Upstream Industry Collaboration Delivers Refreshed Life-Saving Rules

Abstract

The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) is a global upstream focused forum in which member companies identify and share best practices to achieve improvements in many areas including safety. In 2017, the IOGP launched an initiative called Project Safira with the aim of eliminating fatalities. One of the work streams within this project was to refresh, simplify and reduce the number of industry Life-Saving Rules to encourage industry standardization. The development of the original IOGP eight core and ten supplemental Life-Saving Rules was based on an analysis of thousands of fatal and high potential events. An industry team of subject matter experts, HSE, and operations professionals formed as a task force. This group conducted a comprehensive analysis of the latest 10 years of fatality data and developed an updated set incorporating the latest thinking on human performance and lessons learned from member companies’ experiences in implementation. From 2008 to 2017, 376 workers lost their lives in incidents that may have been prevented by following one of the new nine IOGP Life-Saving Rules. With the benefit of having an additional seven years of data and feedback from member companies on their adoption of the previous set of Life-Saving Rules, the IOGP has streamlined the original 18 rules down to nine, while retaining the level of applicability in fatality prevention. The Life-Saving Rules are not intended to replace company HSE management systems, but are rather aimed at complementing existing organizational processes and procedures. The rules provide simple actions in the form of ‘I statements’ which can provide a final barrier that individuals have control over, and by their own actions can prevent fatalities. Having the largest database of safety performance and fatality data in the upstream oil and gas industry, the IOGP has the ability to analyze trends and build on learning from fatal incidents on an industry-wide basis.

The Influence of Work Period and Work Location of Workers with Understanding of Corporate Life Saving Rules (CLSR) at Oil and Gas Fuel Terminal Companies in Indonesia

“…The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) issued a regulation called life saving rules (LSR) with the aim of the oil and gas industry being able to maximize risk mitigation and minimize the occurrence of work accidents, both material and fatal. Based on work accident data since 2020, there have been work accidents reaching 78% of fatal accidents and have been overcome by implementing life saving rules (Abanum et al, 2020;Alkhaldi, M, Pathirage, C and Kulatunga, 2017) with application in the oil and gas (oil and gas) industry sector, it can maximally comply with safety regulations, and risk management (Azhari et al, 2022;Walker et al, 2020).…”

“…Life saving rules are one of the occupational safety and health cultures through periodic intervention, if it is not maximized with a lack of management commitment and poor leadership in safety at work in a company, it is necessary to create awareness of the occupational health and safety management system in the company and knowledge of workers to achieve goals. work accident prevention (Abanum et al, 2020;Walker et al, 2020) Workers in the oil and gas sector are exposed to hazardous conditions and are always involved in high-risk activities, with the possibility of work accidents with the socialization of life saving rules on a regular basis with the aim of improving work safety to protect workers from all kinds of incidents (Dmitrievsky et al, 2020) Therefore, studies in this sector are imperative to increase knowledge among workers, which is very important for workers' awareness in securing energy assets, maintaining worker safety, and a green environment (Industri et al, 2021;Raut et al, 2018).…”