The Evolution of an Electronic Assessment for Evaluating Trip Risk, Compliance, Approval Level, and Tracking

Abstract

Driving continues to be the leading year-on-year cause of fatalities in the oil and gas industry despite the implementation of risk control actions such as driver training, skill assessments and basic journey management controls. An oilfield services company has introduced processes and tools to address the many challenges involved in journey management to improve its driving performance. The company drives approximately 1.5 million miles every day with over 50,000 drivers of varying experience who operate more than 24,000 vehicles of different and challenging sizes and applications that require different driving skills. It is a complex task to validate that the drivers are certified to drive these vehicles in the range of environments related to the locations where they work and the specific journeys to be made. To address this complexity, in 2009 the company introduced a web-based electronic journey management system called "eJourney" to help manage and standardize journey management across its worldwide operations. This paper describes how eJourney has evolved since its introduction and how it has become the centre of a consistent process that is compliant with the company's driving policy and driving standard. Furthermore, the paper looks at how the system supports accountability in the journey management process. It also describes how, over a one-year period, this simple web-based application has supported over 1.3 million trips and how the system has promoted a consistent and standardized process for creating a trip, monitoring the ongoing journey, and finally closing the journey. The paper also demonstrates how the online journey management outputs have become a visible counseling guide and a proactive tool in helping to reduce driving risks; and that this has been reflected in improvement in vehicle accident rates.!

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