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It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Coleman Sterling|EWN
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Our Goals for Today
Objectives
• Brief overview of Safety Culture
• Characteristics of Organizations with
positive Safety Culture
• Benefits of positive Safety Culture
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Constants of a Successful Program
Workers AND Companies must be INTENTIONAL. They
have to want it! Value it! And MAKE it happen!
You can have a Positive Safety Culture without a Pipeline
Safety Management System, but you CAN’T have a
Pipeline Safety Management System without a Positive
Safety Culture!
ENCOURAGE employees to speak up and exercise their
“Stop Work” authority See Something, Say Something!
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Our Goals for Today
Safety Culture is the
glue that holds all the elements
of PSMS together.
Pipeline Safety Management Systems
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Safety Culture Requirements
Understanding the Glue
• Respect for Risk
• Important to Prevent, Avoid & Mitigate
• Continued Stakeholder Buy-in &
Commitment
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Management must clearly
communicate expectations,
responsibilities and accountabilities.
Walk the talk.
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Organizations must foster open
communication & promote an
environment that encourages
learning by asking why & how.
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Employees must have the
confidence that they can stop
work and identify problems for
management resolution.
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Foster systematic identification and
consideration of threats.
Proactively consider what can go
wrong?
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Encourages non-punitive reporting & assure
timely response to issues.
See Something, Say Something = Do Something
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Do not seek to place blame.
WHAT failed? Rather than WHO failed?
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Reinforce positive behaviors related
to safety.
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Positive Safety Culture Characteristics
Embrace lessons learned and
commit to continuous improvement
by applying findings toward positive
change.
It’s All About Safety CulturePipeline Safety Management Systems
Benefits of Positive Safety Culture
• Enhanced safety (pipeline and employee)
• Increased process efficiencies & reduced costs
• Increased system reliability
• Improved asset integrity
• Improved employee morale
• Enhanced public confidence
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