The Step Change in Safety

1. The Step Change in Safety John Moran Head of ICT SCI Construction Skills H&S E Committe

2. 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 Construction Skills H&S E Committe

3. About 30 Commercial Products Construction Skills H&S E Committe

4. 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%. Construction Skills H&S E Committe

5. Offshore any better? • Lost Time Incident Frequency(includes fatalities) Construction Skills H&S E Committe

6. Who are “Step Change In Safety”? • Unique industry partnership of Operators, Contractors, Trade Associations, Unions and Regulator • Leadership Team of 30 Industry MDs/Leaders • No enforcement capability Construction Skills H&S E Committe

7. Step Change In Safety: Vision Workgroups: Asset Integrity Competence Control of Work Visible Leadership In 2010, the UK isthe safest place to work in the worldwide Oil and Gas Industry Recognise Hazard and Reduce Risk Personal Ownership for Safety Asset Integrity Identifying, Understanding and Dealing with Hazards Making safety personal by demonstrating commitment and competence throughout the organisation. Maintaining Hardware to be Safe, Reliable and Efficient Ownership and Involvement at all Levels Leadership Communication Cooperation Construction Skills H&S E Committe

8. Form manual handling to heavy lifts • Step impacts all areas of safety Construction Skills H&S E Committe

9. Internet is the medium • Step Change in Safety website Construction Skills H&S E Committe

10. 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 Construction Skills H&S E Committe

11. Organisation Construction Skills H&S E Committe

12. System Architecture-Community Server Construction Skills H&S E Committe

13. The Site • News, events, Incident Alerts, Resources, Discussions • All interlinked • All ‘Themed’ • All cross-searchable Construction Skills H&S E Committe

14. The Site Theme and profile filters can be applied Construction Skills H&S E Committe

15. The Registered User • 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 Construction Skills H&S E Committe

16. The Administrative Users • An administrative console for control of: • Users\roles • Incident Alert authors • News/Events/Resources approval • Incident Alerts approval • Moderation of discussion areas • Moderation of daily bulletins • Statistics reporting Construction Skills H&S E Committe

17. 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 Construction Skills H&S E Committe

18. Step onshore – Extending collaboration • Ownership • Step Change own offshore information • SCI own dissemination platform • ‘Construction’ would own their own information • The Offshore sector would: • Broadcast content to an equivalent Construction system • Accept, filter and re-broadcast content from an equivalent Construction system Construction Skills H&S E Committe

19. 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’ Construction Skills H&S E Committe

20. Step onshore – So no problems then? • The will to do something? • Sector fragmentation • Legal barriers • Integration with existing information flows • Financial support? Construction Skills H&S E Committe

21. User Needs Analysis • Presentation Meetings held with: • Construction Industry Council • Step Change • CONIAC • MCG – H& S Committee (under auspices of CC) • I H S - OHSIS personnel • Ten Alps – advertising sales agency • ‘One-to-ones’ • Federation of Master Builders • Grain LNG Project H&S Management • HSE • SCOSS Construction Skills H&S E Committe

22. User Needs Analysis – to do • Presentation Meetings with: • ICE H & S Panel • RIBA H & S Committee • BIA • Plenary – invitees + HSE + Minister • ‘One-to-ones’ • Parliamentary representation • House Builders’ Federation • IHS • HSE Construction Skills H&S E Committe

23. Emerging Federated Model Themed sites Construction Skills H&S E Committe

24. Emerging Federated Model – input side Federated authoring Construction Skills H&S E Committe

25. 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 Construction Skills H&S E Committe

26. John Moran j.moran@steel-sci.com Construction Skills H&S E Committe