Center of Excellence: Leveraging Data to Reduce Incidents on Offshore Oil and Gas Assets

Le Ronan Bayon, Leah Boyd
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This paper presents a novel approach to finding solutions to unsafe work practices in oil and gas environments—from manufacturing facilities to offshore platforms. The ‘Center of Excellence’ approach is a stepwise process for classifying safety events and harnessing data to reduce incidents during offshore oil and gas E&P activities. The approach includes identifying focus topics related to unsafe practices, forming cross-functional teams with significant field or impacted personnel participation, developing and implementing measures, utilizing the hierarchy of controls to mitigate the issue, and raising company-wide awareness through training and targeted information campaigns. The Center of Excellence process gives top priority to those activities in order to reduce the highest severity and most frequent safety incidents. The teams are then able to more clearly identify feasible solutions, including engineering controls, training, campaigns, and procedures to contain the hazards. The active engagement and involvement of frontline employees who either work in the field or on the factory floor is critical to understand the daily hazards of their work activities and the success of the Center of Excellence approach. With these employees acting as a champion of the developed solution, other workers are more likely to accept and adopt it in their daily routine. This paper reviews practical examples of how the Center of Excellence approach has led to safer practices in the workplace. Examples include improved safety measures for using tightening tools, which led to more than 50% reduction in hand injuries and other safety incidents. A recent example of using the approach to develop safer practices during manual handling of loads (MHL) is also presented. The examples highlight the benefits of bringing multifaceted teams and multiple industry-accepted safety concepts together to resolve common work safety challenges, which can serve as a blueprint for oil and gas companies to reduce incidents across their enterprise.
卓越中心:利用数据减少海上油气资产事故
本文提出了一种新的方法来寻找石油和天然气环境中不安全工作实践的解决方案,从制造设施到海上平台。“卓越中心”方法是一个逐步分类安全事件和利用数据来减少海上油气勘探开发活动中的事故的过程。该方法包括确定与不安全实践相关的焦点主题,组建具有重要领域或受影响人员参与的跨职能团队,制定和实施措施,利用控制层次来缓解问题,并通过培训和有针对性的信息活动提高全公司的意识。卓越中心流程优先考虑这些活动,以减少最严重和最频繁的安全事故。然后,团队能够更清楚地确定可行的解决方案,包括工程控制、培训、活动和控制危险的程序。无论是在现场工作还是在工厂车间工作的一线员工的积极参与,对于了解他们工作活动的日常危害和卓越中心方法的成功至关重要。由于这些员工是已开发解决方案的拥护者,其他员工更有可能在日常工作中接受并采用它。本文回顾了卓越中心方法如何在工作场所带来更安全实践的实际例子。例如,改进了使用紧固工具的安全措施,使手部受伤和其他安全事故减少了50%以上。最近的一个例子,使用该方法开发更安全的做法,在人工处理负载(MHL)也提出。这些例子强调了将多方面的团队和多种行业公认的安全概念结合起来解决共同的工作安全挑战的好处,这可以作为石油和天然气公司减少整个企业事故的蓝图。
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