Safety in Oil and Gas 2015 - Pre-Conference In-depth Learning Sessions

Monday 23 February 2015

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These long format sessions will provide participants with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of critical process safety elements and human factors to achieve improved safety performance.

Delivered using a combination of seminars, interactive formats and hands-on exercises these sessions will provide a practical understanding of how world-class organisations manage their process safety and
operational risk.

Both sessions run for one full day. Registration and morning coffee is at 08:30 and sessions will conclude at 17:00. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided. Choose between:


SESSION A: NEW PROTOCOLS OF PROCESS SAFETY ANALYSIS AND ESTABLISHING A PROCESS SAFETY DIALOGUE WITHIN YOUR ORGANISATION


Part 1: Process safety assurance

The UK Regulator, HSE has developed and trained its major hazard inspectors on the use of a new protocol to examine process safety management systems during its inspection and other regulatory programmes. To ensure HSE has a high degree of assurance that major hazard business have effective risk management systems in place it is essential for HSE to be able to link findings from inspection and investigation into serious incidents back to the an organisation’s management arrangements. Crucially, HSE’s inspections have to quickly target the most important aspects of risk control and identify vulnerability and susceptibility of these measures to failure and the likelihood of a major accident.

This session will share this new Process Safety Analysis protocol with safety professionals and managers responsible for risk management at major hazard establishments. You will be able to practice the same skills as HSE inspectors utilise to target and assess key aspects of process safety management.

This part will cover:

  • An overview of HSE’s process safety management model
  • How to identify process safety failure mechanisms
  • How to target key aspects of process safety risk management and how to use this within your own company’s risk assurance programme
  • How to identify key vulnerabilities or weaknesses in operational control measures
  • How to incorporate the outcomes to your organisation’s KPI programme

Part 2: Establishing a process safety dialogue within an organisation

Effective management of key business risks requires everyone to be on the same page when it comes to understanding how well risks are being managed. Senior managers must understand the essential aspects of risk management and how to make sense of information on performance of complex systems, and how to question and challenge what they are being told. Safety professionals and operational teams must be able to present information to senior managers in a way that leads to a rapid and shared understanding of the state of play of plant and processes and of the important action which may be needed to prevent a major accident or serious incident.

The part will provide an oversight on:

  • How to describe the risk profile of a business or activity
  • Tips and hints about how to present complex and technical information in a succinct way
  • How to gather and measure performance of complex risk management systems
  • How this can be linked to shared business outcomes and objectives
  • Having completed this one-day training, senior safety executives will be competent to take a much more visible role in their organisation and will be better placed to take integrated consideration of major hazard risks as an essential part of key business decisions.

 

Session Leader:

Ian Travers
Deputy Director Chemical
Regulation Directorate

Health and Safety Executive
(UK)

 

 

 


SESSION B: ANATOMY OF A MAJOR INCIDENT AND HOW IT APPLIES TO YOUR COMPANY AND PERSONAL ROLE


A candid account from the former BP Vice President of Drilling and Completions for the Gulf of Mexico, of the critical failures in safety management that led to the Macondo oil spill:

In December 2009, after voicing concerns over safety and not getting management support, veteran drilling executive Kevin Lacy resigned as BP’s vice president for drilling and completions in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time he worried about a convergence of risk factors: significant planned organizational changes, a risk-heavy set of deep water wells, along with tremendous pressure to reduce cost.

Four months later came the Macondo blow-out… the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. For the first time in Australia, Kevin will give his insights from a leadership
perspective on the organizational factors that preceded this major industrial incident and how these they can be mitigated through proper leadership, implementing an effective risk management process and
building a robust safety culture.

This course will explain the anatomy of catastrophic process incidents, the concepts associated with safety leadership and safety culture, and provide a detailed review of the Macondo blow out:

  • Leaders vs managers - have you taken the journey?
  • Understanding the anatomy of major disasters
  • Why QRA often doesn’t work for major incidents
  • Personal consequences of getting it wrong
  • Logical behaviours at the frontline can lead to disasters
  • Threat management vs classic risk management
  • Why managing process safety is so difficult compared to personal safety
  • So you have a process - is it effective?
  • Leadership tools and personal behaviours

 

Session Leader:

Kevin Lacy
Executive Vice President 
Technical Staff and Disciplines

PetroSkills USA

Former Vice President, Drilling
and Completions

Taslisman Energy and BP

 

 


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