Health and Safety Management in the Petroleum - Oil and Gas - Industry

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

Part 1: Oil and Gas Safety

Ø Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Offshore Statistics:

Hydrocarbon Releases (HCRS) 5;

Fatal and Major Injuries to Offshore Workers;

Types of Accidents;

Over- 3-Day Injuries to Offshore Workers;

Dangerous Occurrences Offshore;

Incidence of Ill Health to Workers Offshore.

Ø Oil and Gas Industry Safety Regimes/ Institutions and Their Safety Regulation and Monitoring System:

American Petroleum Institute: Environmental Health & Safety;

Enform;

A Step Change in Safety;

Fire and Blast Information Group;

National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority;

OSHA Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing

Work safe BC Health & Safety Centre for Petroleum;

Health and Safety Executive (HSE);

Petroleum Industry's Annual Safety Seminar.

Ø Safety Relief Valves and Rupture Discs;

Ø Pressure Safety Valves (PSV), Operation and Testing;

Ø Gaswell blowouts;

Ø Hydrogen Sulfide;

Ø Hydrogen Sulfide Principles;

Ø Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Safety for Oil and Gas;

Ø Rig Accidents;

Ø Actinia Oil Rig Blowout;

Ø Blow-Out preventers – (BOP);

Ø New Generation of BOPs;

Ø Malfunctioning of BOPs;

Ø Dealing with Blowouts;

Ø Analysing the BP Oil Disaster.

Part 2: Prioritising Worker’s Health and Safety while in the Workplace

Ø HSE Human Factor Mixed with Ergonomics:

Facets of Ergonomics;

Ergonomics in General;

Ergonomics and the HSE;

Human Factor and Their Business Benefits;

Job Design:

Mechanistic Job Design;

Biological Job Design;

Motivational Job Design;

Perceptual Job Design.

Designing Safety Features in the into Workplace Machines;

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MDS);

Ergonomic Risk Analysis;

Ergonomic Job Analysis:

Formal Analysis Tools;

Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA);

Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA);

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Lifting Equation.

Sources of Economic Hazards.

Ø Health and Toxic Substances:

Toxic Substances;

Irritants;

Systematic Poisons;

Depressants;

Asphyxiants;

Carcinogens;

Air Contaminants;

Threshold Limit Values (TLV);

Detecting Contaminants;

Approaches in Measuring Air-Contaminant Exposures;

Environment Control and Noise;

Ventilation;

Design Principles;

Makeup Air;

Purification Devices;

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ);

Industrial Noise;

Decibels;

Noise Measurement;

Radiation.

Ø Flammable and Explosive Materials:

Flammable Liquids;

Sources of Ignition;

Standards Compliance;

Combustible Liquids;

Spray Finishing;

Dip Tanks;

Explosives;

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

Ø Personal Protection and First Aid:

Protection Need Assessment;

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training;

Hearing Protection;

Eye and Face Protection;

Respiratory Protection;

Confined Space Entry;

Head Protection;

Miscellaneous Personal Protective Equipment;

First Aid.