Enhancing Safety Culture through Changing the Mindset : Business Partners' HSE Performance: Practical Evaluation, Benchmarking & Path to Improvement

Achieving excellent HSE performance is one of the main objectives of any industry, especially by High Hazard or Major Accident Hazardous (MAH) industries. Considering various national and global market demands, Oil & Gas industry must be ready to embark on challenging scenarios. To ensure such challenges are successfully addressed, the role of business partners (Business Partners) is very much vital and important as many projects are to be executed to achieve the set objects/targets safely. In many organizations, HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) or HSSE (Health, Safety, Security and Environment) has been considered as one of the strategic objectives. In order to achieve such objectives, moving together with Business Partners (Contractors) bring lot of importance. In addition, this makes organizations to uphold a safe work environment at the work sites that demands and expects collaboration and support from the Business Partners who are on board as well as who will be on board with the respective organizations. Considering the dynamic challenges, achieving and sustaining excellent HSE performance is very essential, specifically in High or Major Accident Hazardous (MAH) industries such as Oil & Gas. Such industry who is having Business Partners from various countries, having multi-nationals as work force gives challenge to ensure Organization's HSE expectations are understood and implemented.