HSE Management Systems

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• HSE Management Systems
• (What it means to us!)

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• HSE Protection Policy Statement, says
• It is our policy that
• A systematic approach to HSE Management be
  applied,
• which shall (example bullet)
• require contractors to manage HSE in line with
• this policy
• The Purpose of this Policy is to Cultivate our
• Commitment to (example bullet)
• protect the health and safety of staff,
  contractors
• employees and other persons affected by our
• activities

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• What is the Management System?
• It describes the way the organisation is managed
  in relation to its stated HSE commitments
• Achieves implementation of HSE Policy by
  ensuring that critical activities are properly
  controlled

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Why do we routinely get a POOR rating, when
audited against our HSE-MS?

• Leadership Commitment
• Policy and Strategic Objectives
• Organisation and Responsibilities
• Manpower, Resources and Competence Assurance
• HEMP
• Planning
• Standards, Procedures and Document Control
• Implementation and Monitoring
• Audit
• Management Review

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• What is PDO doing to improve on this?
• Rationalise the HSE-MS suite of documentation
• One HSE-MS Manual
• Remove duplication and irrelevant information
• Develop a comprehensive communications package
• Targeting 3 levels in the business
• Aligned to a defined target audience

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We have questioned the effectiveness of our
HSE-MS Outcome 1. Re-write documentation and fit
it to the business 2. Communicate it to the
people who need to know
Conference Question What more can we do to make
the Management System a living process, which all
our key staff can relate to and ensure compliance
against?
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Conference Question What more can we do to make
the Management System a living process, which all
our key staff can relate to and ensure compliance
against?

• Session Process
• Table dialogue using designated facilitator
• 20 minutes available
• Objective - 1 idea / activity per table
• One person from each table to provide brief
  feedback
• Opportunity for clarification

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• 1. HSE MS - What it means to us?
• Include relevant parts of the HSE-MS
  into the individuals tasks and targets.

• Create and issue quarterly pictorial
• prompt cards to lowest level workers in
• different languages, focussing on the
• weaker areas of the HSE-MS.

Agreed Activities

• Raise leadership and commitment level
• of supervisors to avoid confusion by
• simplification of the MS.

• Create a common template of pictorial
• prompt cards (across all companies).

• Make MS user friendly highly branded

General Comments To many MSs Ownership Too
much paperwork for s/v Convince workforce that
the MS is their MS and not one imposed by
management MS embedded in different processes.
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