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HSE People are working with a key clients who currently has a range of HSE Positions within the Oil and Gas Sector.
 

SENIOR HSE ADVISOR - EDINBURGH UK
This position is on a staff basis and the suitable candidate should live close to or be willing to relocate to Edinburgh. Candidates will be degree qualified with exposure to the exploration and drilling industry. Candidates with operator experience are preferred.
SALARY £60-80k

ONSHORE LEAD HSE ADVISOR - DRILLING - COPENHAGEN
This is a long term contract position for a large operator supporting the Well Construction Team and Drilling Manager. Suitable candidates will have an extensive drilling background having worked for drilling contractors previously.

OFFSHORE DRILLING HSE ADVISORS - VARIOUS
Drilling HSE Advisors required with at least 5 years experience supporting drilling operations offshore. Two positions available starting 1st Quarter next year so would suit candidates at the end of an existing contract.

To be considered for these position please send your CV directly to julia@chronosoilandgas.com including details of your availability and expected rate.

Register on www.oilandgaspeople.com to be automatically matched to suitable Oil and Gas positions.

Respected Readers,

Road traffic crashes (commonly RTA – road traffic accidents) kill nearly 1.3 million people every year and injure or disable as many as 50 million more. They are the leading cause of death among young people aged 15–29 years.

In October 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution which calls for governments to mark the third Sunday in November each year as “World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims”. The day was created as a means to give recognition to victims of road traffic crashes and the plight of their relatives who must cope with the emotional and practical consequences of these tragic events.

First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan encourages our young generation and respected parents to support safe driving behavior and through education and training before any young child get access to any type of motor like bike or car. They should also adopt correct behavior to ensure occupants (passenger, children and/or infants) safety and must have proper restraints for them too.

Road traffic crashes are among the world’s largest public health issues:

• Traffic fatalities are the leading cause of death for people ages 15-45 worldwide, resulting in 1.3 million deaths per year.

Road traffic crashes are robbing communities and developing countries of their future – the young generation:

• Globally, more than 40% of all road traffic deaths occur among the 0 to 25 age group; &
• 85% of traffic fatalities and 96% of child traffic fatalities occur in low- or middle-income countries.

Road traffic crashes place extreme financial strain on developing economies:

• For many low- and middle-income countries, the cost of road crashes represents between 1-2% of GNP (GDP);
• In some cases exceeds the total amount they receive in international development aid; &
• Many road traffic crash victims are the primary income generators for their family. The injury or death of these victims negatively impact the standard of living for their entire family.

Road traffic crashes are predictable and can be prevented

People who survive the initial crash frequently suffer brain damage that impedes their ability to continue as an income generator for their families, and in fact may require a lifetime of personal care that can drain resources from already impoverished families. Helmet use makes a difference.  Appropriate helmet use reduces the risk of fatality by an average of 42% and of severe head injury by 69%.

A recent case study of motorcycle accidents from Los Angeles and Thailand similarly found that that un-helmeted riders were two to three times as likely to be killed and three times as likely to suffer a ‘disastrous outcome’. Of survivable crashes, universal helmet use would have prevented about 80% of fatalities and brain injuries.

The goal of training programs offered by First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan is to help you gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to manage a medical emergency until more advanced help i s available.

Emergency First Aid does not require you to make complex decision or have in-depth medical knowledge. It’s easy to learn, remember, and perform.

Being volunteer is very good and our social and ethical responsibility to help victims and provide first aid (if trained to do so) but have to remain extremely careful if you are providing first aid on or near a roadway. Each year, many people are struck and killed by motor vehicles while providing assistance.

On this World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, let us mobilize all possible contributions; knowledge and experience; to improving road safety. Let us honour those who have lost their lives on the world’s roads by acting to save the lives of others.

 

To Your Health & Safety,

Faisal Javed Mir

http://firstaidtosavealife.com

As-Salam-o-Alaikum Respected Readers,

Today we will share with you why it is important to avoid direct contact with blood.

There is a potential for transmission of infection, if direct contact with blood has occurred. Although rare, injuries from an infected patient’s blood can transmit more than 20 diseases, including Hepatitis B, C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Because of this transmission risk, a great care should be taken whenever you decide to administer first aid.

The main risk is exposure to infections, especially blood-borne viruses (BBV).

