ESSO AUSTRALIA APPROACH TO OFFSHORE SAFETY CASES

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
R.S. Gill.
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Major Incidents ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
Adequate Provision ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Case Structure

Following major incidents and a worldwide trend to a more structured approach to managing offshore safety, the Australian Government has regulated for the preparation of Safety Cases for all new offshore projects which commence design work after 1 July 1992. The Safety Case is required to demonstrate that safety management systems are adequate to ensure design, construction and operation of the installation are safe, that potential major hazards have been identified and appropriate controls are provided to ensure that risks are as low as reasonably practicable, and that adequate provision has been made for safe evacuation, escape and rescue. The safety case should be prepared using a balanced approach that results in a practical and value-added case.This paper summarises the approach adopted by Esso Australia in the preparation of safety cases for two new Bass Strait developments. It specifically covers the development of detailed internal guidelines for use in preparing safety cases, the safety case structure, content and emphasis, and includes examples to illustrate the key aspects of the Esso Australia Safety Case approach. The methodology described provides an effective means of achieving the objectives of a safety case.

BASS STRAIT OFFSHORE FACILITY SAFETY CASES: A CASE STUDY ON EFFECTIVE WORKFORCE INVOLVEMENT IN THE MODERN SAFETY CASE REGIME

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
M.C. Greenwood ◽  
D.C. Tyler ◽  
M.A. Newton ◽  
N.V. Clarke ◽  
J.J. Hayes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
Planning Development

In 2001, Esso submitted 18 different Bass Strait Facility Safety Cases as part of their five year revision cycle, and obtained regulatory acceptance for each of them. These revised safety cases incorporated the accumulated learning from our many previous offshore safety case submissions, the 1998 Longford accident and our work with the WorkSafe Victoria Major Hazards Division. A number of significant challenges were met and overcome. This paper discusses our experiences and describes the processes we used to successfully develop useful, easy to use living safety cases for our offshore workforce.Although our priority was to demonstrate that we knew our facilities, had identified hazards, assessed the risks associated with those hazards and had control measures in place to reduce those risks to as low as reasonably practicable, we also wanted to bring about behavioural change. This paper will explain how our safety case revision processes were used to successfully change workforce behaviours with consequent changes to collective attitudes and values across the organisation.Extensive and highly effective employee involvement was integral to all stages of the safety case planning and development process. The paper examines how a skilled team comprising a workforce-elected Health and Safety Representative, an Offshore Installation Manager and specialist safety professionals collaborated to deliver a true program of workforce involvement and buy-in that in turn delivered the behavioural changes necessary for a true safety case culture to flourish.Esso’s approach of developing a safety case as a shopfloor friendly tool highlighting the linkages between routinely used safety management system controls and the major accident event risks present at the workplace has delivered significant benefit in developing a risk averse health and safety culture. A comprehensive ongoing learning program designed to give the workforce the knowledge, skills and confidence needed to use the safety case to maximum advantage, has been developed as a key component of our safety case program. This paper explores the successful planning, development and implementation of this innovative learning program that has been widely recognised by regulators and industry.

Opportunities for developing value-added brassica seed

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Van De Jong ◽  
B.E. Braithwaite ◽  
T.L. Roush ◽  
A. Stewart ◽  
J.G. Hampton
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Common Disease ◽  
Black Rot ◽  
Crop Losses

New Zealand produces approximately 5,500 tonnes of brassica seed per year, two thirds of which, valued at $13M, is exported. Black rot caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris is a common disease of brassicas, and while crop losses are not extensive in New Zealand, internationally total crop losses have been reported. Seeds are the primary source of inoculum and the ease with which this inoculum spreads means that even small traces can cause severe epidemics. Genetic resistance to black rot is a complex trait which makes breeding for resistance in brassicas challenging. The effectiveness of chemical and cultural practices is variable. Biological control with natural antagonistic microbes may provide a more effective means of controlling black rot and other pests and diseases, and create opportunities for increasing the export value of brassica seed. Current cultural practices and the potential for biological control for the management of black rot are reviewed. Keywords: biocontrol, Brassicaceae, crucifer

scholarly journals Should healthcare providers do safety cases? Lessons from a cross-industry review of safety case practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Sujan ◽  
Ibrahim Habli ◽  
Tim P. Kelly ◽  
Simone Pozzi ◽  
Christopher W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Safety Cases

