1. Construction Skills H&S E Committe The Step Change in Safety John Moran Head of ICT SCI

2. 2Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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

3. 3Construction Skills H&S E Committe About 30 Commercial Products

4. 4Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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%.

5. 5Construction Skills H&S E Committe Offshore any better? Lost Time Incident Frequency (includes fatalities)

6. 6Construction Skills H&S E Committe Unique industry partnership of Operators, Contractors, Trade Associations, Unions and Regulator Leadership Team of 30 Industry MDs/Leaders No enforcement capability Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

7. 7Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change In Safety: Vision Recognise Hazard and Reduce Risk Personal Ownership for Safety Asset Integrity Maintaining Hardware to be Safe, Reliable and Efficient Identifying, Understanding and Dealing with Hazards Making safety personal by demonstrating commitment and competence throughout the organisation. Ownership and Involvement at all Levels Leadership Communication Cooperation In 2010, the UK is the safest place to work in the worldwide Oil and Gas Industry Workgroups: Asset Integrity Competence Control of Work Visible Leadership

8. 8Construction Skills H&S E Committe Form manual handling to heavy lifts Step impacts all areas of safety

9. 9Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step Change in Safety website Internet is the medium

10. 10Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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

11. 11Construction Skills H&S E Committe Organisation

12. 12Construction Skills H&S E Committe System Architecture-Community Server

13. 13Construction Skills H&S E Committe News, events, Incident Alerts, Resources, Discussions All interlinked All ‘Themed’ All cross-searchable The Site

14. 14Construction Skills H&S E Committe The Site Theme and profile filters can be applied

15. 15Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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 Registered User

16. 16Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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 Administrative Users

17. 17Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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

18. 18Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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

19. 19Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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’

20. 20Construction Skills H&S E Committe Step onshore – So no problems then? The will to do something? Sector fragmentation Legal barriers Integration with existing information flows Financial support?

21. 21Construction 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

22. 22Construction 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

23. 23Construction Skills H&S E Committe Emerging Federated Model Themed sites

24. 24Construction Skills H&S E Committe Emerging Federated Model – input side Federated authoring

25. 25Construction Skills H&S E Committe 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

26. 26Construction Skills H&S E Committe John Moran j.moran@steel-sci.com