You're striving for safety in Oil and Gas. How does feedback elevate your standards?

Feedback plays a critical role in elevating safety standards in the oil and gas industry. It provides insights into potential hazards and helps identify areas for improvement, fostering a proactive safety culture. Through regular feedback from employees, contractors, and stakeholders, companies can pinpoint unsafe practices and implement corrective measures. This continuous loop of feedback enables the development of robust safety protocols and training programs. Additionally, learning from past incidents through feedback helps in preventing future occurrences, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and promoting a safe work environment. Ultimately, feedback drives innovation in safety practices, leading to higher industry standards.

In my experience working with both international and national oil companies each of them have a strong HSE targets and policies. A culture is just a part of work, in industry where mistakes can cost human life and millions of $$$ it’s is essential to constantly explain to employees what are the right practices to follow. I’m not a fan of monthly report targets at the offices , but fully support safe and rewarding system for reporting hazardous actions.

An importante topic that we have to deal with safety culture is team engagement and motivation: when workers know their feedback is valued and considered, they feel more engaged and motivated. An environment where employees are encouraged to share their concerns and suggestions contributes to a stronger safety culture. Implement tools to establish the communication between operational work force and the possibility to criticize procedures, with focus in continuous better. No body better who develop the task, to improve the safety in this case, pushing the culture of prevent accidents.

In the Oil and Gas industry, I've seen firsthand how feedback elevates safety standards. With over a decade of experience, I've learned that feedback is crucial in: Identifying blind spots: Uncovering potential hazards and areas for improvement. Learning from incidents: Implementing corrective actions to prevent future occurrences. Improving procedures: Refining processes to make them more effective and efficient. In my previous role, I recall a near-miss incident where an employee reported a potential hazard. We acted on the feedback, updated our procedures, and provided additional training. This proactive approach prevented a potential major incident and reinforced our safety culture.

Effective risk management in the oil and gas industry requires a proactive approach, strong leadership, and a commitment to continuous improvement in safety and environmental practices. By adequately identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, companies can help protect their employees, assets, and reputation while also promoting long-term sustainability and profitability.

Regularly evaluating safety performance, conducting safety audits and inspections, and seeking feedback from employees help identify areas for improvement and drive ongoing safety enhancements. Overall, cultivating a strong safety culture in the oil and gas industry requires a collective effort from leadership, employees, contractors, and stakeholders.

Companies that keep lessons learned log (LLL) book is more effective by 30%, than the companies that doesn't. Especially LLL book is essential for new projects, to avoid same mistakes. It's vitally important to track all lessons learned at the time it took place, since after some time people forget negative experience, it's human psychology.