Construction safety case (MAP) – a strategy for successful implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
Roberta Selleck
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Near Miss ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Operations And Maintenance ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Operating Limits ◽  
Safety Cases

The Critical Control Management (CCM) methodology has emerged in the construction and mining industries as a ‘safety case’ to manage personal safety risks associated with high-risk activities. The construction-based Major Accident Prevention (MAP) program has been implemented on oil and gas projects since early 2016 and has been tested in greenfields, brownfields, operations and maintenance, and hook-up and commissioning environments. Since implementing the MAP program, a reduction in high potential ‘near miss’ events and a reduction of all injuries has been observed. Within the Clough organisation, four projects that are near completion have zero injuries. MAP works by providing the specific standards (rules), in a similar manner to ‘operating limits’ used in process control systems, to ensure critical control integrity. Through these specific standards, MAP eliminates substandard field work practices becoming normalised and MAP empowers field supervisors and even line employees to ‘stop work’ when critical control standards are not met in the field. Based on widely accepted organisational change principles, a framework for successfully implementing CCM has been developed. The framework is critical to successfully implementing and executing construction safety cases in a proactive manner. This paper explores what comprises CCM and the key attributes contributing to successful implementation.

How a major incident plan can be used in an acute healthcare setting

2018 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Makin ◽  
L Smith ◽  
K McDevitt
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The Body ◽  
Major Incident ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Major Incidents ◽  
Infrastructure Failure ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Acute Healthcare

All NHS Trusts face a diverse range of potential threats and disruptions that can overwhelm the delivery of their routine healthcare services. Major incidents range from significant infrastructure failure to responding to significant casualty numbers from natural disasters and malicious incidents. Major incident plans are one of the body of documents that support trusts and in this instance acute NHS trusts in emergency preparedness. Major incident plans can be used as a reference point for staff of all disciplines, that is, clinical and non-clinical. Major incident plans incorporate the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 for NHS-funded providers to ensure trusts conduct risk assessments, emergency planning, cooperating with other organisations, and internal and external communication. This paper summarises some of the key aspects in the construction and the use of major incident plans in acute care trusts.

Networking of Digital Twins in the Digital Factory for Single Part Manufacturing Simulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Olbort ◽  
Vladimir Kutscher ◽  
Maximilian Moser ◽  
Reiner Anderl
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Digital Factory ◽  
Manufacturing Simulation ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
A Value ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Single Part

Abstract Organizing manufacturing in dynamic networks instead of inflexible production lines is one of the key aspects of Industry 4.0. This should serve to realize automation and effectiveness to a higher degree than previously achievable. For this modernization, Cyber-Physical Systems should be utilized, where a Digital Twin mirrors the behavior of its Physical Twin and makes the data during manufacturing externally available via communication interfaces. This Digital Twin should be an instantiation of a Digital Master, which must meet the requirements for communication in dynamically changing value-added networks. The networking capability of objects requires semantic information. This information is associated with rules for decision making within a value-added network. This paper addresses the need for research on how to add networking capabilities during the development of Digital Masters. With these added capabilities, the communication between Digital Masters and Twins in terms of a single part manufacturing simulation should be verifiable in a Digital Factory. For this purpose, the concept of this paper aims to outline guidelines on how to add networking capabilities to the single part, machines and other resources needed during manufacturing.

SAFETY IN THE OFFSHORE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: THE NEW REGIME

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Glenn Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Work Place ◽  
System Control ◽  
Guidance Document ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
Offshore Petroleum

