The Step Change in Safety Step Change Onshore The Step Change in Safety John Moran Head of ICT SCI Thanks you for making time for this presentation this afternoon Because of the limited time if I may I’ll go through the presentation – about 15 minutes and then engage in discussion thereafter I’m John Moran form SCI and for the purpose of this discussion I am head of an information systems group. The SCI ICT Group provide ICT system to our sector but way beyond – the Step Change system is one such example Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore In this presentation.. About SCI – ICT What is Step Change? What does the Step Change platform do? How? The collaborative offer Construction Skills User Needs Analysis With the support of Construction Skills we are undertaking a user needs analysis to determine the prospects for the extension of the Step Change initiative to onshore construction I have Step Change to tell you who they are, what they do and what impact they are having I will then propose how the system might be extended to onshore construction I’ll finish by asking you for a discursive contributing to the UNA In three questions Is there the appetite to do this? Who should we be working through? What barriers exist? Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

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Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Step Change Onshore Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Started in 1997 Oil and Gas industry trade associations Original Objective: To reduce the UK offshore Oil and Gas industry injury rate by 50%. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore Offshore any better? Lost Time Incident Frequency (includes fatalities) Step Change tend to use the measurement of lost time through incidents in measuring success We cannot tell how much of the improvement id ascribable to the Step Change initiative but we can say that significant success has been achieved It is worth noting that the sector is not battling with the obvious risks associated with re-commissioning very old assets in the Oil and Gas sector as energy prices climb Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Step Change Onshore Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Unique industry partnership of Operators, Contractors, Trade Associations, Unions and Regulator Leadership Team of 30 Industry MDs/Leaders No enforcement capability Step change is a partnership In this partnership the most important players are the MDs of around 30 leading companies in the Sector driving through an agreed common industry approach The initiative incorporates the input from the regulator but Step Change has no statutory powers. We achieve results through the collaborative sharing of what industry has learned and establishes as best practice Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step Change In Safety: Vision Step Change Onshore Step Change In Safety: Vision Workgroups: Asset Integrity Competence Control of Work Visible Leadership In 2010, the UK is the safest place to work in the worldwide Oil and Gas Industry Recognise Hazard and Reduce Risk Personal Ownership for Safety Asset Integrity Identifying, Understanding and Dealing with Hazards Making safety personal by demonstrating commitment and competence throughout the organisation. Maintaining Hardware to be Safe, Reliable and Efficient Out vision to 210 is clear and this ambition is driven thorough three principal themes which are underpinned by ownership of the issues at all levels demanding of all levels leadership communication and cooperation These themes Are: Personal Ownership of safety Recognition of risks and the drive to reduce hazards And Asset integrity Ownership and Involvement at all Levels Leadership Communication Cooperation Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Form manual handling to heavy lifts Step Change Onshore Form manual handling to heavy lifts Step impacts all areas of safety Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore Internet is the medium Step Change in Safety website The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore Step Change usage 42,000 different users accessed last year ¼ million page requests per month Nearly 200 new members join each month 17,000 members have contributed to 560 themes and 2,500 posts Safety Alerts are sent to up to 3600 subscribers every day A user is a separate individual accessing the site – may be some under reporting because of corporate firewalls This is a heavily used site. SCI provides a range of sites in construction and beyond some will know that we provide a number of frontline HSE sites This is the most heavily trafficked site that we have Growth is 200 registrants per month Registration is free and requires a minimum of profile information and an email form the individual Our current registered constituency numbers 17,000 A very active discussion area in which registered members define there own threads under common ( strategic) themes) Alerts are broadcast only to those who subscribe – they are cascaded down via a simple’ pdf me’ system which we can trace to the next level down Who are these people? let me read to you an extract from an e-mail I received on this subject yesterday… Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

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System Architecture-Community Server Step Change Onshore System Architecture-Community Server Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore The Site News, events, Incident Alerts, Resources, Discussions All interlinked All ‘Themed’ All cross-searchable The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore The Site Theme and profile filters can be applied The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore The Registered User Simple registration - allowance for profiles Registration permits authoring of Alerts, News and Events and access to Discussions Site responds to profile Pushed content by profile The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

