Electronic Journey Management—A Web-Based Approach to Journey Management

Abstract

Land transport-related activities continue to be the most hazardous activities performed in the oil and gas industry year on year. This is reflected in the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) yearly safety-performance indicators report, in which vehicle incidents are cited as the single biggest cause of fatal accidents. Much has been done to improve the motor vehicle crash rate (MVCR) by addressing vehicle technical safety standards, implementing a journey management (JM) process, providing driver training, implementing driver improvement monitors, and working on the behavior of drivers. Among these listed key control measures, the JM process is often poorly or inconsistently implemented, resulting in accidents that could have been otherwise prevented. Too frequently, best practices are not implemented universally or are dropped because of a lack of situational understanding. Over time, internally managed processes have a tendency to degrade. This paper presents the learnings from an oilfield services company's introduction of a web-based journey management application that was developed to promote a consistent and standardized process flow for creating a trip, assessing the risks of the trip, approving the trip, and monitoring the trip before finally closing the trip. Additional benefits of such an electronic JM approach include the capability to more easily measure and monitor deviations from a company's JM standard and the visibility to enforce accountability during the journey approval process.