Following the recommendations of the UK Cullen and COSOP reports, a new regulatory and operational safety regime is being introduced across Australian territorial waters for the offshore petroleum industry. This paper details the concepts behind the new regime including the development and implementation strategies employed to introduce it and the implications to industry and government instrumentalities. The recognition that safety in the work place is an outcome of managerial commitment and a function of work system control is resulting in legislative reforms that will reduce the focus on physical compliance, in favour of a goal-setting legislative approach that places emphasis on systems of managing safety at the work place. By focussing upon ends rather than means, objective based regulation requires organisations to manage the design, construction and operation of facilities to reduce risk to a 'reasonably practicable level*. The details of the management arrangements and risk assessment studies once submitted in a 'safety case' and acknowledged by the regulator, form a co-regulatory guidance document that sets both the standards to be achieved and the mechanism for achieving them. Auditing of the operator against an accepted safety case will occur on a regular basis. Driven by measurement of an operator's safety performance, selected systems will be targeted and audited against the safety case by a team of auditors composed of both government inspectors and operator personnel. Performance measures will be both proactive and reactive in nature and include among other measures, results obtained through the newly created national data base for incidents and accidents. Preparation and assessment of safety cases provides regulators and operators alike with difficulties. Consistency of assessment and objective determination that acceptable minimum standards have been met provide a challenge to government agencies and to the petroleum industry. Recognition of the nature of this challenge has led to the adoption of Quality Management principles among government utilities. A key feature of the Quality Management System will be the introduction of systems that drive change through cyclic updates of the safety case assessment procedures.The safety case concept institutionalises a dialogue between regulator and operator that will facilitate the preparation, submission and assessment of the safety case. This initiative provides for a staged submission process to correspond to the development phase of the facility. It is considered that this methodology will ensure minimal delays in assessment and provide certainty in the business planning process. The new safety case regime provides for a greater level of employee participation both in the preparation of safety cases and the maintenance of safety at the work place. Transparency of approach by both operators and regulators will be needed if public and workforce confidence are to be maintained. Co-operation and continual improvement will hopefully be the hall mark of the Australian safety case regime.

Key Aspects of the H12 Safety Case

2000 ◽  
Vol 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Umeki
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
General Public ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
Safety Case ◽  
Geological Formation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Key Aspects

ABSTRACTIn Japan, as outlined in the overall high-level radioactive waste (HLW) management program defined by the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission (AEC, 1994), HLW from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel will be immobilized in a glass matrix and stored for a period of 30 to 50 years to allow cooling. It will then be disposed of in a deep geological formation. Pursuant to the overall HLW management program, an organization with responsibility for implementing HLW disposal will be established around the year 2000. This will be followed by site selection and characterization, demonstration of disposal technology, establishment of the necessary legal infrastructure, relevant licensing applications and repository construction, with the objective of starting repository operation by the 2030s and no later than the mid 2040s.The HLW disposal program is currently in the research and development (R&D) phase and the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) has been assigned as the leading organization responsible for R&D activities. The aim of the R&D activities at the current stage is to provide a scientific and technical basis for the geological disposal of HLW in Japan and to promote understanding of the safety concept not only in the scientific and technical community but also by the general public. One of the features of the R&D program is that its progress is documented at appropriate intervals, with a view to clearly determining the level of achievement of the program and to promote understanding and acceptance of the geological disposal strategy by the general public. As a major milestone, the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC, now JNC) submitted a first progress report, referred to as H3 (PNC, 1992), in September 1992.

Research on integrated product service system driven by customer value based on ontology technology

Kybernetes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (06) ◽  
pp. 1039-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haihua Zhu ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
James Gao ◽  
Weihua Lu
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Service System ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Product Service System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Service Blueprint

Purpose With the customers’ increasing expectation on the product value, manufacturing enterprises around the world have made significant efforts to provide high value-added services in addition to their traditional product development and manufacturing business. For this reason, it is of great importance to research product service system. The purpose of this paper is to research on the key problem of integrated product service system (IPSS) design. Design/methodology/approach A value-oriented IPSS is developed, which is set up based on “requirements-functions-processes-structures” mapping model to give full consideration to customer value and service functions. An extended product-service blueprint, which stems from the service blueprint, is developed to describe product behaviors, service deliver processes, stakeholders’ activities and supporting activities. An ontology-based design support system is proposed to improve design efficiency and help designers making better-informed decisions. A computer-aided prototype system has been developed, and an initial attempt has been made to demonstrate the role of IPSS in the aerospace industry. Findings Many traditional design methods cannot effectively address the objects and processes integration problem of products and services. Moreover, both product and service should be considered in IPSS design, and both of them extremely depend on designers’ own experience and knowledge. Thus, a broader range of knowledge is required to understand product-service system (PSS) design. Research limitations/implications This research provides a solid foundation for PSS C and promotes an effective means for PSS design. Originality/value A customer value-oriented IPSS is presented. Customer requirements are considered during the design phase of PSS as well as both product and service knowledge.

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