Development and Implementation of Methods for Behavioral Safety Audit Conducting in the Fuel and Energy Complex

Abstract

The analysis of the accident and industrial injury statistics shows that the majority of accidents and industrial accidents (more than 70%) are caused by the mistakes of the operational personnel servicing the hazardous production facilities connected with violation of requirements of the organization and production of hazardous works. One of the priority directions of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of industrial safety till 2025 is the development of industrial safety culture, awareness of personal responsibility for a condition of industrial safety, formation of the intolerant relation to violations of safety requirements, in particular, due to implementation of scientific and technical achievements and the best practices. This study proposed a new approach to ensuring safety on objects of fuel and energy complex establishing rules of conducting the behavioral safety audit (BSA), assessment of identified hazardous actions and use of preventive measures. Within approbation of this new approach to safety ensuring we have made the procedure of mathematical processing of results of 264 conducted BSA on one of gas transmission companies. Implementation of approach boosts safety culture of production, prevention of the industrial accidents and accidents caused by unsafe behaviour and actions of workers.

Determination of the miners’ individual injury risk as a result of the dynamic manifestation of rock pressure

“…In the event that the obtained value exceeds the value of 2.5 10 -4 year -1 (the average value of the individual risk in the professional sphere), it is proposed to carry out organizational and technical measures aimed at preventing rock bursts [18,19,20].…”

Assessment of the efficiency of occupational safety culture management in fuel and energy companies

“…As part of the study, a methodological approach to assessing and monitoring the BSA results was developed which provides for the auditor to fill out a report form during conversation in which all the identified violations are noted and proposals for preventing their recurrence as well as corrective actions [19]. The analysis of the observed actions/conditions is carried out in seven categories (response of the employee/employees, actions of the employee/employees, workwear and PPE, tools and equipment, rules and regulations, workplace, transport).…”

“…Final element of the control model is presented as realization of control action -dynamic implementation of the developed methodology for conducting BSA at the pipeline enterprise under study, analysis of the results obtained and taking corrective actions and proactive measures [19].…”

Analysis of Conducting a Behavioral Safety Audit at an Energy Enterprise

“…И все чаще можно увидеть, что уровень культуры безопасности становится лидирующим среди показателей эффективности СУОТ. Исследования показали, что культурные механизмы играют значительную роль в возникновении крупномасштабных промышленных катастроф, связаны с показателями аварийности и количеством профессиональных заболеваний как на предприятиях, так и во всем обществе [6][7][8].…”