The Step Change in Safety John Moran Head

The Step Change in Safety John Moran Head of ICT SCI Construction Skills H&S E Committe

In this presentation. . About SCI – ICT What is Step Change? What does the Step Change platform do? How? The collaborative offer Construction Skills User Needs Analysis Construction Skills H&S E Committe 2

About 30 Commercial Products Construction Skills H&S E Committe 3

Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Started in 1997 Oil and Gas industry trade associations Original Objective: To reduce the UK offshore Oil and Gas industry injury rate by 50%. Construction Skills H&S E Committe 4

Offshore any better? Lost Time Incident Frequency (includes fatalities) Construction Skills H&S E Committe 5

Who are “Step Change In Safety”? Unique industry partnership of Operators, Contractors, Trade Associations, Unions and Regulator Leadership Team of 30 Industry MDs/Leaders No enforcement capability Construction Skills H&S E Committe 6

Step Change In Safety: Vision Workgroups: Asset Integrity Competence Control of Work Visible Leadership In 2010, the UK is the safest place to work in the worldwide Oil and Gas Industry Recognise Hazard and Reduce Risk Personal Ownership for Safety Asset Integrity Identifying, Understanding and Dealing with Hazards Making safety personal by demonstrating commitment and competence throughout the organisation. Maintaining Hardware to be Safe, Reliable and Efficient Ownership and Involvement at all Levels Leadership Communication Cooperation Construction Skills H&S E Committe 7

Form manual handling to heavy lifts Step impacts all areas of safety Construction Skills H&S E Committe 8

Internet is the medium Step Change in Safety website Construction Skills H&S E Committe 9

Step Change usage 42, 000 different users accessed last year ¼ million page requests per month Nearly 200 new members join each month 17, 000 members have contributed to 560 themes and 2, 500 posts Safety Alerts are sent to up to 3600 subscribers every day Construction Skills H&S E Committe 10

Organisation Construction Skills H&S E Committe 11

System Architecture-Community Server Construction Skills H&S E Committe 12

The Site News, events, Incident Alerts, Resources, Discussions All interlinked All ‘Themed’ All cross-searchable Construction Skills H&S E Committe 13

The Site Theme and profile filters can be applied Construction Skills H&S E Committe 14

The Registered User Simple registration - allowance for profiles Registration permits authoring of Alerts, News and Events and access to Discussions Site responds to profile Pushed content by profile Construction Skills H&S E Committe 15

The Administrative Users An administrative console for control of: ð Usersroles ð Incident Alert authors ð News/Events/Resources approval ð Incident Alerts approval ð Moderation of discussion areas ð Moderation of daily bulletins ð Statistics reporting Construction Skills H&S E Committe 16

Step onshore – Extending collaboration The offshore sector are keen to collaborate and share: ðBecause most safety incidents are independent of sector ðTo improve information flow to their sector ðTo increase the experience from which information is drawn ðTo generate greater leverage Construction Skills H&S E Committe 17

Step onshore – Extending collaboration Ownership ð Step Change own offshore information ð SCI own dissemination platform ð ‘Construction’ would own their own information The Offshore sector would: ðBroadcast content to an equivalent Construction system ðAccept, filter and re-broadcast content from an equivalent Construction system Construction Skills H&S E Committe 18

Step onshore – Collaboration is being enabled by: ðConstruction Skills sponsorship of a Construction focussed system ðUse of the same dissemination platform Requires a central ‘Step Change Team’ Construction Skills H&S E Committe 19

Step onshore – So no problems then? The will to do something? Sector fragmentation Legal barriers Integration with existing information flows Financial support? Construction Skills H&S E Committe 20

User Needs Analysis Presentation Meetings held with: ð Construction Industry Council ð Step Change ð CONIAC ð MCG – H& S Committee (under auspices of CC) ð I H S - OHSIS personnel ð Ten Alps – advertising sales agency ‘One-to-ones’ ð Federation of Master Builders ð Grain LNG Project H&S Management ð HSE ð SCOSS Construction Skills H&S E Committe 21

User Needs Analysis – to do Presentation Meetings with: ðICE H & S Panel ðRIBA H & S Committee ðBIA ðPlenary – invitees + HSE + Minister ‘One-to-ones’ ðParliamentary representation ðHouse Builders’ Federation ðIHS ðHSE Construction Skills H&S E Committe 22

Emerging Federated Model Themed sites Construction Skills H&S E Committe 23

Emerging Federated Model – input side Federated authoring Construction Skills H&S E Committe 24

Step onshore – The prize A positive influence on safety A collaboration with LARGE ‘gravitational pull’ Engagement with important co-sponsors Use of combined resources to develop services Construction Skills H&S E Committe 25

John Moran j. moran@steel-sci. com Construction Skills H&S E Committe 26