Safety in the Office
System
Helping our office staff and visitors work safely |
Understandably, companies in the oil and gas industry concentrate
safety efforts at production sites where the potential for serious
accidents is considerable. However, not doing as much as we could
for office-based staff leads to three main difficulties.
- People in the office get hurt which is costly in terms of anguish,
time and reputation.
- Office-based colleagues perceive (wrongly) that management
doesn't care for them and this may lead to the attitude "so
why should we care about safety".
- Offshore colleagues see "one rule for us and another
for them" and this is just one additional excuse not
to follow safety rules offshore.
The trouble is that many onshore staff may not see the need for
a safety regime similar to an offshore one and may resent any "artificial
rules".
The Profit Improvers' Safety in the Office System provides a nine-point
approach to helping office colleagues and visitors work even more
safely.
Here's how:
- A carefully thought out and clearly expressed plan for introducing
initiative.
- Draft (you can amend) card for visitors and contracts to be
issued at reception.
- Draft (you can amend) eight-page safety booklet aimed at staff
and contractors.
- Draft scrip for reception staff to use when visitors and contractors
sign in.
- Draft (you can amend) 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.
- Short 1.5-hour interactive discussion sessions for staff showing
just how easy it is to get hurt in the office and at home.
- Draft simple awareness building Onshore safety observation
system.
- Explicit demonstration that managers do care a bout the safety
of office-based staff.
- A marrying of offshore and onshore efforts.
- A reduction in incidents in offices.
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| Testimonials |
Dear Bill
Thank you for delivering the Advanced Safety Workshops
to just over 500 personnel on our drilling sites and with senior
colleagues on the beach. The feedback from all was good with 96%
of participants rating the workshops "very worthwhile" or "worthwhile".
We have seen a marked change in behaviours, albeit that it has
taken a year to achieve. Your input has been a contributor to our
success in this area.
R. D. Miller, Drilling Manager
Talisman Energy UK
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Bill
The advanced safety and communication skills workshop
for Amerada Hess and our contractors was very well received. The
interactive nature of the event got people involved. The idea of
the pre-workshop exercise helped people to focus on just why we
do things we know we shouldn't with regards to safety.
Andy Child, Well Operations Manager
Amerada Hess.
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