My Shell My Job HR Online Services My News Goal Zero in Action I Like It Subscribe to this news source Article Details Yuxuan Liu February 16, 2015 No Attachment 247 0 2 This article was originally published here Article Links “Journey to Goal Zero”. Ben Salutes top performers Link to original article Related Articles Helping our partner save lives…and winning! When Shell commits to its “In China, for China” strategy, it means much more than just providing the world’s most populous country with more and cleaner energy. One of the continuous efforts is “doing the right thing” for and with its partners to keep everyone safe. And that is exactly why a Shell China team has grabbed the prestigious CEO’s HSSE & SP Award. When one of the main partners of Shell decided to make fundamental changes to its HSSE management and improve the site’s safety performance, they knew where to turn to: Shell. The energy giant mobilized its best safety talents to PCSW, a branch company of Shell’s global strategic partner CNPC. The three-year project has made a real difference by transforming PCSW’s safety culture and significantly elevating its safety performance on the journey to “Goal Zero”. See how the award-winning project team has made that possible… Project Team of HSSE Cooperation between Shell and PCSW Receive Award from CEO Ben Call of Duty Zhou Xingchen and Leo Li, two veteran HSSE Advisors of Shell, were chosen to undertake the tremendous task of helping PCSW back in 2011. Despite substantial experience in safety management in oil and gas industry, Zhou and Li knew from the very beginning their challenges would be daunting in a company at the magnitude of PCSW - a workforce of over 40, 000 and 150 subsidiaries as well as larger number of contractors, scattered in a territory of 190,000 square kilometers geographically. They took on the challenge, knowing it would be an opportunity to have a real impact in a major NOC in a country where tragic incidents in oil and gas industry often make newspaper headlines. What they did not know at that time, however, was how challenging – and rewarding – the marathon journey could be. The breakthrough When Zhou Xingchen first came to PCSW, he found the huge differences between the two companies ‘almost overwhelming’. Despite complexity and high-risk of its operations, the company’s HSSE system and culture proved too weak to prevent incidents from striking. Some of the most prominent challenges included impractical HSSE management system, inconsistent and ineffective implementations of HSSE measures, prevailing non-compliance culture, workers’ low awareness and incompetence of HSSE enforcements. What had forged PCSW’s resolve to make fundamental changes was the saddening number of fatalities every year. PCSW Vice President Liao Shimeng knew it was time for transformation: “We invited Shell to assess our HSE management and identify our weaknesses; much like a doctor conducts a thorough check-up. Based on the assessment results, we pinned down the direction and plan for improvement together.” Xingchen began to work on the breakthroughs immediately upon his arrival at the company. “80% of their incidents occurred in onsite activities. Therefore, we all agreed to start with ‘Permit to Work’ for overall HSE improvement.” he said. Simply duplicating Shell’s HSSE system and pasting it to PCSW would be little use, as the underlying truth is PCSW is a different environment and culture from Shell. Hence, Zhou, with his 20-year experience in project management and 12-year safety management expertise at Shell, led the PTW team to a quest of tailoring Shell’s HSSE system to PCSW’s day-to-day operations. Zhou and the team travelled from one site to another, observing workers’ operational activities, talking to people on the ground and identifying job hazards in great detail. The team’s efforts and profound research paid off as the tailor-made PTW finally took shape. The Art of Implementation Having a great system is one thing, implementing it effectively on the site is quite another. The next massive challenge was to ensure every operational activity onsite could 100 percent comply with the PTW – the solutions crystallized along with the implementation plan, including PTW execution integrated with individual performance management, intensive and seamless training and coaching in classroom and onsite, quarterly quantitative auditing and benchmarking as well as leadership execution caliber at various levels. Page 1 of 4 Helping our partner save lives…and winning! 2015/2/20 https://eu005-sp.shell.com/news/goalzeroaction/article.aspx?ArticleID=683
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Yuxuan Liu
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Ben Salutes top performers
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Helping our partner save lives…and winning!When Shell commits to its “In China, for China” strategy, it means much more than just providing the world’s most populous country with more and cleaner energy. One of the continuous efforts is “doing the right thing” for and with its partners to keep everyone safe. And that is exactly why a Shell China team has grabbed the prestigious CEO’s HSSE & SP Award.
When one of the main partners of Shell decided to make fundamental changes to its HSSE management and improve the site’s safety performance,
they knew where to turn to: Shell. The energy giant mobilized its best safety talents to PCSW, a branch company of Shell’s global strategic partner
CNPC. The threeyear project has made a real difference by transforming PCSW’s safety culture and significantly elevating its safety performance on
the journey to “Goal Zero”. See how the awardwinning project team has made that possible…
Project Team of HSSE Cooperation between Shell and PCSW Receive Award from CEO Ben
Call of Duty
Zhou Xingchen and Leo Li, two veteran HSSE Advisors of Shell, were chosen to undertake the tremendous task of helping PCSW back in 2011. Despite
substantial experience in safety management in oil and gas industry, Zhou and Li knew from the very beginning their challenges would be daunting in
a company at the magnitude of PCSW a workforce of over 40, 000 and 150 subsidiaries as well as larger number of contractors, scattered in a
territory of 190,000 square kilometers geographically. They took on the challenge, knowing it would be an opportunity to have a real impact in a
major NOC in a country where tragic incidents in oil and gas industry often make newspaper headlines. What they did not know at that time,
however, was how challenging – and rewarding – the marathon journey could be.
The breakthrough
When Zhou Xingchen first came to PCSW, he found the huge differences between the two companies ‘almost overwhelming’.
Despite complexity and highrisk of its operations, the company’s HSSE system and culture proved too weak to prevent incidents from striking. Some
of the most prominent challenges included impractical HSSE management system, inconsistent and ineffective implementations of HSSE measures,
prevailing noncompliance culture, workers’ low awareness and incompetence of HSSE enforcements. What had forged PCSW’s resolve to make
fundamental changes was the saddening number of fatalities every year.
PCSW Vice President Liao Shimeng knew it was time for transformation: “We invited Shell to assess our HSE management and identify our
weaknesses; much like a doctor conducts a thorough checkup. Based on the assessment results, we pinned down the direction and plan for
improvement together.”
Xingchen began to work on the breakthroughs immediately upon his arrival at the company. “80% of their incidents occurred in onsite activities.
Therefore, we all agreed to start with ‘Permit to Work’ for overall HSE improvement.” he said.
Simply duplicating Shell’s HSSE system and pasting it to PCSW would be little use, as the underlying truth is PCSW is a different environment and
culture from Shell. Hence, Zhou, with his 20year experience in project management and 12year safety management expertise at Shell, led the PTW
team to a quest of tailoring Shell’s HSSE system to PCSW’s daytoday operations. Zhou and the team travelled from one site to another, observing
workers’ operational activities, talking to people on the ground and identifying job hazards in great detail. The team’s efforts and profound research
paid off as the tailormade PTW finally took shape.
The Art of Implementation
Having a great system is one thing, implementing it effectively on the site is quite another. The next massive challenge was to ensure every
operational activity onsite could 100 percent comply with the PTW – the solutions crystallized along with the implementation plan, including PTW
execution integrated with individual performance management, intensive and seamless training and coaching in classroom and onsite, quarterly
quantitative auditing and benchmarking as well as leadership execution caliber at various levels.
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