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Written by REM Staff
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Enform,
the safety association for Canada’s oil and gas industry, released
guidelines to help industry achieve superior site management. The
association led a cross-industry team in providing companies with
principles, practices and tools that help guide employers and
contractors to perform safely and professionally.
“Recognizing that one solution does not fit all users and situations,
the guidelines take a broad view of upstream petroleum industry site
operations and present accepted guiding principles that provide a
useful starting point for employers seeking to establish supervisor
competency or contractor management systems,” said Lloyd Harman,
Enform’s vice-president of safety services.
Current events have made it all too clear that worksite and well-site
safety must be a priority for everyone involved in the petroleum
industry. Canada’s leading oil and gas industry trade associations
support the use of the guidelines to help companies of all sizes
improve performance. “These documents provide our members, and the
industry as a whole, with a structure to move forward and better our
practices,” said Dave Pryce, vice-president of Western Canadian
operations with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
The activities, knowledge and skills that are expected to enhance a
supervisor’s performance are outlined, and it provides an outline to
help build a company-specific training matrix and tools that can be
used by any organization to augment existing programs. The guideline
identifies six key steps for the successful hiring and management of
contractor and service providers:
1. Defining the scope of work.
2. Establishing contractor expectations.
3. Conducting contractor pre-qualification and selection.
4. Choosing and developing the appropriate agreement.
5. Managing the contractor.
6. Keeping records and exercising due diligence.
A free electronic version can be downloaded online at www.enform.ca.
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