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Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA)

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Petr etroleum

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Safety ety Authorit uthority

• Established in 1972 as part of the Norwegian Petroleum

Directorate

• Independent regulator from 2004
• Responsible for supervising safety and the working

environment in the petroleum industry

• Report to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• About 170 employees

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Ov Over erall all goal goal

“The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway will set the terms for and follow up that players in the petroleum industry maintain a high level of health, safety and the environment and emergency preparedness, and thereby also contribute to creating the highest possible value for society”

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• PSA’s regulatory approach in promoting sound risk

management processes for employee groups exposed to risk of suffering injury or occupational illnesses within the

• il and gas industry.
• Present results from regulatory activities

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xposed to risk ed to risk 2007 2007- 2014 2014

• One of the Petroleum Safety Authority’s (PSA) main priorities

since 2007

• Goals:
• Contribute to that the companies in the petroleum industry develop a

unified picture of the risk for illness and injury for groups of workers, and make active use of new knowledge in a risk-based approach

• Follow up that the companies/operators develop framework conditions,

through for instance contracts, that enables contractors and subcontractors to reduce risk for their groups

• Systematize and distribute knowledge from regulatory activities
• Enhance the responsibility of employer- and employee organizations

and the companies, and ensure that they implement risk-reducing measures aimed at particularly vulnerable groups

• help to strengthen the relationship between preventive work for groups

exposed to risk and the following up of individuals with work related illnesses

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• The traditional approach: manage risk factors, such as

noise, chemicals or ergonomic strain separately or in relation to specific areas such as drilling area

• A groups based approach: assess the total exposure for

employee groups involved in different work tasks at different work sites

• Personal injuries?
• Noise?
• Ergonomic strain?
• Chemicals?
• Work pressure?

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• The working environment in the undertaking shall

be fully satisfactory when the factors in the working environment that may influence the employees’ physical and mental health and welfare are judged separately and collectively.

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Framew amewor

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k conditions conditions

• Increase awareness in the industry of how framework

conditions, e.g. work organisation and subcontracting, influence risk and risk management processes for different groups

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Methodological a Methodological appr pproac

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• System audits based on self evaluations and meetings
• System audits involving observations, verifications and interviews
• Mapping and risk evaluation – a group based perspective
• Competence involved in risk management
• Training in health and working environment risk
• Evaluation of potentially negative consequences of framework conditions –

implementation of measures to reduce risk

• Risk profiles developed for groups exposed to risk regarding
• ccupational illness and personal injuries
• Literature reviews of environmental framework conditions and their

relation to HSE-risk (Rosness et al 2009)

• Qualitative study of which implications environmental conditions

(such as the financial crisis and the integration of Statoil and Hydro) have for HSE work in the contractor segment (RNNP)

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Identified g Identified groups

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• Examples of groups identified by the companies or by the

PSA during the period 2007 – 2014::

• Groups employed by the operator: Mechanical

workers, technicians, managers and industrial cleaners

• Groups employed by contractors: Well intervention

workers, surface treatment workers, drill floor crew, plumbers, scaffolders, welders, cementers, divers, catering workers, rope access technicians and insulators

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activity (RNNP). (RNNP).

• Important source of data for identifying groups exposed

to risk

• Results are presented in annual reports published by the

PSA since 2000

• The mapping of the risk level in Norwegian petroleum

activities comprises major accidents, work accidents and certain working environment factors

• A large questionnaire survey every other year including

questions concerning experience of work related illness and organizational climate

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• RNNP data showed differences between groups as

regards their experience of occupational illnesses, completely or partly caused by work activities.

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Experience of health injuries "Quite and very troubled" 2013

Scaffolders Surface treatment workers Insulators Total

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population Hearing loss 7,3 % 4,1 % 5,2%* 7,0 % Ringing in the ears, tinnitus 13,0 % 6,8 % 9,0 % 8,9 % Headache 6,9 % 5,4%* 5,2%* 6,0 % Neck and shoulder pain 24,9 % 17,7 % 23,4 % 18,0 % Back pain 18,9 % 10,3 % 16,9 % 12,7 % Knee and hip pain 22,2 % 15,2 % 19,2 % 11,4 %

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are e mor more e e expos xposed to ed to risk risk than other than others

• Well intervention employees had the most negative score
• n several HSE factors in RNNP such as:
• Experience with HSE management
• Experience of HSE prioritising
• Recreation
• Social support
• Employee groups differ as regards serious personal

injuries reported to the PSA

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PSA’s observations

• The industry had, prior to the audits, to a limited degree assessed

the total exposure for their employee groups

• There are more risk factors related to some groups’ work operations
• Contractor groups had more risk factors present in their work

environment and the exposure is higher than for operator groups

• Contractors’ HSE management systems had weaknesses related to:
• Identification and assessment of risk exposure to working environment

factors

• Training of and information to employee groups concerning relevant risk

factors

• Implementation of improvement measures

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audits audits

HSE management Operators Contractors

Mapping of exposure and risk evaluation

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Knowledge of risk

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Access to and use of work environment competence

XXX X

Medical /health surveillance

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Measures

XX X Actual exposure X XXX

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Framw amwor

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• Framework conditions may have negative effects
• n the contractors’ HSE work
• Definition of framework conditions for HSE work:
• conditions that influence the opportunities an organization,
• rganizational unit, group or individual has to control the risk
• f major accidents and working environment risk (Rosness et

al., 2009)

• Contracts, economic conditions and access to

competence are important environmental conditions for contractors’ HSE work

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Framew amewor

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k conditions

• There is a low awareness about the implications
• f environmental conditions for the risk managing

for contractor groups

• Few had considered measures to change

environmental conditions

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Conseq Consequenc uences es for r

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• Findings indicate that the groups most exposed to risk

receive the poorest risk managing effort from the employer

• Groups exposed to risk are not necessarily identified

through traditional HSE management

• PSA will continue to ;
• advocate a groups based approach in risk

management

• focus on framework conditions for HSE work

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Thank you for your attention!