“We started with this project in 2008 and it continued until February 2018. It took us ten years to convince everyone involved of our ambition and of the way in which we wanted to achieve it, which included professionalism, quality and work safety”, says Theo Bergers, Chief Operations Officer at ONE. You can read more about this project in HSElife Magazine October 2011 (No 4).

Working at a plant is never without risk. Preventing operational incidents requires an array of technical provisions organizational measures. But that is not enough. The individual responsibility of each person present at the plant is another vital part of incident prevention. Taking responsibility means more than just knowing the rules and requirements: only fully understanding and complying with these rules and requirements will ensure a safe working climate and the prevention of damage to the environment. The project A WAY OF LIVING made HSE rules and procedures more accessible for employees and contractors at plants, enabling them to act more responsibly in the workplace.

Spirit Energy (Centrica) envisions a future in which HSE and optimal performance are in harmony. A future in which HSEQ is part of employee DNA, and in which a new corporate culture has fully embraced it. INCIDENT-FREE OPERATIONS in a culture in which HSEQ is as important as eating, sleeping and breathing. In HSElife Magazine No 6, you can find more information about Incident-Free Operations.

TAQA has spent a year working with the campaign SAFETY AS A CULTURE. The campaign was designed to alert employees to their HSE responsibilities, with the aim of raising knowledge levels and stimulating involvement. More importantly, it encourages everyone to come up with suggestions that will lead to improvements in procedures and working methods. Working safely is something you do together!

When a reputation is at stake, it is necessary to realize ‘operational excellence’. Processes are best optimized when the various divisions involved achieve maximum synergy. Co-workers become team mates, joining forces as the components of a well-oiled machine. Barriers become challenges to overcome together. Individual performances become the building blocks of a joint excellence worth seeing! In WINZ STEPS UP TO THE FUTURE, we used a succession of highly varied campaigns to guide employees towards an innovative way of working

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Being serious about safety means striving for continuous improvement. An open discussion – in the workplace – can significantly contribute to increasing risk awareness, and therefore to work safety. Starting up a conversation with each other sounds so simple – and in theory it is. But making it actually happen is not always so easy. Bringing parties together once in a while increases a mutual understanding of each other’s tasks and working conditions. It calls for a shared willingness to listen to each other and to learn with and from one another. SMAT is a communication trajectory that supports this kind of development. It contributes substantially to increasing risk awareness by allowing employees in various positions to talk one-on-one with each other about risks.

HSE issued, and how they are handled, play an important role in the assessment and selection of operators. Explicitly asking people to pay attention to rules is a must. The same applies to motivating people on and offshore to come to grips and comply with HSE regulations. After all, in a culture in which alertness comes first, everyone benefits. With the HIGH FIVE campaign, we significantly increased awareness of the rules. The campaign also generated hundreds of suggestions for improving HSE performance – thus providing ample evidence of project engagement.