Transmission of infection depends on a number of factors, including the person’s natural immune system.  We know the number of injuries each year is high, and only a small number are known to have caused infections that become serious illnesses. The blood-borne viruses of most concern are:

• Hepatitis B;
• Hepatitis C; and
• HIV.

As we don’t know at time of administering first aid at emergency scene so avoiding direct contact with blood is the most important personal safety tip. In many of the real life scenarios, you may not carry first aid kit with you but you can improvise the items available with you or get them from your surroundings to maintain your safety as well. These incidents are avoidable, and reducing them is primarily dependent on high quality education & training. And our this post will help you to learn the basics of blood-borne viruses infections.

If you suffer an injury from a sharp object or have had direct contact with blood which may be contaminated:

• Encourage the wound to gently bleed, ideally holding it under running water;
• Wash the wound using running water and plenty of soap;
• Don’t scrub the wound whilst you are washing it;
• Don’t suck the wound;
• Dry the wound and cover it with a waterproof plaster or dressing;
• Seek urgent medical advice (for example from your Occupational Health Service), as effective prophylaxis  (medicines to help fight infection) are available; &
• Report the injury to your employer.

A significant proportion of blood-borne viruses infections occur when first aid providers fail to follow the standard personal protective procedures and dos and don’t told to them during their training sessions. These incidents are avoidable, and the above brief information can help you to take care of yourself from such worries.

Bloodborne Pathogens is an accredited training program which help students in managing disease exposure from materials that contain blood or other infectious body fluids. This course provides essential knowledge necessary to help reduce or eliminate the risk of bloodborne pathogens. This course is based on the latest guidelines released in October 2010.

To Your Safety & Success,

Faisal Javed Mir

http://firstaidtosavealife.com

As-Salam-o-Alaikum Respected Readers,

Today we would like to throw light on corporate responsibility and social sustainability system. Many organizations act responsibly towards the people, their employees, and communities to contribute to social development in the areas where they live and work. They think that it is the essence of their commitment to their corporate social responsibility and they are very right but there are some organizations those doesn’t live up to the expectations even more fulfill their regulatory requirements. 

Basic life saving first aid skills is one of the subject one should consider is their responsibility to provide life saving skills to their employees and to contribute to communities where they live and work. In order to respond immediately and effectively to emergencies/disasters, which may occur during work timing or commuting to/from home to office and vice versa.

As most of the organizations collectively embrace the need to improve their impact on the society but the concept of sustainability is no longer just an investment in some of the occasional events, while I applaud increased efforts by number of organizations toward sustainable design and worker safety. There are some organizations those take responsibility of their services and products as well as invest in development of personal safety skills of their employees.

First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan’s community training programs are also one of the service where we share basic life saving first aid skills at large-scale and not for profit. At large-scale and especially at corporate sector, we should consider this and contribute/volunteer towards our community and society such program those can make difference in the lives of the families of our employees, communities and our fellow citizens.

First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan also share the same sense of responsibility and have developed community training programs and currently working on many more programs and school safety program and AED implementation program are part of those efforts. Despite the fact that many organizations neglect this aspect in their corporate social responsibility we will remain active in incorporating personal safety awareness and life saving skills, to truly protect the future, protecting the lives of workers and serve to community and our fellow citizens.

With this First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan also wishes our fellow citizens, a very happy Independence Day. Long Live Pakistan.

To Your Prosperity,
Faisal Javed Mir

Robert Gordon University Thursday 1^st September 18.00

 

As a leader in engineering design and information management solutions to the Oil & Gas industry, AVEVA is keen to contribute to the debate and to fully understand the role of Information Systems within Health & Safety.

 

As such we would like to invite you to come along to our engaging event to be held at Aberdeen Business School on the evening of Thursday, 1^st September 18:00 for 18.30 start.   The purpose of this event is to showcase the findings of an independent study carried out by researchers at Robert Gordon University, in order to provide the industry as a whole with  a better understanding of the role information management plays in managing health and safety in the Oil & Gas Industry. The research also explores how organisations achieve improvements in health and safety performance based on factors that range from culture to technology.

 

Hosted by Jeremy Cresswell, editor of the Press and Journal’s ENERGY supplement and honorary Professor at RGU’s Business School, the evening will commence with a presentation of the report’s findings by Professor Rita Marcella, Dean of Aberdeen Business School. This will be followed by a panel discussion of the topics raised and we are delighted to announce the panel members comprise

-          Malcolm Webb, Chief Executive of Oil & Gas UK

-          Brian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer for KCA DEUTAG Drilling Ltd

-          John Pearson, Managing Director Europe and West Africa for AMEC Natural Resources

-          Robin Davies, Vice President Integration & Business Improvement for Subsea 7

 

Refreshments on arrival and a post event buffet will be provided.  There will be ample parking at the university and no parking restrictions are in place. 

