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4 The Roles of Different Stakeholders
Pages 31-36

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... (Fry) • Collaborating across companies, including service companies, and applying lessons from other industries could help change the safety culture of the offshore oil industry.
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... EMPOWERMENT THROUGHOUT THE INDUSTRY Michael Fry, president and chief executive officer of Deepwater Subsea LLC, who worked on nuclear submarines for a decade before joining the oil industry, began by observing that with submarines, "you've already sunk the ship." If there is a flood, a fire, or some other kind of emergency, he added, people have to make split-second decisions. "So the first stakeholder is yourself," he said.
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... "Human factors that get deemed ‘soft skills' by some organizations, the Marine Corps refers to as critical combat skills," he said. "That's a cultural change driven by organizational leadership." WORKING ACROSS LEVELS Kevin Lacy, chief executive officer of Proactive RT Solutions LLC and president of Drilling Principles LLC, has worked to implement safety processes in offshore basins around the world.
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... " THE ROLE OF MIDDLE MANAGEMENT In the process of building the first seventh-generation drill ship, David Walker, global quality, health, safety, and environment manager, consulting and project management, for Halliburton, was part of a team that built a new drill crew as well as a new ship. In the process, he said, the team tried to do "something different, break the rules, do the right thing." Workers want to protect themselves and their shipmates, he observed, but there is a disconnect between safety and empowerment.
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... He added that this perspective is not yet widespread in the United States, that companies and workers feel that if they follow a checklist, they will be okay. Yet, he said, when operational leaders take responsibility for safety, "you see a huge change in behavior." Walker agreed with Lacy that past accidents have not yet led to sufficient change.
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... , noted that BSEE's role as a regulator is to set expectations and requirements for operating oil and gas facilities safely and to apply those expectations and enforce those requirements consistently across the entire industry. He explained that most BSEE regulations set requirements for the existence and safe design and operability of specific types of equipment, but the SEMS regulations are different in many ways: they require operators to ensure that employees are involved in safety management (e.g., that they understand and sign job safety analyses)
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