Safety Interventions Evaluation in an Oil and Gas Company

Abstract

In low safety performing companies, the management was perceived to be more interested in keeping their safety records than preventing accidents; employees were inadequately trained for their jobs, and were not collectively setting goals for safety. Contemporary safety and health program have over the years been based on theoretical and qualitative analysis. This has prevented industrial organizations and companies from adequately developing and implementing successful health and safety intervention programs aimed at decreasing or eliminating incidents. In an attempt to improve the working environment, several researchers have suggested the creation of a safety culture which enables management to develop hazard free workplace. In this research, a model of effective safety and health program has been developed that incorporates qualitative and quantitative techniques to relate past incident rates, safety resources allocation and intervention activities. The outcome of the research work is to predict the effectiveness of safety resources allocation in implementing safety intervention activities; this will in turn minimize the cost of incident prevention initiatives.