Technical Agenda
Monday, 9 August |
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0800–1130 |
Session 1: Define “Zero” Incidents—Can You Buy Safety Performance?”Session Chairperson: John Karish, Ensco International, Inc. Description This session will explore the meaning of zero related to the boundaries of safety, health and environment, and the focus given to achieving “zero” from a business perspective. Since the Forum is all about “getting to zero,” participants must agree on what our industry is actually trying to achieve. Does zero mean no lost-time incidents, no recordable incidents, no first-aid cases, no near misses and/or potential near misses? Moreover, what does a “Zero Incident” concept mean from a business performance perspective? Is the goal of “zero incidents” a cost or a business advantage? The fine balance between business contexts (productivity) and managing and improving safety will be discussed in this session and will set the scene for later Forum sessions. |
1230–1600 |
Session 2: Management Systems and Metrics—How Do We Maximize the Benefits?Session Chairperson: Missy Bergman, Halliburton Description This session will consider whether existing management systems are aiding or hindering our goal of a zero- incident workplace and, if hindering, what changes should be considered. Discussion on management systems cannot be had without reference to the measures used in management systems to assess success. The philosophy of “you can’t manage what you can’t measure” has spawned an industry subculture of seeking to measure every aspect of safety and its attendant behaviors. Questions abound in the areas of leading vs. lagging indicators, evolutionary vs. revolutionary targets, implementation of scorecards, and whether quotas is a positive or negative focus. With multiple business partners, stakeholders, and suppliers involved in work activities, effort to understand and recognize the value of each company’s systems contributions and the way success is measured is a key to incident-free operations. Managing and getting leverage from these interrelationships is vital to success. |
Tuesday, 10 August |
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0800–1130 |
Session 3: Understanding and Developing a Safety CultureSession Chairperson: Jade Strong, Moody International Description Culture is difficult to define. The simple definition is the collective values and beliefs of the majority of people in an organization. Therefore, a safety culture is what people believe to be true about safety in their organization and what safety’s “value” is relative to other things in the organization. However, culture is truly seen only when it is reflected in what people do and say, in how the organization conducts business and how it sets priorities, designs structures, and systems, etc. Therefore, the question is, what would an organization look like if it indeed had a strong safety culture? This is the first step in developing a safety culture, a key issue for many organizations that have to deal with the reality of today having up to four generations at work at the same time and working with a global workforce with a multitude of ethnicities. This session will explore the development of a safety culture in the above context and specifically explore the values, beliefs, life experiences, “unspoken norms,” and attitudes that the diverse generations and ethnicities bring to the workplace, as well as the methods to create alignments for a safe and productive work environment. |
1230–1600 |
Session 4: The Stakeholders in Safety—Their Roles and Importance in Getting to “Zero”Session Chairperson: Halina Caravello, BakerHughes Description Getting to zero is a challenging process that involves numerous stakeholders in addition to processes and activities. Leaders and supervisors have a place in the process; they set the tone, the expectations, and the priorities. Equally important is the role of employees and their families, contractors, the supply chain, and the external influencers such as regulators and the public. In this session, we will explore the roles various stakeholders play in the journey to “zero” and identify potential actions and behaviors of the key stakeholders in moving the industry forward. |
Wednesday, 11 August |
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0800–1130 |
Session 5: Taking the Risk Out of the Work Process—Engineering and Risk Management SolutionsSession Chairperson: Jim Johnstone, Contek Solutions Description The only way of eliminating risk completely would be to flip the switch off and have everyone go home. Every task has some probability of failure leading to property loss, an injury, or even worse. Risk management starts with the way work is engineered and how well risk is assessed from the moment the job is planned. The risks identified can be perceived differently by each individual, from the engineers through to the operators. Numerous factors such as generation and/or ethnicity influence risk tolerance. This session will explore how the evaluation and treatment of risk from design to observations and interventions in the workplace can influence the probability of getting to zero. |
1230–1600 |
Session 6: Creating a Vision of an Incident-Free WorkplaceSession Chairperson: Guy Lombardo, Schlumberger Description Einstein said, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” He could have been talking about the Exploration & Production safety profession standing at the apex of decades of stepwise improvements in HSE, and wondering how to get to the now-visible Zero Incident summit. What new thinking can take us there? We will brainstorm an ideal future state and explore the means, resources, and methods of control demanded by the ideal Zero Incident future. |
