H&S: TOM ANDERSON
Tom
Anderson
...is the founder and Managing Director of Blue Stream Consulting. As an engineer, he has held technical, advisory and strategic roles in safety critical industries, including construction, reprocessing and decommissioning sectors of the UK nuclear industry. As a qualified Occupational Psychologist, Tom has implemented behavioural and transformational change programmes in the oil & gas, nuclear and healthcare sectors. His fields of expertise include High Reliability Organisation (HRO) practices, safety culture development, safety leadership improvement and workforce behavioural change. As part of his current PhD research with Lancaster University Management School, Tom is investigating how oil & gas workers engage and make sense of safety issues in the local workplace and larger organisational setting.
HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANISATIONS (HROs): A PATH TO REDUCING HYDROCARBON RELEASES?
Words: Interview with Tom Anderson, Director, Blue Stream Consulting. By Dr Rachel Parratt
geing UK oil and gas platforms present us with unique challenges. Hazards associated with degrading equipment can compromise asset integrity, potentially leading to accidental hydrocarbon releases (HCRs), which the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) monitor as a key indicator of how well the offshore industry is managing major hazard risks and the integrity of installations.1
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While the HSE’s initiative to drive down HCRs has been effective, with a decrease in major and significant HCRs from over 110 in 2001/02 to a static annual average of 73 over the last 5 years, new initiatives are now in place to reduce this figure even further. In 2010, member companies of the UK offshore industry’s safety initiative, Step Change in Safety, made a commitment to achieve a 50% reduction in the number of reportable HCRs by the end of March 2013. Two years into the programme, major and significant HCRs have been reduced to 51 (2011/12 figures).2
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good news, but the recent major oil and gas leaks from the Gannet and Elgin platforms highlights the need for the industry to remain focused on HCRs as potential contributors to major accidents offshore.
How can we remain focused on HCRs?
The December 2011 Maitland report noted that ‘effective control and management of major hazards requires a good safety culture to pervade an organisation and installation’. The report also stated the need for personnel offshore to ‘cooperate on many issues, not least the prevention of major accidents where securing a strong culture of safety and environmental awareness is vital to the effective management of risks’.3
Maintaining a positive safety culture is diffi cult to achieve.
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