Abstract
Oil and Gas Industry (OGI) faces a number of evolving and various types of risks and hazards that give rise to serious incidents. To conduct this study 801 incidents reports have been numerically analyzed, evaluated and interpreted. These incidents reports covered various severity levels, which have been occurred in 6 regions across the world, from 2014 to 2016. The analysis focused on global oil and gas industry. The study has shown that Occupational Work-related Incidents (OWRIs) occur mostly in October and especially in spring time. In addition, it has pointed out that the region of North America is the most affected area; almost one-third of OWRIs occurs in turbine hall area. Surprisingly, the study also revealed that three-quarters of the OWRIs did not occur in High-Risk Activity (HRA) and half of the incidents took place with no tooling involved. Noticeably, the main recurrent and frequent event was struck against or by (SAoB) that resulted dominantly in slight injuries that required only first aid care, and the most affected body part is the finger by “Cut (Laceration)/ Pinch”. The study has confirmed that the hazardous working environment in OGI was the direct cause for half of the OWRIs. However, based on the revealed results, it will be the assumptions that human factors have a crucial impact on the workplace safety and a contributing factor in the incidents. Some control measures were suggested accordingly.
Highlights
Work-related incidents constitute a social phenomenon and one of the major problems all over the world, despite all the implemented safety control measures in any organization and the improvements in work-related safety which have been known in the last decades, things can still go wrong, and accidents and incidents still do happen
It has been deduced that October and April are the periods when most Occupational Work-related Incidents (OWRIs) took place; these incidents might be attributed to some special High-Risk Activity (HRA) that took place during this period especially for some O&G plants that shut down to conduct major maintenance of big machines such as gas and steam turbines
The statistics revealed that 34% of OWRIs happened in Springtime, this high incidents rate might be attributed to the weather factor even if it is not similar in all regions surveyed; during this season the workplace hazards increased in some regions such as wet floors, slippery spot due to heavy precipitation
Summary
Work-related incidents constitute a social phenomenon and one of the major problems all over the world, despite all the implemented safety control measures in any organization and the improvements in work-related safety which have been known in the last decades, things can still go wrong, and accidents and incidents still do happen. The incidents rates have increased alongside the industrial revolution and the rapid globalization of the world. All sectors suffer from all types of adverse events ranging from deadly incidents to minor injuries at the workplace in a hazardous working environment such as energy, agriculture, fishery and mining. Statistics show that in every 15 seconds one worker dies from an OWRI, and 153 workers have a work accident. 6,300 people passed away daily as a result of OWRIs or work-related ill-health. These work accidents affect negatively both the company performance and bottom-line as well as the economic growth (Hämäläinen et al, 2005)
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