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Mission – Behavioural Safety without the “Guru-Speak”

Reach zero incidents and accidents and STAY there longer, by making simple improvements to existing safety systems and by involving people in practical yet powerful behavioural safety workshops.

Working hard is good but work smart is better

Most people try hard for safety and know the right things to do. Therefore, lectures and shock tactics are not effective. Based on hard-won, real-life experience, we expose people to scenarios and case studies that make them think about their own behaviours. When you debate and think enough, you are confronted with your own resistance to doing what is right. This helps people change for the long term.

At Safety Improvers there is NO “guru-speak”. We have tools proven to be successful over the past fifteen years but we take the time to adapt them to your industry, your organisation and your people. We also make our sessions enjoyable – with hardly any slides!

For senior managers we give insights that go a bit deeper and explain the rationale behind behavioural safety.

The tools

At this website you’ll find a range of specific tools. However, they all fall under one of three headings:

Systems – we help you ensure that your permit to work, risk assessment and safety observations systems, for example, are working well.
Culture – we show people how to reduce the fear factor and have constructive safety conversations – this alone gives tremendous gains in safety behaviours
People – we have several ways of showing people how to avoid the six behavioural traps – from an intensive 4-hour workshop toa 90 – minute start-up meeting sessions and 45- minute talks for senior managers.

Our expert facilitators

Dr Bill Robb

Since 1995, using simple psychological approaches, Dr Bill has developed, perhaps more than any other individual or organisation, a range of innovative and unique practical behavioural safety tools that get to the heart of the matter. He devised the Behavioural Safety Workshop. In four hours this helps people become more aware, reduce unintentional pressure and fight the fear factor. He developed the Second Mind® technique for helping people to concentrate better at the worksite. He also thought out The Safety Risk Tolerance Survey that helps people assess whether or not their attitude to safety is likely to hurt them. Dr Bill founded and edits the free e-newsletter. Sign up at www.safetybriefing.com.

Bill particularly enjoys working with senior management teams to help them clarify their safety strategy and build safety into the business plan. He also enjoys the high-level debates with senior colleagues during which they come to realise what a powerful impact their behaviours can have on improving the safety culture in their organisations.

Colin Guy

Qualified as a Mechanical and Process Engineer, Colin has hands on experience in many different aspects of the oil and gas sector spanning 26 years. He has worked in UK, USA, Norway and Australia. An experienced HSEQ manager, his approach is steeped in the practicalities of the “coal-face” having been project manager of mobile

and fixed platform drilling, drilling package upgrades, new builds, refurbishments and drilling project upgrades.

Colin has been and is a chairman or member of several oil and gas industry workgroups. Colin works is equally at ease working with senior management teams and delivering workshops for “the troops”.

Stewart Risk BSc, CEng, FIMarEST

Stewart has exceptional safety management experience based on 30 years of practical coal-face engineering and strategic senior management roles. Working his way up from diver and engineer, he became Managing Director of Subsea Offshore Ltd and

then MD of DSND Subsea Uk Ltd both of which were consumed into Subsea 7. His passion and energy for health and safety as part of corporate culture has been widely recognised in the oil and gas and marine sectors.

Stewart became Vice President of SubSea7 and developed health and safety leadership management on a global basis. Stewart works with senior management teams to ensure all systems are in place and fit for purpose. He specialises in safety management systems and has considerable international experience as an audit team leader. He is able to give practical strategic safety advice that reduces risk and

improves the business.

Talisman

Piper B
Tartan
Claymore
Saltire
Flotta
Clyde

ConocoPhillips

Viking
LOGGS
Murdoch
Britannia
Judy
Threddlethorpe

Shell

Brent Alpha
Brent Bravo
Brent Charlie
Brent Delta
Halley
Mossmoran
St Fergus

Amerada Hess

Scott

Lundin/Petrofac

Thistle

Drilling rigs/ships

Ocean Princess
Santa Fe 135
Global Santa Fe Dada Gorgud
Noble Julie Robertson
Noble Al White
Noble Ton van Langevelt
Ensco 92
Ensco 80
Ensco 100
Ensco 102
Smedvig West Alpha
Smedvig West Navion
Dolphin Borgny
Dolphin Borgston
Dolphin Bredford
Drill Star
Maersk Innovator
Transocean J. W. McLean
Transocean Jack Ryan
Transocean 702
Maersk Curlew
Maesrk North Sea Producer
Maersk Janice
Rowan Gorilla V
Rowan Gorilla VII

Seismic Companies

Seabird Exploration
WesternGeco
PGS
Fugro