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World Oilfield Forum
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Permalink Reply by Inger Lise Monsen on The problem is not the safety people, it is when your company officially tells you to do things "this way" and then the personnel on site expects you to continue doing the same things "the easy way".
One should think the main goal would be to make theory (with all the procedures) and real life work fit into the same truth about how things should be done. In such a setting the safety personnel looks like idiots just because of the company´s mixed official and unofficial policy.. Unfortunately.
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Permalink Reply by Bobby Smith on I just got a job as a safety man in PA. I broke out with Sacndrill 8 years ago slinging tongs and digging ditches and have busted my butt every day since. And I fully believe that safety programs and safety personnel are a necessary tool in today's oilfield, we are not there to be cops. We are there to implement and enforce programs that make sure everyone goes home safely. We can't save them all but if I can save one life, limb or even if I can save one kid one finger then my presence is justified
Permalink Reply by Peter Aird on Safety is the control of all accident loss.
'Lets not hurt anyone today' in fact outdated in the 60's e.g. by companies who make Aeroplanes!
Facts: 95% of all accidents are non-injury related. (The majority of these (90%) I would challenge don't get reported nor investigated).
As a consequence several (non injury related accidents) chain together where often the end result is where people really get hurt, e.g. as recent events show.
The next time bomb already dormant, lying waiting the chain of safety issues are addressed!
These events simply do not happen but are caused, causes that can be managed and controlled.
Bottom line therefore is that oilfield management is failing, and need to change their safety ways like other industrys have done.
Safety reps hired to looking at nipped fingers, trip, slips and falls are thus a wasted resource.
Such safety should be left to people's individual role and responsibility. Most of us grew up in this environment and have thus had an accident free life. Because no one goes to work to intentionally hurt themselves or others. It's all about personal responsibility?
Safety leader are needed however, they should be properly trained to investigate all accidents and all the real safety issues that are costing this business jobs, lives and its reputation?
because our industry is far from as safe as it could be, we are not efficient and at times not very effective. The management structure causes us to be cyclic, revolve vs evolve.
Drilling however is all about safety, it how we look and address safety that is for me the issue.
Bottom line is that we therefore need everyone to be a safety rep.
Managers and supervisors however particularly need to raise the bar and focus on the real issues behind our industry's accidental loss events misfortunes.
Which as previously stated simply do not simply happen. All accidents are caused!
Where our drilling industry is an industry where the next big accident is waiting to happen until management change the safety bar.
Permalink Reply by DeeperCheaper on This discussion can be related to the Deep Water Horizon/BP disaster that just occurred offshore GOM and is still ongoing. You will find out sooner or later that they could have spent more time or money and possibly averted this disaster.
You can always spend more money and make things safer. You can always go slower and make things safer.
There is a balance somewhere, like a fence. You can jump the fence and graze in the wrong pasture, but sooner or later you will hang some junk on the top wire and get caught.
You will see, over time, a direct correlation between no accidents or no LTA's and money.
When the company man is threatened by perceived non-performance, he will try to build a fire under the drilling contractor's personnel.
If they respond, and they probably will, they will ram and cram to 'git 'er done'. There will be a wreck sooner or later.
But the root cause is money. If the operator hires a consultant/drilling foreman that is dumber than a box of rocks and so ego bound that he can't listen and so spineless that he can't tell the junior engineer in the office to take a flying free-for-all at a rolling doughnut, then he (the dreaded company man) will try to get more performance from the drilling contractor, and everyone wants us to be happy, so we start taking shortcuts.
The toolie, or the driller on the brake can tell the aforementioned consultant/company man to take a flying free-for-all at a rolling doughnut, but they now put their position/job in jeopardy. So they try to perform........
It is an infinite loop.
Because the money isn't there, the drilling contractor has hired some dope heads standing outside Wal-Mart as floor hands. They don't know snowflakes from brown shoe polish, so whoever tells them to do whatever it's gonna get done....sooner or later.
It starts at the top and the poor bstds at the bottom get hurt.
Am I glad I'm a company man? No......wish I'd gone to school a few years and become a lawyer.....
