1. Keeping “U” Out of Injuries
Toolbox Talk 2016
Keeping “U” Out of Injuries

2. What is Safety Stand Down?
Safety Stand Down is a program designed to bring together frontline workers and senior executives to discuss the prevention of injuries and illnesses.
2016 focuses on three leading causes of injury in the upstream oil and gas industry, with the goal of:
Keeping “u” out of injuries

3. What are the Three Leading Causes of Injury?
Slips, Trips and Falls
Highway Accidents
Burns
Struck by an Object
Caught in
Overexertion

4. Did You Guess Highway Accidents?
Most people do!
Although injuries can be severe, they are not one of the leading three causes of injury.

5. The Three Leading Causes of Injury are:
1st
2nd
3rd
*Falls on same level are ranked 3rd, but slips and trips include body reaction as well making this an even more significant cause of injury. Overexertion is excessive physical effort directed to an object, which can result in sprains and tears of muscle and connective tissue.

6. Provincial Rank
How do these injury causes rank across the three western Provinces?
Injury Cause AB BC SK
Struck by Object 1
Overexertion 2 3
Falls on same level 4

7. The Top 3 - the Numbers
Over the last five years in the three Western provinces the top three injury causes accounted for approximately:
Highway accidents ~1,300 claims, ~$15,000, claims cost and ~25,000 lost days
Injury Cause
Claims Count
Claims Cost
Lost Days
Struck by Object
5,000
$22,500,000
36,000
Overexertion
3,400
$14,400,000
40,000
Falls on same level
2,600
$14,800,000
39,000

8. Prevention Discussion
What are we doing well to prevent these injuries?
What could we do better?
What additional support do you need (e.g. training, resources, equipment, etc.)?