Safety Metrics and Measures & Behavior-Based Safety

Safety Metrics & Measures

While learning what metrics are available in the O&G industry is important, the most crucial part is on what you do with the information that you have. This program will not only equip participants with the knowledge on what metrics to use, but also with the skills on how to utilize these data for the improvement of your safety & business performance.

Quantitative and qualitative safety metrics will be tackled. Participants will learn about trailing indicators & leading indicators, which will be useful for revealing safety improvement  opportunities. Moreover, Delegates will learn about economic and technical ratios, system audits, composite formulations, and statistical and partial maintenance productivity indices. No specific set of metrics can be applicable to all operational activities. As such, this course takes an “adaptive” approach, focusing more on how you can apply metrics which best fit your operations. Case studies and intensive work sessions will be conducted to provide an avenue for knowledge exchange among industry peers.

Behavior-Based Safety

Accidents are more often the result of workplace culture than any other factors combined. This course will help participants understand well-managed behavior-based safety system that can improve the profitability and the organization’s operational efficiency. This program upholds above all else, a “Safety-First” culture. This will be presented through various techniques in generating developing, and maintaining a BBS management system that will be able to resolve risky behaviors.

The program will look at how many current risk management processes “set up” the workforce for failure, and then the impact this environment has on the workforce culture and individuals behaviors. In a workshop-style training environment, we identify the “bigger picture” regarding poor workplace morale and the impact it has on workplace operations and operational costs. Several case studies will be discussed in order to learn from past catastrophic incidents in the oil and gas industry. Moreover, in-depth class discussion will be facilitated to promote a good exchange of first-hand field knowledge amongst delegates.

DAY 1

• Purpose of Workshop on Metrics and Measurements
• Why do we take measurements?
• Common Forms of Measurements
• Common Errors in Measurements
• Management Science and the Drive to Measure
• Types of Measurements
• Tools Used in Measurements
• Types of Lagging Indicators (Retrospective)
• Types of Leading Indicators (Prospective)
• Work Session: Share key measures and metrics used by your company. Critique what you see that could be improved in how measurements and metrics are implemented.

DAY 2

• Review of Work Session:
  Group discussion on current safety metrics implemented in your company.
• Near-Miss Management
• Rate Adjusted Metrics
• Industry Process Safety Metrics & Their Implications
• Frequency of Data Measurement
• Representing and Sharing Data
• Significance and Data Analysis
• When Management Fails to Understand or Misleads
• When Stakeholders Fail to Understand or Encourages
• How Corporate Structures address and work with Measures
• Process Industry Trends in Metrics and Measures
• Work Session: Using tools learned today, analyze your most serious measurement challenge, and come to Day 3 prepared to discuss your potential solution to the problem you face. Be prepared to discuss this with the entire class. Change any descriptors as needed to assure confidentiality.

DAY 3

• Using an Example of how US Chemical Safety Board uses metrics to improve
• Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Improvement Case Studies
• Using Data to Set Goals
• Choosing a CI System
• Next Steps for Your Firm’s Metrics and Measurements Effort
• Summary & Conclusion

DAY 4

• Foundation of Behavior-Based Safety (BBS)
• Safety Culture & Behavior-Based Safety
• Behavioral Safety Process
• Behavioral Analysis & Change Program
• BBS & Leaders
• BBS Systems
• Continuous Improvement & BBS
• Goal Setting for BBS System
• BBS & Your Company’s Values & Principles
• Case Study #1:
  Review of the Texas City Explosion of 2005 and identify the Indicators

DAY5

• BBS & Your Standards of Operation (Observing & Intervention)
• Indentifying Patterns in Behavioral Recordings
• Case Study 2: Deepwater Horizon – What elements of BBS were present and were missing?
• Holding Management Accountable & Leaders Involvement
• BBS & HR System
• Key Safety Systems Need to Support the Change
• Evaluating the Tactics in Motivating Behavior
• Developing your Personalized Plan for Improving BBS
  Work Session: Map out your next steps “Back At”

Deborah Grubbe is a well-known consultant with over 30 years of experience in disciplined operations of manufacturing, safety, and engineering across industries including the oil and gas. She has served as Vice–President of Group Safety for BP Global in London, and her term in BP was considered to be the safest years ever for the company. She has also served as Vice-President for Safety Change Management in BP in the US, handling 5 refineries which had the highest need for safety improvement. Moreover, she is well-experienced in the characteristics of safe operations during her 27 years at DuPont. She has held corporate director position in safety, operations, and engineering. Aside from her industry experience, she is also a lecturer for Process Safety Management at Purdue University since 2008.

Her organizational affiliations spans across governmental, industrial and technical, and education bodies:

- US National Safety Council, Board of Trustee (Present)

- International Safety Council, Board of Directors (Previous)

- American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Board of Directors (Previous)

- Center for Chemical Process Safety (Previous)

- National Society of Professional Engineers, Vice Chair (Previous)

- State of Delaware Registration Board for Professional Engineers (Previous)

- American Society of Safety Engineer Member (Present)

Deborah Grubbe is currently the owner and principal consultant of Operations and Safety Solutions LLC, a consultancy firm which specializes in safety and operations troubleshooting and support, with her major clients including Shell and Dupont. She also serves in Purdue University College of Engineering as member of Dean’s Advisory Council, Process Safety Management Course Developer, and Lecturer. She is currently a member of the Board of Advisors and a lecturer for the University of Alabama-Birmingham Advanced Safety and Engineering Management Master’s Program.