1. 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
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2. 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?
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3. About 30 Commercial Products
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4. 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%.
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Form manual handling to heavy lifts
Step Change Onshore
Form manual handling to heavy lifts
Step impacts all areas of safety
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9. Construction Skills H&S E Committe
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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.
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10. 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 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 I received on this subject yesterday…
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11. Construction Skills H&S E Committe
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Organisation
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12. System Architecture-Community Server
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System Architecture-Community Server
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13. Construction Skills H&S E Committe
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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.
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14. 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.
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15. Construction Skills H&S E Committe
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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.
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16. 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.
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17. 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
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18. 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
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19. 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
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20. 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
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21. 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
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22. 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
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23. 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.
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24. 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.
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25. 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
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26. Construction Skills H&S E Committe
Step Change Onshore
John Moran
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