Conference Day One: 22 March, 2010

8:15-8:45 Registration

8:45-9:00 Chairmen’s Opening

Mark Ellington
HSE Director
Acergy

9:00-9:45 Opening Keynote Presentation Health And Safety In The 21st Century - Everyone Has A Role To Play

HSE has recently published a new strategy which makes clear that its roles include advice, guidance, inspection, investigation and enforcement but not management of health and safety. Management, and leadership, is down to employers and those who create the risks.

Gordon MacDonald
Director, Hazardous Installations
Health and Safety Executive

9:45-10:30 Improve Your Risk And QHSSE Performance With A World Class Tool.

Through good reports, vital experience transfer and excellent action tracking, Synergi facilitates both risk management and real HSEQ improvement. Hear from an end-user client how this system has been used in practice.

Speaker to be confirmed. Check the website for more details, www.upstreamsafety.co.uk

10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee And Networking Break

Break-out A: Influencing Behaviours

11:00-11:45 Behaviour Modification Techniques

With a workforce that could be set in its ways how do you override the ‘old’ way of thinking with a ‘new’ mindset? Identify:

Topics that meet particular resistance
Why workers are reticent to change
How to identify and tackle the root cause of their behaviour

Mike Finucane
HSE Manager
Maersk

11:45-12:30 Discussion Session Mindset: Tackling Complacency

If your installations haven’t had an incident in a while your might be more at risk than you think. With a successful record, in creeps complacency. Keep your personnel on the ball by improving:

Employee awareness of the risks associated with their actions
The use of physical demonstrations to increase awareness of risks

Led by your break-out chairman

Break-out B: Metrics, Metrics, Metrics

11:00-11:45 Lagging Indicators

Learn from all incidents and near misses, however great or small and ensure that issues uncovered are rectified immediately. Respond effectively by…

Prioritising incidents to learn from
Incorporating quantitative and qualitative information
Implement remedial action promptly

Peter Jordan
S&O Strategy & Performance Manager
BP

11:45-12:30 Discussion Session Metrics, Their Practicality

A set of metrics and KPIs may be well and good on paper and clearly they are useful reporting tools but how useful are they in practice? Key questions need to be asked:

What do metrics really mean at the coal face?
Do the metrics and KPIs have a genuine on the working practices offshore
What can be done to make some types of metrics more accessible

Led by your stream chairman

12:30-13:30 Lunch And Networking Break

13:30-14.15 Identifying Major Accident Hazards And Keeping Hydrocarbons Successfully Contained By Utilising Your Operational Knowledge

Exploring the most effective methods of hazard identification
Providing an insight into implementing the hazard identification process at each stage of your Process Safety System
Benefiting from successful examples of application in continual processes, providing you with the tools to implement the methods into your systems

Alan D’Ambrogio
Business Development Manager
ABB Engineering Services

14:15-15:30 An Insight Into The PSA’s 2010 Strategy

Your chance to speak to Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority about their approach to safety. The main focus of their work is the integration of the process safety culture and way of thinking into the operations on the Norwegian continental shelf. But you could ask questions such as:

The effects of EU legislation on future policy
The next area of concern for your local regulator
How regulators in different jurisdictions collaborate

Confirmed:

Magne Ognedal
Director Generale
Petroleum Safety Authority

15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea And Networking Break

16:00-16:45 Individual Behaviour Modification

Go beyond the improvement of your personnel’s collective behaviour to individual assessment

Use root cause analysis of incidents to inform your view of individual worker’s performance
Base further training and performance audits on results of analysis

Thomas Johanssen
Vice President QHSE
DONG Energy

16:45-17:30 Risk Communication

Presentation of OMVs adaptation of a Bow Tie system to provide an award winning pictorial safety communication tool. Key aspects of the programme include: