POSITION MAY

STATEMENT 2022

Leading safety practices

in our industry

Introduction
IOGP is the global voice of the oil and gas industry, pioneering excellence in safe,
efficient and sustainable energy supply - an enabling partner for a low carbon future.
The Safety Committee is accountable for a wide scope of safety related activities and
sets the tone and direction for safety efforts in our global industry.
Project Safira, initiated in 2017, aimed to eliminate fatalities in our industry through work in four focus areas:
land transport, helicopter transport, process safety and standardization and application of the IOGP Life-Saving
Rules. Since Project Safira’s inception, there has been significant progress in reducing fatalities through the
development and effective application of Member resources, the development of practical tools and guides, and
the building of alliances with other industry bodies. But, as our data shows, fatal events, however reduced their
number, continue to occur, and therefore the Safety Committee felt it was time for a refocused direction.

The Committee convened a workshop to set a refreshed course for the next five years. This position statement
is intended to inform IOGP Members and other industry stakeholders of the output of that workshop to build
alignment and common purpose towards realizing our shared strategic objectives.

The Safety Committee’s strategic objective

The strategic objective of the IOGP Safety Committee (SC) is to eliminate fatalities in our industry and continue
to make our industry more resilient to our key major accident risks. The primary focus of effort for the SC itself,
in addition to supporting the work of the Subcommittees, is
• Support and champion implementation of IOGP Safety-related guidance documents.
• Enhance safety data to include leading indicators and a common human factors taxonomy
• Co-ordinate activities designed to improve safety culture, including human performance initiatives
• Use the unique insights gained to provide a general direction for safety in our industry

The Safety Committee delivers most of its output via workgroups under its Subcommittees, and by setting up
Task Forces to deliver ad-hoc work. The diagram below illustrates the current range of efforts:

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 Safety Committee
Strategic objectives: Data and insight, Implementation, Safety Culture and Human Performance

Contractor Major hazards in

Aviation Diving Geophysical HSSE Human Factors Land Transportation Process Safety Safety Data Lifting
Management energy transition

International Diving Contractor Barriers and

Offshore Helicopters IVMS PSF Life-Saving Rules
Industry Forum Management Human Factors
Unmanned Diving Roles Learning from Land Transportation Risk Assessment
Data
Aerial Vehicles and Training Normal Work Safety Guidance Data Directory

Aviation Data Diving Data Living Quarters 5 star NCAP Process Safety KPIs Start Work Checks

Process Safety
Sustainable Aviation Safety Culture Motor Vehicle Data FPI
in Design
Human Performance
Airworthiness Line of Fire Barrier Definitions Causal factors
Summit
Human Factors
Process Safety Data Industry learning
in Aviation

Mechanical integrity

Marine risks Fabrication site safety

Subcommittee Task Force Working group Network New activities

The workshop focused its efforts on addressing and identifying impactful opportunities in three areas of
upstream safety: personal safety, process safety, and transport safety. Throughout each area, the participants
were requested to maintain a focus on human performance opportunities.

For the Safety Committee’s new focus areas, the following activities were defined:

Implementation of IOGP guidance documents

• Develop and introduce an implementation assessment tool to monitor and encourage the implementation
of IOGP guidance among the Membership
• Focus initial implementation support activity on the following existing documents/tools:
– ­ IOGP Life-Saving Rules, including the Start Work Checks
– ­ Process Safety Fundamentals
– ­ Offshore Helicopter Recommended Practices, IOGP Report 690
– The
­ implementation of the NCAP 5-star rated vehicles across the totality of our land transport
operations
– Implementation
­ of Report 423 - HSE management guidelines for working together in a contract
environment and a standardized pre-qualification questionnaire for use in contracting processes.

Enhance safety data

• Establish an industry wide definition of ‘Fatal and Permanent Injury (FPI)’ and enable a shift to these as
the primary reporting metrics
• Establish an agreed human factors taxonomy to enable a common language for incident reporting that
reflects the latest human performance principles
• Encourage the move towards the use of leading safety indicators to highlight areas for action, measure
safety performance, and define learning from normal work

Co-ordinate safety culture and human performance initiatives

• Publish Human Performance Principles to inform the direction and work of all Subcommittees, seeking
first to align with other industry bodies so the principles become common across the industry
• Encourage cross-industry implementation of the human factors taxonomy

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Industry collaboration and shared direction
IOGP will continue to be guided by Project Safira’s goal of eliminating fatalities. We also believe environmental
stewardship is a shared imperative across our industry. We will therefore:
• Seek to engage other global trade associations, regulators, and the industry at large and influence the
industry towards a common direction; we will leverage the reach of others, including national-level
entities, towards that common goal
• Avoid duplication of guidance by maintaining an awareness of existing material and point companies to
sources of relevant material
• Work towards an industry wide CEO-led safety forum to listen and embed the shared direction across the
entire supply chain

A safer energy transition

We believe that there are new, or insufficiently understood, risks related to the ongoing energy transition. The
Safety Committee will identify and research these risks and provide operational guidance as appropriate. Over
time, we will ensure relevant industry-wide resources are available. Direction for this work will be sought from
the IOGP Energy Transition and Engineering Directorates. We will form a dedicated Task Force to commence
this effort.

We invite readers to take direction from our positions, engage your decision makers, and play your part in
making the industry safer.

More resources can be found here: www.iogp.org/oil-and-gas-safety/

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