ESSO AUSTRALIA'S APPROACH TO SAFETY MANAGEMENT

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 672
Author(s):  
M.G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Safety Skills ◽  
Daily Work

Esso Australia Ltd.'s current company-wide safety initiatives are aimed at challenging all employees and contractors to think about steps they can take to help move towards an injury-free workplace.The development and practical application of a number of occupational safety initiatives have contributed towards Esso employees achieving a period approaching 13 million workhours (nearly five years) without a Lost Time Injury (LTI) and which also assisted Esso's contractor workforce to achieve a period of more than 3 million work hours LTI free w hile performing exploration, heavy construction, drilling, production and maintenance operations.Esso produces 32 million litres of crude oil per day and up to 25 million cubic metres of gas per day from 18 Bass Strait platforms, and two onshore oil/gas facilities on behalf of the Esso/BHP Petroleum joint venture (Fig 1). More than 1200 employees and 800–1,000 contractors are involved in operations involving a high level of production drilling and construction activity.This level of safety performance has been achieved through the unwavering commitment and dedication from all levels in the organisation to create a safety culture which is genuinely accepted by employees and contractors as one of their primary core personal values.The framework for Esso's safety management is Esso's 'Operations Integrity Management System' (OIMS). This requires that all operations adopt a structured approach to safety management with particular emphasis on risk management including continuously looking for opportunities to improve safety management processes.We have been active in developing and refining innovative personal and work group risk management tools (Steback 5x5 and Task Analyss). These tolsare designed to promote increased levels of shop floor involvement in identifying and addressing safety issues, improving first line supervisor involvement and safety skills, and nurturing a '24-hour' safety culture which extends beyond the workplace into the home and family environment. The combined effect of these initiatives is helping create a mindset that n level of injury (not even first aid) is acceptable regardless of the activity being undertaken. It promotes the expectation that everyone approaches their daily work with the mindset that 'all injuries are preventable!'

scholarly journals Factors Related to Safety Climate in Production Line Workers of Food Manufacturing

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.24) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Abdullbasis Yangok ◽  
Thitiworn Choosong
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Food Manufacturing ◽  
The Status ◽  
Safety Priority ◽  
Safety Systems

Developing and encouraging a safety culture is an important factor to achieve a safe workplace with low injury rates. Safety climate can be an indicator of the status of an occupational health and safety management system in an organization. It can provide a snapshot of the safety culture. The Thai version of Nordic Occupational Safety Climate Questionnaire is used to evaluate the safety climate in the food manufacturing industry in Songkhla, Thailand. The results can also be used as a guideline in the development and safety management in the future. The response rate was great. The employees who participated were 14.7% male and 85.3% were female. Most subjects were 41-50 years-old and most had a 1- to 5-year working experience. The highest safety climate score of the workers was the dimension of “workers’ trust in the efficacy of safety systems” (3.29) while the lowest score was the dimension of “workers' safety priority and risk non-acceptance” (2.89). For the leaders, the highest safety climate score was the dimension of “workers’ safety commitment” (3.44) and the lowest score was the dimension of “management safety empowerment” (3.10). The factors related to accident occurrence were the differences in the organizations and the mean score of the safety climate dimension of “worker’s safety priority and risk non-acceptance”.  

scholarly journals Possibilities of conceptualization and operacioanlizaton of the safety culture and safety climate in the international safety management researches

2009 ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
László Terjék
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Culture Dimensions ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many

In this paper the author summarized the definitions and operationalisations of the safety culture and safety climate concepts. He analyzed the Hungarian and international safetymanagement scientific literatures. He also analyzed the scientific definitions and summarised the common and different elements. The author emphasizes that the many different scientific safety culture researches had been created good possibilities to find the common surfaces. Based on the international safety culture operationalisation practices the author identified a composition of safety culture dimensions which could be a possible basis for the Hungarian safety culture researches. These dimensions are:???? values (individual and organizational) from this result scale of values,???? attitudes (individual and organizational),???? motivations,???? perceptions,???? social status and estimation of the occupational safety and health,???? position and estimation of the occupational safety and health communication,???? position and estimation of the occupational safety and health tranings,???? measuring of confidence, optimism, fatalism and anomic characteristics,???? good practices and behavior,???? influence and estimation of the work,???? risk perception and safety level perception,???? contentment.with occupational safety and health.