The Administrative Users Step Change Onshore The Administrative Users An administrative console for control of: Users\roles Incident Alert authors News/Events/Resources approval Incident Alerts approval Moderation of discussion areas Moderation of daily bulletins Statistics reporting The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step onshore – Extending collaboration Step Change Onshore Step onshore – Extending collaboration The offshore sector are keen to collaborate and share: Because most safety incidents are independent of sector To improve information flow to their sector To increase the experience from which information is drawn To generate greater leverage The offshore sector see benefit in widening the franchise Because they feel they can learn form information from any other sector – clearly onshore construction happens to be very closely related This increases information flow to their sector - at present the information flow supports TWO daily digest – one general and one particularly about asset integrity Increases the experience base providing information Commercially these things mean more leverage – I’ll give an example in a minute or so Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step onshore – Extending collaboration Step Change Onshore Step onshore – Extending collaboration Ownership Step Change own offshore information SCI own dissemination platform ‘Construction’ would own their own information The Offshore sector would: Broadcast content to an equivalent Construction system Accept, filter and re-broadcast content from an equivalent Construction system Simple arrangement has been proposed Step Change ‘own their information SCI ‘own the dissemination platform# Step will make their content available to a custom configured onshore version sponsored by Construction Skills In exchange for the ability to rebroadcast onshore information – after filtering Correspondingly they would expect information coming form offshore to be filtered for use in the Construction Skills onshore system Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step onshore – Collaboration Step Change Onshore Step onshore – Collaboration Collaboration is being enabled by: Construction Skills sponsorship of a Construction focussed system Use of the same dissemination platform Requires a central ‘Step Change Team’ The ‘enabling’ activity is Construction Skills sponsorship of an equivalent and parallel onshore system Breaking don barriers to information collaboration in the onshore community No technical wheels to be reinvented but enabling providers to exchange information in a way that suits them Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step onshore – So no problems then? Step Change Onshore Step onshore – So no problems then? The will to do something? Sector fragmentation Legal barriers Integration with existing information flows Financial support? The principal barriers that we can identify now are The will to do something . This is a top-down will of the list Contractors Operators Trade associations Trade unions Regulator HSE It was the industry giants who decided that they would turn the culture in on itself – That is we will report and not so to do is now treated as unacceptable. It is often said that the fragmented nature on onshore construction prevents cascading to those at the tool face. The fact is the relationship between main contractors and the army of small contractors and self employed is very similar Regarding the claim that ‘our legal people would never allow us…’ I can do no more than point you at the offshore community. Yes there are subjudicy limits but there is a point at which collective will overcomes the point-by point based barriers enjoyed so much by the legal profession – in short talk to the offshore community Finally the sponsorship of Construction Skills and the exploitation potential developed in a wider participating community will support this effort Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe User Needs Analysis Presentation Meetings held with: Construction Industry Council Step Change CONIAC MCG – H& S Committee (under auspices of CC) I H S - OHSIS personnel Ten Alps – advertising sales agency ‘One-to-ones’ Federation of Master Builders Grain LNG Project H&S Management HSE SCOSS Construction Skills H&S E Committe

User Needs Analysis – to do Presentation Meetings with: ICE H & S Panel RIBA H & S Committee BIA Plenary – invitees + HSE + Minister ‘One-to-ones’ Parliamentary representation House Builders’ Federation IHS HSE Construction Skills H&S E Committe

Emerging Federated Model Step Change Onshore Emerging Federated Model Themed sites The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Emerging Federated Model – input side Step Change Onshore Emerging Federated Model – input side Federated authoring The effort involves collaborative activity from across the Sector and the medium which. More than any other, enables this is the Internet. Central to the Step Change initiative is the Step Change web site and the information ‘push’ and ‘pul’ services that it provides us At this point I’ll hand back to John to describe the Step Change platform and the form of collaboration that the Step Change in Safety seek. Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Step onshore – The prize Step Change Onshore Step onshore – The prize A positive influence on safety A collaboration with LARGE ‘gravitational pull’ Engagement with important co-sponsors Use of combined resources to develop services The main aim is to affect a measurable difference to safety of construction workers be they inshore or offshore The means to the end are to achieve a wider collaboration with greater displacement or gravitational pull This enables us to talk, for example to Telecomms providers and to be taken seriously This enables us to use ideas and resources in a collegiate manner. I’ll give one practical example In offshore as operatives assemble to go offshore they make their final calls and submit their mobile devices. We need to detect and broadcast directly to them – ‘Four people were injured in this Sector last month’ To do this we need the attention of the telecomms providers and a greater resource base from which to work and to take information form the Step information stream We needs to appeal to the Corporate responsibility agenda of Telecomms companies Use of mobile telecoms to broadcast directly to operatives Alerts as training material More active incident reporting Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis

Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change Onshore John Moran j.moran@steel-sci.com Construction Skills H&S E Committe Construction Skills -SCI User Needs Analysis