As a civil tort lawyer you can criticize, condemn, and suck the life blood out of well-intentioned people who were courageous enough to go into an independent business under the protection of our flag and our values.......who were brave enough to straddle the fence without concern for their junk.....
Safety is directly correlated to the intelligence and diligence of the folks from top to bottom....
The less money available to dig, the dumber we get on the rig.....
Deeper
Permalink Reply by Jo Ann Rayburn on As a site safety professional I've worked days on end with no days off, watching my crew members look disheartened and beaten, often time promised days off that don't come through. It was in times like these that I remember fondly when my crew had my back, making sure I didn't miss anything and brought it to my attention when working SIMOPS with other contractors. ~ I look back at those days when I was so beaten down with the same old routine that I'd come in thinking: "I've got to incorporate a pep rally into my safety talk in order to lift our spirits just to get through the day. This helped us keep us focused on the job and not our homes, where we wished we were." This is when clients didn't give a s*** whether it was Christmas Eve, New Years or Super Bowl Sunday. I call it my days of synchronized swimming. When every one of your crew and yourself is in perfect rhythm. When they realize you're not there to call them out or rat on them but is earnestly there to build one hell of a team and you are part of it. When a supervisor thinks along those lines, allowing for everyone to do their job, including the safety guy, including them in a project from begin to end on a daily basis. It's a beautiful thing.
I have been in the oil industry since 1984, I have worked for major oil companies in Canada and the United States. I have been on the drilling side for about 20 years and about 6 years of production. I am a HSE Manager and feel that I do make a difference with our employees. It starts at the top and if your managers are buying into the safety culture then it will trickle downward.
RESPECT - is part of safety, respect the people and equipment around you.
I care about all of our employees and do not want to have to call wifes/husbands to say they wont be coming home tonight.
You learn over time that you are out there to help the workers and not to rat them out, Explain things in better terms on why they should work safely as opposed to screaming at them.
There are a lot of so-called safety personnel out there that do not have a clue on what regulations, standards or procedures are for they have never done the work themselves.
So safety it's a culture that is brought into a person's life.
Safety Personnel - Need to get their head out of their *** and realize that most guys are on the rigs to make a paycheck and will work unsafe if it means keeping their jobs - you just have to approach them a different way.
That's my view on it coming from a safety professional who has been on the largest blowout in California history and has been a lot of innocent men lose their lives on and off the rigs for working unsafe.
Remember accidents are preventable.
Permalink Reply by DeeperCheaper on Simply, one dang good post. I know you speak from the heart.
The "don't rat them out" and "don't scream at them" and "most guys are on the rig to make a paycheck and will work unsafe if it means keeping their job".....all of this dialogue speaks to what I have seen since 1960......
And best of all...."you just have to approach them in a different way"....
You got the message across, in a "professional" and a COMPASSIONATE way.......
Blessings....
Deeper......spell checker for the world!!!!!!!!!!
Permalink Reply by John Turner on Quit worrying about slips, trips and falls and especially the dreaded pocketknife. The hands will cure that. Concentrate on what will kill you, kick procedures, correct rig up of equipment, proper time utilization, correct drilling and tripping procedures. Drillers should train each man in the crew to take his place, toolpushers should train each driller to take his place. I did as a drilling consultant and it made my job easier and we had no LTA's and very few incidents and each incident went back to not training correctly. More than a safety man each rig needs a trainer.
Well put....Training is the key to preventing accidents from happening...
I am working down in North Dakota and one of the issues I am finding is that the boom is on down here and companies are hiring a warm body with work boots and sending them out to the drilling rigs without proper training....slips, trips and falls are common sense...dont just leave a cord lying around wrap it up....pick up the objects that are in the way...but what I hear lots is "it's not my job, or I did not leave that hammer laying on the mud tank so why should I pick it up"...
If you do not know how to run equipment you should be asking for training....we can all sit through training in a classroom and digest maybe 10% of what is taught however "on hands" training is the proper way of training so the guy actually gets a feel for what he is supposed to do....
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