Training and

Philosophy

Changes in the

Oil and Gas

Industry

Rick Ingram, BP &

Marianne McGee, OSHA

National STEPS Network

National Safety

Congress

September 28, 2015

Why Were Changes

Necessary?

In 2003, OHSA’s strategic management

plan highlighted the need for a change in

the industry due to high

injury/illness/fatality rates.

Why Were Changes

Necessary?

Corpus Christi Area Office fatality rate for

O&G was 25%-33% every year.

OSHA had been conducting inspections

for years but the rates never changed

In The Beginning

A meeting invitation was sent to 45

companies to come meet with OSHA and

discuss what could be done to improve

safety and health

75 individuals from 45 companies

attended the meeting

The Question

“What are your challenges to providing a

safe workplace?”

Misunderstanding of the OSHA

requirements

Not enough sharing of information

Clients have different emphasis on safety,

one is strict, the next.. Not so much

Employee orientations for each client……

Challenges:

Some companies – Fewer H&S Resources

Lack of Priority of H&S

Content with the Status Quo

“Regulator Shyness”

Not unique to Oil and Gas

One Response

It takes 40 hours of orientation (including travel) to have one employee qualified to work for all customers.

And this doesn’t include training such as HazCom, fall protection, confined space, etc.!

Now multiply this by 300 employees

The Solution

Why not develop a single orientation

approved by all the operating

companies?

Originally we were going to work on this

project for South Texas but it soon

became evident it needed to be industry

wide.

So…..

What Happened Next Was

Amazing!

Started meeting monthly to discuss safety

and health and officially formed the South

Texas Exploration and Production Safety

Network (STEPS) in 2004

What Happened Next Was

Amazing!

Entered into an alliance with OSHA

Corpus Christi area office.

In 2007 the concept spread to Oklahoma,

to West Texas, then from coast to coast to

include 22 networks

National STEPS Network

CaliforniaFar West Region

IllinoisIllinois STEPS

NSC Sept. 28, 2015

Founded in 2003All Volunteer Umbrella Org.Approx. 1700 CompaniesApprox. 17,000 Members

Members:

Operators, Contractors,

OSHA, NIOSH, API, IADC,

AESC, IPAA, Educators.

others

Template for any industry

“Foster a work environment

based upon mutual respect

and trust”

Method:

•Collaborate

•Research

• Standardize

• Simplify

• Educate

•COMMUNICATE

“Incident Free Operations”

“ Focus on the Boot”

TLoH, OF… www.nationalstepsnetwork.com

National STEPS Network

Twenty-Two networks

Eighteen producing states

Over 10,000 S&H Presentations

Over 150,000 attendees to date

Expanding

We were told this would never work!!

The Solution to the Orientation

Issue

Why do we have to attend orientations for each client when they are all basically saying the same thing?

> $2,000,000.00 per year spent on 90% redundant programs by different operating companies.

What could be done to reduce redundant safety orientations?

Founded in September, 2005 as an all-volunteer organization comprising of operating companies, contractors, industry associations, and educators.

Consortium of over forty operating companies requiring or accepting SLUSA

Cooperatively developed a hazards-based standardized orientation for the onshore E&P industry.

Three accrediting organizations; ETC, IADC and PEC

Eight Hours, 24 elements, Instructor-led, no more than 25 students in a class, 80% on a 100 question test to pass. Audited for quality control.

Tier One of Three

Photo ID cards are issued to students, similar to the contractor safety councils, and listed in a national searchable data base.

Approximately 875,000 have been through orientation to date since January, 2010.

We were told that this would never work.

Now working to expand into construction and other industry segments

Tier One of Three

Tier Two:

OSHA 5810 – Hazards Recognition and

Standards for On-Shore O&G Exploration

and Production

Tier Three: Leadership Course for Oil and Gas

Leaders

National STEPS Network

OSHA/NIOSH National Alliance

December 2, 2014

Associated Efforts

NIOSH NORA

National Occupational Regulatory Agenda

Council for O&G extraction

Research and reports in cooperation with

industry

FOG Database

Transportation Safety Agenda

Oil and Gas Worker Health Study

Cooperative/Alliance Efforts

Respirable Silica Focus Group

Engineering

IH Monitoring Team

Communications team

Silica in HF Video

Quick Fix Alert

2015: Emerging Issues Focus Group

Tank Gauging Fatalities

NIOSH and OSHA Research

Nine fatalities in two years

Emerging Issues Focus Group

Tank Gauging Hazard Alert

Hazard Alert: over 100,000 workers

reached – no additional fatalities

Our first Official Alliance Product

2013 - Oklahoma, N. Dakota, Region 6

2014 - OSHA Stand Down

Simulcast coast to coast

Over 70,000 workers trained

13,000 inspections

24,000 hazards

2013 US Onshore E&P Fatalities” Video

Planning the 2016 Step Up for Safety

Stand Downs

Other Efforts

OSHA Oil and Gas Safety and Health

Conference (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

Silica Data Project

OSHA/NIOSH/BV

Ebola Alert

Links

http://www.nationalstepsnetwork.com

http://www.safelandusa.org/

http://www.oshasafetyconference.org/

www.oshastanddown.org

www.rmecosha.com/5810.aspx

www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/councils/oilgas

Rickey.ingram1@bp.com cell: 361.816.7217

Mcgee.Marianne@dol.gov

• What is your motivation? - Dad

• What are others teaching our children?• What are we teaching our children and grandchildren?

• What will be our legacy?

• Would you want your kids working in your industry?

Questions?