scholarly journals Operational Control in the Process Safety Assurance

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-131
Author(s):  
Tatiana Karkoszka
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Process Safety ◽  
Operational Control ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Effective Manner

AbstractThe need of ensure the safety in the realised industrial processes results directly from their negative influence both on environment and workers’ health, and, as a result – the associated material losses. Safety management must be based on the risk management, results of which are the basis of risk acceptability assessment and taking action of the systemic character directed on risk minimisation. Those actions should guarantee technical condition of the used technological installations and monitoring and control equipment as well as organisational solutions, which in the effective manner are going to minimise the probability of occurrence of environmental and occupational accidents, and – in the case of their occurrence – minimise the influences. Therefore research on the practical solutions of process safety assurance, both in the regular conditions of work and in the time of the emergency are of the crucial meaning. That is why the value of the paper is being constituted by the authorial model of operational control, which aim is to guarantee the process safety from the perspective of the both: technical and occupational safety. The worked out model is the systemic tool giving the guidelines of operational management and allowing for the homogeneous management in the range of environmental safety and occupational safety and on the basis of – being the fundamental element of the model – risk management. The worked out model can be implemented in case of any organisation which wants to assure the safety of the realised processes by risk and system management.

Industrial Occupational Safety

2021 ◽  
pp. 1767-1787
Author(s):  
Susana Pinto da Costa ◽  
Nélson Costa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Data Safety ◽  
Massive Change

The new industrial revolution will encompass massive change. Manufacturing Companies are pursuing digitalization and trying to figure out how to implement collaborative robots, all the while trying to manage data safety and security. It is a big challenge to deal with all the needed infrastructures to handle the big data digitalization provides whilst having to account for the shielding of it. Even more so when one has to succeed at it while taking care of the workers, the sustainability of their jobs, the implementation of safe practices at work, based on the contributions of the whole, through efficient vertical communication, imbued with Safety Culture and aiming the sustainability of the Company itself. This chapter proposes to address the role of standardization in managing industry 4.0, where culture, Risk Management and Human Factors are key, and how the tools provided by these norms may contribute to nimbly balance each Company's needs.

scholarly journals Risk Perceptions and Safety Cultures in the Handling of Nanomaterials in Academia and Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 479-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Louise Kirkegaard ◽  
Pete Kines ◽  
Katharina Christiane Jeschke ◽  
Keld Alstrup Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Limit Values

Abstract Objectives Work and research with nanomaterials (NMs) has primarily focused on innovation, toxicity, governance, safety management tools, and public perceptions. The aim of this study was to identify academia and industry occupational safety and health (OSH) managers’ perceptions and handling of NMs, in relation to safety culture. Methods Semistructured interviews were carried out with OSH managers at six academic institutions and six industrial companies. The interview statements were coded into five topics regarding NMs: risk comprehension, information gathering, actions, communication, and compliance. The statements were then coded according to a five-step safety culture maturity model reflecting increasing occupational safety maturity from passive, to reactive, active, proactive, and exemplary occupational safety. Results The safety culture maturity of the academic institutions were primarily active and proactive, whereas the industry group were primarily active and reactive. None of the statements were rated as exemplary, with the majority reflecting an active safety culture. The topics varied from a passive approach of having no focus on NMs and regarding risks as a part of the job, to applying proactive measures in the design, production, application, and waste management phases. Communication and introduction to OSH issues regarding NMs as well as compliance provided challenges in both academia and industry, given the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of students/staff and employees. Workplace leaders played a crucial role in establishing a legitimate approach to working safely with NMs, however, the currently available OSH information for NMs were described as insufficient, impractical, and inaccessible. There was an embedded problem in solely relying on safety data sheets, which were often not nanospecific, as this may have led to underprotection. Conclusions There is a need for more structured, up-to-date, easily accessible, and user-friendly tools and information regarding toxicity and threshold limit values, relevant OSH promotion information, legislation, and other rules. The study underscores the need for politicians and engineers to collaborate with communication experts and both natural and social scientists in effectively framing information on NMs. Such a collaboration should allow for flexible deployment of multilevel and integrated safety culture initiatives to support sustainable nanotechnology and operational excellence.

