Step Onshore

CONIAC June 2008

Step Onshore

John MoranHead of ICT SCI

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In this presentation..

Step Change is …

What Step Change does

How Step Change is makes a difference

Can Step Change be extended onshore?

A user needs analysis exercise

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Construction slips again

RIDDOR rates of reported fatal injury to construction workers

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Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

Started in 1997

Oil and Gas industry trade associations

Objective: To reduce the UK offshore Oil and Gas industry injury rate by 50%.

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Offshore any better?

Lost Time Incident Frequency(includes fatalities)

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A collaboration of best practice and learning: Contractors Operators Trade associations Trade unions Regulator HSE

Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

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Step Change In Safety: Vision

“To make the UK the safest Oil and Gas Exploration and Production province in the world by 2010”

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Manual handling to heavy lifts

Step impacts all areas of safety

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Step Change in Safety website

Internet is the medium

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A community built on communication

Incident alerts are submitted directly by users

Moderated / facilitated by the Step Change team

Discussions are started and pursued in real time

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…………….Never stops pushing

It pushes incident and near-miss description ‘alerts’

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…………….Never stops pushing

It pushes current news and events

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…………….Never stops pushing

It provides the sector with shared resources

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It ‘pulls’………………………….

It ‘pulls’ debate and solutions

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…………….Never stops pushing

… pushes community solutions by return

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A safer community

Step Change has built a community who communicate health and safety

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Step Change usage

42,000 different users accessed last year

¼ million page requests per month

Nearly 200 new members join each month

17,000 members have contributed to 560 themes and 2,500 posts

Safety Alerts are sent to up to 3600 subscribers every day

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Step onshore – Extending collaboration

The offshore sector are keen to collaborate and share:

Because most safety incidents are independent of sector

To improve information flow to their sector

To increase the experience from which information is drawn

To generate greater leverage

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Step onshore – Extending collaboration

Ownership Step Change own offshore information SCI own dissemination platform ConstructionSkills would own onshore information

The Offshore sector would: Broadcast content to an equivalent Construction

system Accept, filter and re-broadcast content from an

equivalent Construction system

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Step onshore –Collaboration

Collaboration would be enabled by:

Construction Skills sponsorship of a Construction focussed system

Formation of an equivalent Construction Collaboration

Use of the same dissemination platform

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Step onshore – So no problems then?

Is there the will to do something?

Can Sector fragmentation be addressed?

Legal barriers?

Integration with existing information flows

Is there financial support?

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Step onshore – The prize

A positive influence on safety

A collaboration with LARGE ‘gravitational pull’

Engagement with important co-sponsors

Use of combined resources to develop services

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Step onshore – Engaging the sector

Is there the will to do something?

Who to talk to?

What are the key issues to address?

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