keeping the tiger in the cage - intelligent process safety in the north sea (lizzie paton technical...

Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com

Lizzie Paton, Technical Safety Engineer, TAQA in the UK

Keeping the tiger in the cage Intelligent Process Safety in the North Sea

Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com 1

TAQA (pronounced ta-kah) ~ Abu Dhabi

National Energy Company, based in the UK

since 2006. Currently employs 2,500 people

across a portfolio of owned assets.


Our challenges

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“We’ve always

done it this way.”

“I’ve been doing

this for 20 years

and haven’t

been hurt!”

“It doesn’t

apply to me.”

“Everywhere

you look

something

needs fixing.”


Our licence to operate UK regulation and legislation

• Rigorous Safety Cases for every asset

• Identification of safety critical elements

• Management systems operating to ALARP

• Duty of care to workforce

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TAQA’s major accident hazards

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Shaping our safety culture


Understanding our limitations

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o Alpha state – reduced awareness of dangers around us when

in ‘skilled mode’

o Conscious overload – our minds can only remember 7 (+/-2)

bits of information

o Internal optimism – believing ‘the myth’ that bad things only

happen to other people

o Environmental hypnosis – susceptibility to dangers in familiar

environments


Looking out for each other training …because we don’t have eyes in the back of our heads

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After one year…

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Ask, ask and ask again…

1. Do we understand what can go wrong?

2. Do we know what our systems are to prevent this

happening?

3. Are we getting the right information to assure ourselves

these systems are working effectively?

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Do we understand what can go wrong?

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Do we understand what can go wrong?

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Our challenge to leaders

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Testing the effectiveness of our systems


Getting the basics right

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Educating the workforce

News reel video

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Hazard Awareness

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Do we know what our systems are to prevent this happening?

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Joining the dots and understanding our roles

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Culture ladder

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ho cares as long as we re not caught

eacti e

afety is im ortant we do a lot every time we have an accident

a c ati e

e have systems in lace to manage all ha ards

roacti e

e work on roblems that we still find

enerati e igh e ia i ity rgs

is how we do business round here

ncreasing trust

accountability

ncreasingly

informed


Are we getting the right information to assure ourselves these systems are working effectively?

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Shaping our approach

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“Prove to

me that it is

safe to run.”

“Justify why

it is not safe

to run.”


To conc de…

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• Process safety is everyone’s res onsibility

• Reinforce and repeat messages to change behaviours

• Gain transparency on your data and systems

• Never make assumptions

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