The Impact of Safety Culture on Systemic Risk Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gunningham ◽  
Darren Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Australian Coal ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Impact

Notwithstanding impressive gains in occupational safety across the Australian coal mining sector, this research reveals that even within the same company, some mines substantially outperform others in terms of safety outcomes, raising questions as to why, notwithstanding the introduction of sophisticated and systemic risk management mandated by government, such variation still exists. Potential contributory variables are considered (technology, physical environment, management systems), and discarded, before examining the role of safety culture. Drawing on qualitative (interviews) and quantitative research (safety statistics and audit results) it was found that distinctive patterns of site and context specific cultural factors align to safety performance. The article provides insights as to whether, to what extent or in what circumstances site specific cultural variables, served to undermine or reinforce the effectiveness of the company's overall risk management strategy.

Safety management system in automotive and energy industries

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kongkiti Phusavat ◽  
Bordin Vongvitayapirom ◽  
Pekka Kess ◽  
Binshan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Management System ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Iso 26000 ◽  
Depth Analysis

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the key results and lessons of a study in Thailand. Occupational safety and health is the foundation of ISO 26000, which emphasizes on corporate social responsibility. This study underlines the needs on gradually preparing the industries for market integration. Design/methodology/approach Two leading companies in automotive and energy industries are selected. The automotive industry is one of Thailand’s largest clusters in terms of investment, employment, and sale turnovers. On the other hand, the energy industry is critical as Thailand seeks to import energies from neighboring and other countries. The in-depth analysis aims to identify excellent practices, elements, and success factors commonly shared by the two selected companies. The interviews with the companies’ executives follow this identification for the findings’ confirmation and possible extension. Findings The findings provide a description of the process of how an integrated safety management system is implemented and reports results such as the following. The two leading companies apparently share many common practices, elements, and success factors. They include safety culture (empowerment, behavior, communication, etc.), system and structure (processes, instruction, documentations, records, etc.), and use of external influences (e.g. safety audits by international partners and customers) to sustain the safety management system. Originality/value This study should inform executives and managers who are concerned with how to prepare an organization when attempting to adapt to Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems 18000 and subsequently to ISO 26000. Building a strong safety culture should be considered as the foundation, while relying on regulatory compliance and enforcement alone is not adequate.

scholarly journals BARRIERS TO THE ADOPTION OF NEW SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES IN CONSTRUCTION: A DEVELOPING COUNTRY CONTEXT

2022 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-133
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap ◽  
Canwin Guan Ying Lam ◽  
Martin Skitmore ◽  
Nima Talebian
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Construction Safety Management ◽  
Technological Limitations

The adoption rate of new technologies is still relatively low in the construction industry, particularly for mitigating occupational safety and health (OSH) risks, which is traditionally a largely labor-intensive activity in developing countries, occupying ill-afforded non-productive management resources. However, understanding why this is the case is a relatively unresearched area in developing countries such as Malaysia. In aiming to help redress this situation, this study explored the major barriers involved, firstly by a detailed literature review to identify the main barriers hampering the adoption of new technologies for safety science and management in construction. Then, a questionnaire survey of Malaysian construction practitioners was used to prioritize these barriers. A factor analysis further identified six major dimensions underlying the barriers, relating to the lack of OSH regulations and legislation, technological limitations, lack of genuine organizational commitment, prohibitive costs, poor safety culture within the construction industry, and privacy and data security concerns. Taken together, the findings provide a valuable reference to assist industry practitioners and researchers regarding the critical barriers to the adoption of new technologies for construction safety management in Malaysia and other similar developing countries, and bridge the identified knowledge gap concerning the dimensionality of the barriers.

scholarly journals Analysis the Effect of Leadership to Safety Climate, Safety Culture and Safety Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nurul Khasanah ◽  
Kholil . ◽  
Sugiarto .
Keyword(s):  
Safety Culture ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Research Analysis

In this era of globalisation, occupational safety is the main spotlight in every industry. By implementing a safety management system in the workplace, it is hoped that it can shape the safety climate and positive safety culture, which can be assessed from zero accidents, workforce behaviour and support for the safety of oneself and coworkers. The main objective of this research was to analyse the effect of leadership on safety climate, safety culture and safety performance. This research was conducted at a plastic packaging manufacturer, PT. Berlina Tbk Tangerang with 133 participants and used the SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) analysis method. The results of the research analysis showed that leadership, safety climate and safety culture have a simultaneous significant effect on 83% safety performance.

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