A Rig Site Safety Working Group (RSSWG) Deep Dive project identified that most incident actions were administrative, and very few engineering controls were stipulated. The idea of a portal in which the Drilling and Completions (D&C) community could store and share engineering concepts to improve overall safety performance in the sector via our Engineering Solutions portal was born.
Engineering Controls implement physical solutions to our workplace or equipment to isolate workers from hazards and are central to the Hierarchy of Controls.
All our member companies at one time or another have developed and implemented an Engineering solution. It might be in response to an incident or safety alert. It might be part of continual improvement – spotting a potential hazard and engineering a solution to isolate people from that hazard.
Safer Together has now built an Engineering Solutions portal where best practice can be shared. Members can access a range of Engineering Solutions developed by industry and can share their own via an online submission.
High value learning events (HVLEs) often have engineering concepts as actions, some of which are appropriate to share with industry. Following consultation, the RSSWG identified the following objectives for the Engineering Solutions Portal:
- Share engineering concepts across industry.
- Hold each other accountable for implementing initiatives and removing duplication.
- Connect more with our members and providing on-the-ground support.
- Provide a platform for sharing resources.
- Leverage existing material to expedite solutions to common safety issues.
Intended also to reinvigorate and fast-track the sharing of HVLEs, to identify and be more effective in applying industry-wide learnings to prevent fatalities, the portal is designed to provide a ‘safe to fail’ work environment.
With members using the portal and by sharing engineering solutions, it is expected that a safer drilling and completions sector will evolve and a reduction in repeat incidents will follow, and it will help key learnings from incidents could be referred to when doing rig assurance work.
BUT - The portal is only as useful as the content on it! Please submit your Engineering Solutions – click on the ‘submit a resource’ link and complete the online form. Attach your file(s) and submit.
Once we receive it, we’ll cross-check the content, prepare the web imagery and put it live on the library for Safer Together member companies to access.
If you have any questions, or require further information about the Engineering Solutions portal – get in touch: [email protected].
If you have an engineering solution to upload, follow this link.