CONIAC June 2008 Step Onshore John Moran Head of ICT SCI

2CONIAC June 2008 In this presentation.. Step Change is … What Step Change does How Step Change is makes a difference Can Step Change be extended onshore? A user needs analysis exercise

3CONIAC June 2008 Construction slips again RIDDOR rates of reported fatal injury to construction workers

4CONIAC June 2008 Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Started in 1997 Oil and Gas industry trade associations Objective: To reduce the UK offshore Oil and Gas industry injury rate by 50%.

5CONIAC June 2008 Offshore any better? Lost Time Incident Frequency (includes fatalities)

6CONIAC June 2008 A collaboration of best practice and learning:  Contractors  Operators  Trade associations  Trade unions  Regulator HSE Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

7CONIAC June 2008 Step Change In Safety: Vision “To make the UK the safest Oil and Gas Exploration and Production province in the world by 2010”

8CONIAC June 2008 Manual handling to heavy lifts Step impacts all areas of safety

9CONIAC June 2008 Step Change in Safety website Internet is the medium

10CONIAC June 2008 A community built on communication Incident alerts are submitted directly by users Moderated / facilitated by the Step Change team Discussions are started and pursued in real time

11CONIAC June 2008 …………….Never stops pushing It pushes incident and near-miss description ‘alerts’

12CONIAC June 2008 …………….Never stops pushing It pushes current news and events

13CONIAC June 2008 …………….Never stops pushing It provides the sector with shared resources

14CONIAC June 2008 It ‘pulls’…………………………. It ‘pulls’ debate and solutions

15CONIAC June 2008 …………….Never stops pushing … pushes community solutions by return

16CONIAC June 2008 A safer community Step Change has built a community who communicate health and safety

17CONIAC June 2008 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

18CONIAC June 2008 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

19CONIAC June 2008 Step onshore – Extending collaboration Ownership  Step Change own offshore information  SCI own dissemination platform  ConstructionSkills would own onshore information The Offshore sector would:  Broadcast content to an equivalent Construction system  Accept, filter and re-broadcast content from an equivalent Construction system

20CONIAC June 2008 Step onshore –Collaboration Collaboration would be enabled by:  Construction Skills sponsorship of a Construction focussed system  Formation of an equivalent Construction Collaboration  Use of the same dissemination platform

21CONIAC June 2008 Step onshore – So no problems then? Is there the will to do something? Can Sector fragmentation be addressed? Legal barriers? Integration with existing information flows Is there financial support?

22CONIAC June 2008 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

23CONIAC June 2008 Step onshore – Engaging the sector Is there the will to do something? Who to talk to? What are the key issues to address?

24CONIAC June 2008