Industrial Safety and Risk Management
For a safety professional, how many times throughout your career have you ever heard, “but people don’t have any engineering or upstream O&G experience”? Well here’s my handle that!
The safety profession depends upon managing risks. Just about all industries (i. orite. Petroleum refining, upstream and also downstream, chemical plants or construction), safety professionals must develop and implement a culture that drives employees to analyze and assess all risks associated with each and every job task. Some recommended methods useful to manage risks are: Job Safety Analysis (JSAs), Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs) and Risk Assessments (RAs). The different mentioned methods of risk management are designed to identify hazards and then introduce control methods (engineering or administrative), to reduce or lesson the degree of the risk to an acceptable level.
Identification or assessment of hazards is a basic element in the toolbox of each safety professional. Just about all industries have inherent risks, a few unique to specific industries and some are common to just about all industries. Accordingly, safety professionals are able to walk into any industry, love in his/her toolbox and apply the standard principles of risk examination.
An additional colleague of mine reminded me that a few important factors must get play. That safety professional must find management commitment and buy-in from the employees. Once this is achieved, it’s some sort of matter of training supervisors and employees to the various methods of risk management. Once so many people are trained, after that risk assessments must become an every day work practice. It should become part of the permit system which consequently will drive risk examination. End result from this day-to-day process will foster a culture of proactivity.
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Industrial Safety and Risk Management 
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