Industry Safety Data, What is it Telling Us?

Walker, Kirsty; Hawkes, C.; Poore, Wendy; Carvalho, Mariana

doi:10.2118/190545-ms

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“…Wingate et al 9 found that approximately half of transportation fatalities in the OGE industry identified through a pilot study of the Texas Department of Transportation Crash Records Information System were not wearing seat belts. An in-depth study of motor vehicle crash data collected from members of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers for the year 2015 revealed that most of those fatally injured were not wearing seat belts 36 . New and innovative solutions may be needed to address the ongoing issue of transportation incidents.…”

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“…An indepth study of motor vehicle crash data collected from members of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers for the year 2015 revealed that most of those fatally injured were not wearing seat belts. 36 New and innovative solutions may be needed to address the ongoing issue of transportation incidents.…”

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Oil and Gas Extraction Industry Workers’ Compensation Claims and Proposed Safety Interventions

Alexander,

Ramirez-Cardenas,

Wurzelbacher

et al. 2024

J Occup Environ Med

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Objective This study analyzed Ohio workers’ compensation (WC) data to identify potential prevention strategies for common Oil and Gas Extraction industry claims. Methods Claim rates for 2001-2018 were calculated per full-time equivalent employee. Descriptive analyses on free-text descriptions of lost-time (LT) claims (>7 days away from work) identified common characteristics among claims and injured workers. Results Among 3,134 claims, 860 (27%) were LT. The industry group, Drilling contractors, experienced the highest LT claims rate, while the cost from Servicing contractors was highest. Contact with objects and equipment caused the highest LT claims rate. The most frequent LT occupation was Roustabout and LT work activity was Material Handling. Transportation Incidents caused most fatalities and hospitalizations. Over half of LT claims were from short-tenured workers. Conclusions Both proven and innovative approaches are needed to reduce severe WC claims in this industry.

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Oil and Gas Extraction Industry Workers’ Compensation Claims and Proposed Safety Interventions

Alexander,

Ramirez-Cardenas,

Wurzelbacher

et al. 2024

J Occup Environ Med

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Process Safety - Learning from Upstream Event Data

Walker

Fargie

Kannan

et al. 2020

SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability

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The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) is a global forum in which member companies identify and share best practices to achieve improvements in many areas including upstream process safety. The IOGP Safety Committee has undertaken a multi-year strategic project to focus on fatality prevention, known as Project Safira, which addresses transportation safety, personal safety and process safety. This paper presents data analysis work conducted on process safety and the associated learnings. In 2010, the IOGP started a pilot project to collect upstream process safety event (PSE) data in alignment with the upstream and downstream reporting criteria. Since 2014, an annual quality control and validation review of process safety event data, reported by IOGP member companies, has been undertaken by a group of process safety engineers and data reporting experts. This group has, over a period of years, developed a list of point of releases and refined a set of key words based on the threat lines in a generic PSE bow tie. With five years of PSE data reported by IOGP Member companies, this paper presents the findings from the data analysis process as well as insights and learnings. Submitted Tier 1 narrative descriptions have been analyzed annually, as well as collectively, to determine trends in points of release, category key words, causal factors and chronological patterns in fatal incidents. The results have shown differences in causes related to events with fatal or environmental outcomes. This provides the basis for a standardized industry approach in prevention strategies to eliminate process safety fatal incidents. Having the largest database of upstream process safety performance and fatality data enables analysis of upstream PSE trends and learning that is not possible in individual companies. IOGP is in a unique industry position to encourage international upstream industry collaboration and sharing of industry best practices to prevent process safety incidents, and their potential impact on life, the environment and assets loss.

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Determinants of IOGP Life-Saving Rules Compliance Among Nigerian Petroleum Industry Workers

Abanum

Alebere

Patricks-E

2021

Day 2 Tue, August 03, 2021

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Life-saving rules (LSRs) are a set of defined rules that support and complement general site-specific safety rules and procedures (SRPs). LSRs are popular in the oil & gas (O&G) industry and are part of the safety management system framework designed to prevent incidents in the workplace. Complying with LSRs ensures its intent of incident prevention, drives the goal of creating decent work, economic growth and sustainable development. With the continuum of incidents in the industry, total compliance with LSRs and SRPs still remains a mirage. Even though the introduction of LSRs in the O&G caused a paradigm shift from fair to better safety performance, incident investigations continue to unveil cases of violations/non-compliance. In the space of continuous improvement, it becomes expedient to determine possible causes of these LSRs and SRPs non-compliance, with a view to nipping the causal factors in the bud. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the factors affecting the level of workers compliance with IOGP LSRs in selected O&G companies operating in Delta State, Nigeria. The research recruited 317 sharp end workers and selected leaders, through a multistage sampling technique. A semi-structured, self-administered questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The study in its findings was able to elicit numerous compliance determinants arising from socio-demography, occupational and organisational factors. These factors are barriers to strengthen if the goal of total compliance and zero incident must be achieved in the workplace. The study recommends that management should comply with Thomas Legge's aphorisms 1 & 4 on SRPs and design training programmes for employees to be imparted with requisite knowledge needed for compliance, commit to safety and lead a positive safety culture to drive continuous improvement. Furthermore, there is the need to pursue total compliance with LSRs, SRPs and any site-specific safety rules to achieve zero incidents in the O&G industry.

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Industry Safety Data, What is it Telling Us?

Cited by 5 publications

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Oil and Gas Extraction Industry Workers’ Compensation Claims and Proposed Safety Interventions

Oil and Gas Extraction Industry Workers’ Compensation Claims and Proposed Safety Interventions

Process Safety - Learning from Upstream Event Data

Determinants of IOGP Life-Saving Rules Compliance Among Nigerian Petroleum Industry Workers

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