BAKKEN BREAKOUT • January 2012


“SafeLandUSA is required and/or accepted in most of the United States,” he said. “We’re just starting to promote it in the Bakken.”


The SafeLand program is a one day course. Trainees receive a picture ID card with a bar code that they can submit to their employers as soon as they reach the work site. England said it increases security because companies can set regulations to only allow carded members on the site.


“Most companies are requiring SafeLand as a prerequisite for employees,” Bowen said.


PEC’s SafeLand orientation covers 22 basic topics that took years of working with a myriad of large


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oil companies to pull together. England said it will soon expand to include the OSHA basic 10-hour course as well.


“SafeLandUSA meets operator and OSHA orientation requirements,” he said. “The best practice is to go beyond the requirements and create a standardized baseline of orientation training, and that’s what this does. That’s what we are doing as we’re trying to expand into the Bakken.”


More than 150,000 people in the United States have already gone through SafeLand or its offshore equivalent, SafeGulf, England said.


The Bakken is a different story.


“We really have a shortage of instructors up there,” Eaker said. “Right now we’re getting phone calls


Image courtesy of PEC Premier Working safely in varying weather conditions is introduced in the SafeLandUSA safety orientation.


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