Construction Skills H&S E Committe

The Step Change in Safety

John MoranHead of ICT SCI

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In this presentation..

About SCI – ICT

What is Step Change?

What does the Step Change platform do?

How?

The collaborative offer

Construction Skills User Needs Analysis

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About 30 Commercial Products

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Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

Started in 1997

Oil and Gas industry trade associations

Original Objective: To reduce the UK offshore Oil and Gas industry injury rate by 50%.

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Offshore any better?

Lost Time Incident Frequency(includes fatalities)

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Unique industry partnership of Operators, Contractors, Trade Associations, Unions and Regulator

Leadership Team of 30 Industry MDs/Leaders

No enforcement capability

Who are “Step Change In Safety”?

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Step Change In Safety: Vision

Recognise Hazard and

Reduce Risk

Personal Ownership for

Safety

Asset Integrity

Maintaining Hardware to be Safe, Reliable and

Efficient

Identifying, Understanding and

Dealing with Hazards

Making safety personal by demonstrating commitment and

competence throughout the organisation.

Ownership and Involvement at all LevelsLeadership Communication Cooperation

In 2010, the UK isthe safest place to work in the worldwide Oil and

Gas Industry

Workgroups:Asset IntegrityCompetence

Control of WorkVisible Leadership

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Form manual handling to heavy lifts

Step impacts all areas of safety

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Step Change in Safety website

Internet is the medium

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Step Change usage

42,000 different users accessed last year

¼ million page requests per month

Nearly 200 new members join each month

17,000 members have contributed to 560 themes and 2,500 posts

Safety Alerts are sent to up to 3600 subscribers every day

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Organisation

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System Architecture-Community Server

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News, events, Incident Alerts, Resources, Discussions

All interlinked

All ‘Themed’

All cross-searchable

The Site

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The Site

Theme and profile filters can be applied

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Simple registration - allowance for profiles

Registration permits authoring of Alerts, News and Events and access to Discussions

Site responds to profile

Pushed content by profile

The Registered User

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An administrative console for control of:Users\roles Incident Alert authorsNews/Events/Resources approval Incident Alerts approvalModeration of discussion areasModeration of daily bulletinsStatistics reporting

The Administrative Users

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Step onshore – Extending collaboration

The offshore sector are keen to collaborate and share:

Because most safety incidents are independent of sector

To improve information flow to their sector

To increase the experience from which information is drawn

To generate greater leverage

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Step onshore – Extending collaboration

OwnershipStep Change own offshore informationSCI own dissemination platform ‘Construction’ would own their own information

The Offshore sector would:Broadcast content to an equivalent Construction

systemAccept, filter and re-broadcast content from an

equivalent Construction system

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Step onshore – Collaboration

Collaboration is being enabled by:

Construction Skills sponsorship of a Construction focussed system

Use of the same dissemination platform

Requires a central ‘Step Change Team’

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Step onshore – So no problems then?

The will to do something?

Sector fragmentation

Legal barriers

Integration with existing information flows

Financial support?

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User Needs Analysis

Presentation Meetings held with:Construction Industry CouncilStep Change CONIACMCG – H& S Committee (under auspices of CC) I H S - OHSIS personnelTen Alps – advertising sales agency

‘One-to-ones’Federation of Master BuildersGrain LNG Project H&S ManagementHSE SCOSS

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User Needs Analysis – to do

Presentation Meetings with:ICE H & S Panel RIBA H & S CommitteeBIAPlenary – invitees + HSE + Minister

‘One-to-ones’Parliamentary representationHouse Builders’ Federation IHSHSE

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Emerging Federated Model

Themed sites

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Emerging Federated Model – input side

Federated authoring

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Step onshore – The prize

A positive influence on safety

A collaboration with LARGE ‘gravitational pull’

Engagement with important co-sponsors

Use of combined resources to develop services

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John Moranj.moran@steel-sci.com