Safety nerd on a mobile alert:
Curious how many of y'all complaining about the overkill nature have been unfortunate enough to have investigated or reviewed fatal, or even near fatal, events in detail? Do you truly appreciate how close to death folks are every single day? Do you truly understand that even if a worker may have done everything right, just how incredibly easy it is to be the victim of another's carelessness or lack of focus, plain old innocent ignorance, or worse still - purposeful deviation from policies/procedures?
Not accusing, genuinely intrested.
Having reviewed incident data for a large company for the past few years, I can unequivocally say that the majority of safeguards help. However, no amount of safeguards will help instill the sense of self preservation required to fundamentally understand the risks present on rigs and/or production facilities. You simply cannot teach people to care enough about themselves (looking at you overweight smoker who's in the fast food line).
I think most of you would be surprised to know how much effort is spent on preventing catastrophic incidents.
That's not to say FRCs in a greenfield aren't overbearing. But it goes to consistency. Folks can't even get the basics of LOTO/IHE correct, and need more reinforcement than you might imagine. Would you ever start work on a job that you didn't personally check every energy isolation point and apply your own personal form of LOTO (lock/chain, etc)? How about walk under a suspended load?
Think anybody's ever died or been seriously injured because they took a "short cut to just get the job done" and trusted safeguard implementation to somebody else?
Give yourselves the credit of being highly educated while also realizing the majority of folks who show up to the field can't even identify what could kill them that day. Want to talk waste? How about creating/maintaining policies for all of your facilities/operations, even though they don't differ all that much, and folks can't even get one critical policy right consistently. That's waste.
Curious how many of y'all complaining about the overkill nature have been unfortunate enough to have investigated or reviewed fatal, or even near fatal, events in detail? Do you truly appreciate how close to death folks are every single day? Do you truly understand that even if a worker may have done everything right, just how incredibly easy it is to be the victim of another's carelessness or lack of focus, plain old innocent ignorance, or worse still - purposeful deviation from policies/procedures?
Not accusing, genuinely intrested.
Having reviewed incident data for a large company for the past few years, I can unequivocally say that the majority of safeguards help. However, no amount of safeguards will help instill the sense of self preservation required to fundamentally understand the risks present on rigs and/or production facilities. You simply cannot teach people to care enough about themselves (looking at you overweight smoker who's in the fast food line).
I think most of you would be surprised to know how much effort is spent on preventing catastrophic incidents.
That's not to say FRCs in a greenfield aren't overbearing. But it goes to consistency. Folks can't even get the basics of LOTO/IHE correct, and need more reinforcement than you might imagine. Would you ever start work on a job that you didn't personally check every energy isolation point and apply your own personal form of LOTO (lock/chain, etc)? How about walk under a suspended load?
Think anybody's ever died or been seriously injured because they took a "short cut to just get the job done" and trusted safeguard implementation to somebody else?
Give yourselves the credit of being highly educated while also realizing the majority of folks who show up to the field can't even identify what could kill them that day. Want to talk waste? How about creating/maintaining policies for all of your facilities/operations, even though they don't differ all that much, and folks can't even get one critical policy right consistently. That's waste.
