people of mixed disciplines and ranks. Extensive discussion with no lectures and no slides helps people become hyperaware, hyperfocussed and hypercourageous.

2. An Even Better Safety Culture
   A one-day workshop especially designed to uncover hidden obstacles to an even greater safety culture – and then overcome them. A pre-workshop exercise gets people thinking before the workshop and the resulting handout saves time and generates discussion immediately. A quick and enjoyable way to improve the safety culture on a rig, platform or site.

3. Safety Risk Tolerance Survey and Workshop
   Each participant is asked to choose the safest option from 15 unsafe scenarios in a short survey. The survey is done in people’s own time, returned by freepost and scored. This is followed by a half-day workshop. A book with all the "best options" is supplied after the workshop.

4. So You Think You’re a Brilliant Safety Leader?
   This one-day workshop will help managers and supervisors do even more to protect their people. Not many people know about the behavioural factors that cause accidents. Consequently, many managers and supervisors unknowingly contribute to people not doing what they KNOW they should do.

5. Safety in the Office
   Nine small and linked steps help office staff and visitors work safely. After discussion with you and a review of existing office-based safety, Profit Improvers supplies practical and simple induction cards, safety booklet (eight-pages) and a script for reception staff to use when visitors and contractors sign in. Other parts of the system are a poster message from the most senior manager on site to be displayed in reception, training of reception staff to greet people with the best possible safety message, brief training of secretarial staff (and others) who come to collect visitors to reinforce the safety message as they are walking to the meeting venue, a short 1.5-hour interactive discussion session for staff showing just how easy it is to get hurt in the office and at home and a simple awareness building onshore safety observation system.

6. Re-energise your Safety Observation System (SOS)
   Many safety observation systems have become moribund and are not working as well as they could be. It is straightforward to re-energise your SOS. Simplify the existing reporting and recording system procedure and then in a 1.5-hour workshop coach people on the right way to deal with unsafe/safe observations. There’s NO need for long and drawn out sessions with videos and workbooks!

7. Reducing Human Error Shutdowns
   This three-hour workshop onshore or offshore, uses case studies of human error shutdowns to develop more awareness. There are no lectures and no slides. The case studies show participants the four main cause of human error and we work on finding ways to overcome them. After the workshops a strategic approach is taken to get more experienced people to mentor those less experienced on a particular plant. There is a self-study option.

8. How to Facilitate Your Own Behavioural Safety Workshops
   A one-day workshop for HSE advisers, OIMs, managers and consultants to enable them to be behavioural safety facilitators. The theory and process behind the 4-hour Behavioural Safety Workshops is explained in detail. Templates are provided on disc for participants to use when they do their own workshops. This workshop is a good career move for safety professionals and managers will know the right questions to ask of consultants.

9. How to Facilitate Your Own Better Safety Culture Workshops
   A one-day workshop for HSE advisers, OIMs, managers and consultants to enable them to find out for themselves if there are any deep seated safety issues and then find ways to overcome them. The process behind the one-day An Even Better Safety Culture workshops is explained in detail and templates are provided on disc.

10. How to Facilitate Your Own Safety Risk Tolerance Workshops
    In just one day you can learn how to facilitate your own half-day Safety Risk Tolerance workshops. Find out why each of the "best options" to the 15 unsafe scenarios is the best and learn how, with extended discussion, to bring out the deeper safety lessons. Knowing how to facilitate these workshop enables you to conduct them when you choose and builds a bond between you and the workforce.

11. How to Facilitate Your Own Human Error Reduction Workshops
    Aimed at managers and consultants, this half-day workshop explains how to select case studies, how to write them in a way that maximises discussion and how expose for people the main causes of human error shutdowns. Knowing how to facilitate your own workshops enables you to conduct them when you like and as often as you like. This not only saves on costs and delays; it gives you deeper insight into how your people think and enables immediate clearing up of any misunderstandings.

12. Becoming An Even Better HSE Adviser
    What are HSE advisers really supposed to be doing? What do our internal customers want from us? What obstacles hinder me doing the best job possible? How can HSE Advisers show that they are adding considerable value? These are just some of the questions we’ll answer. Participants will come away with renewed vigour for their role sand some actions to enhance job satisfaction.

13. Becoming A Brilliant Safety Representative
    This exciting and practical workshop lasts two days and concentrates on all the interpersonal, communication, negotiation and thinking skills needed to represent the safety concerns of others. The dry legal and safety system content is provided in pre-workshop exercises (the equivalent of two-days work) in a workbook. Survey.

14. Brilliant Risk Assessments
    In one day you’ll learn very practical and straightforward ways to assess risks and thereby reduce the chance of people in your team getting hurt. Some of the topics covered are: Safety Case Formal Risk Assessments, Preparing for a Risk Assessment, The Five Steps to Risk Assessment, The Use of Checklists, Hierarchy of Controls, Who should carry our Risk Assessments and Record Keeping and cross referencing.

15. Better Accident Investigations
    A one-day very practical workshop Providing investigators with the knowledge and skills they need to ensure a brilliant investigation so that people do not get hurt from similar circumstances in the future. Topics covered include: The Accident Investigation Process, Fact Finding, Analyse of Findings: Causal Trees and The Investigation Report with recommendations