The Human Factors of Process Safety and Worker Empowerment in the Offshore Oil Industry Proceedings of a Workshop (2018) / Chapter Skim
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7 Current Systems for Worker Responses to Unsafe Conditions, Worker Interventions, and Reporting
7 Current Systems for Worker Responses to Unsafe Conditions, Worker Interventions, and Reporting
Pages 55-64
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(Knode) • The Aviation Safety Action Program provides a template that could be adapted to the offshore oil industry to reduce the unacceptably high number of fatalities that still occur in the industry.
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A workgroup was formed that included representatives from SPE, BSEE, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Center for Offshore Safety, the Ocean Energy Safety Institute, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, and the American Bureau of Shipping, as well as operators and service companies, to explore the benefits of and mechanisms for collaboration. The initiative involved approximately 2 years of meetings with about 18 industry representatives who reviewed options and benchmarked conditions both within and outside the industry.
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The scope was expanded following promulgation of the Well Control Rule in 2016 to capture regulatoryrequired equipment failure data. As a result of the summit, the next focus of SafeOCS was to explore a voluntary industry-wide safety data management framework. For more information about the SafeOCS Program, see https://www.safeocs.gov [May 2018]
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SOURCES: Created and presented by Joseph Leimkuhler at the workshop. Adapted from data obtained from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Website, the Helicopter Safety Advisory Conference Website, and the National Transportation Safety Board.
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is formed, with one member from each party (the carrier and the FAA plus an employee representative, usually a union representative) , and an ASAP manager not on the ERC reviews reports, enters the data to be analyzed, and sends appropriate reports to the ERC to be either accepted or rejected.
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He explained that the offshore oil industry has more players relative to aviation, including rig contractors, operators, service companies, and BSEE. But he suggested that ERCs could include representatives from all these players, and a petroleum safety action plan (PSAP)
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I wouldn't have to worry about investigation protocol and how that varies from rig to rig; it would all be fixed -- it would be consistent across the Gulf and across the industry. And if we were to do that, I honestly feel every employee would see and feel the same thing…if I report the incident/situation it will be addressed…and I do not have to worry about what happens to me." He ended by saying, "That's what I think we really need to see for empowerment -- a framework that we all operate within that's mandated by law." ENHANCING WORKER EMPOWERMENT IN REFINERIES IN CALIFORNIA Contra Costa County, which is across the bay from San Francisco and is home to about 1.4 million people, houses four oil refineries and a number of chemical facilities, noted Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.
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Sawyer identified employee participation as an important aspect of the program. He explained that the regulations state that "in consultation with employees and employee representatives, the owner or operator shall develop, implement and maintain a written plan to effectively provide for employee participation in Accidental Release Prevention elements." He reported that these plans include provisions that provide for the following: • Effective participation by affected operating and maintenance em ployees and employee representatives, throughout all phases, in performing process hazard analyses, damage mechanism reviews, hierarchy of control analyses, management of change, management of organizational changes, process safety culture assessments, inci dent investigations, safeguard protection analyses, and pre-startup safety reviews.
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He added that a qualified operator in charge of a unit needs to have the authority to shut down an operation or process partially or completely based on such a hazard. Shutting down a process is a "big thing," he acknowledged, but the program "gives employees more ability to take action." Finally, the moderator of the session, Christiane Spitzmueller, briefly mentioned the work done by the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America to collect safety culture data using the same questions and same survey instruments across the industry.
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