Level Increase of Process Safety Culture at the Fuel and Energy Complex Enterprises

Abstract

The priority development area, according the Russian Federation state policy framework in the field of industrial safety till 2025, is the high process safety formation, ensuring maximum employees involvement and their direct participation in safety issues, as well as the development of behavioral safety audit (BSA) skills. As a result of the studies, development of the safety culture level at the one of the gas transmission enterprises was assessed. The assessment was based on the results of two surveys. The first survey was carried out to assess the current level of safety culture before the BSA procedure implementation in the company, while the second one was conducted after the regular BSA procedure performing during two quarters of 2019. Using mathematical data processing, the statistical significance of variance in safety culture components assessments revealed was proved for professional group: production workers. At the same time, there were no changes identified for professional groups: specialists and executives. Using cluster analysis, the characteristics of the obtained culture levels were determined. The cluster analysis also revealed the increase in the number of production workers who rated the safety culture at the high level. Such results indicate the successful implementation of the BSA procedure in a company.