 

We would be delighted to welcome you along to join the debate. To ensure we have enough space available I would be very grateful if you could inform us of your intention to attend by contacting Matt Wren, Marketing Coordinator for AVEVA’s UK operations; matt.wren@aveva.com +44 1246 572916.

 

See the event online at www.aveva.com/rgu

 

 

As-Salam-o-Alaikum and very warm welcome to All,

In our today’s post we will share with you what is most important and generally speaking first thing to be looked after before we do any help.

Your (responders) personal safety is the most important step in first aid scenarios. We have to remember that emergency scenes can be dangerous or there may be associated hazards. We may or may not be in position to highlight all the existing hazards where this incident occurred but we have to be careful to ourselves.

Put your future in good hands – your own.

We should make sure that emergency scene is safe for ourselves and there are no visible hazards present or developing situations exists, those may harm us. Once you are sure your personal safety is intact, you can anticipate rescuing the victim.

Don’t feel shame because this is not ethically wrong. You have every right but first to secure yourself, and then help with a cause to save victims’ life. If the scene is not safe, you should think about yourself. If you failed to think about your safety at first and jumped into the situation, then rescuers may have to recover two victims from scene instead of one.

All organizations like American Heart Association (AHA), European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK), British Heart Foundation (BHF), Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC), American Red Cross (ARC), Red Cross and others emphasizes the needs of personal safety in their published guidelines.

There we also have some supporting stories from all around the world to avoid secondary accidents. One of the American Road Traffic Safety organizations states that 32% of road accidents (in America) are listed in the category where injured were rescuers those rushed to save lives of others but put themselves in dangers. Here we cannot put our head in the sand and have to educate ourselves and made our students more and more conscious during training sessions about the priorities; rescuers safety is first priority.

Let me share one example with you where one road side accident (secondary accident) occurred, when an ambulance hit one pedestrian in LACHI; a small town; nearby Kohat city. An incident occurred at remote site area where qualified doctor was deployed, who decided to evacuate the patient to CMH Kohat. On their way to hospital they ambulance hit a pedestrian, an old man, and now the doctor gave him first aid to take him in the same ambulance to CMH Kohat. Just imagine what could have gone wrong which caused driver to adopt unsafe behavior and he hit a pedestrian. In this case, they lost time, they were in anxiety and wasted time on road side with bystanders (who could not understand the whole situation and involved in firefighting with the driver and doctor and started inquiries about the victim in ambulance), how could they have managed the 2^nd patient in the ambulance (as generally in Pakistan ambulances can transport only one patient at one time), more stress after the secondary road side accident, medical expenses of second victim, communication expenses, local authorities inquiries, company wide road accident investigation and associated costs. You might recall the hidden cost of accidents iceberg to the above mentioned accident as well.

Generally in industry we only consider some of the cases very dangerous, for example; explosives environment, radioactive materials, toxic gases and other hazmats, and only have SOP in place to see if it is safe to enter the scene to rescue instead to have generalize approach.

“Accidents don’t have holidays”.

We should also have broader approach to cover all the misunderstandings those can harm you, if you missed your chance at first hand. And now when we have make sure the scene safety, we have to make sure we also have barriers against infectious body fluids and blood.

In the end, I just want to finish it that always use your common sense and never approach a scene that is not safe.

 

 

Thanks & Best Regards,

Faisal Javed Mir

Most of us learn safety from home. As our parents, friends and relatives direct us “this not be done, this should be done”. They only dictate but the thing is the one should understand the reasons and make understand the other. This is the area one which we should give stress to make a healthy community. We should be a role model for the followers. We should be able to explain and convince the other, why? And why not?. There will be many questions on the mind. For example, we say to our children don’t play with electricity. Child says “my father told me not to play with electricity”, so I am not playing.  This should not be the case. Father have the responsibility to make understand the child what happens if electrocuted, what are the safety systems are inbuilt, what social and environmental impact, how to save electricity and convince the child. So child never forgets these things and it act as a basic lifeline in the future.

What happens here, the busy father leave behind this responsibility because he has to fulfill a lot of other responsibilities and he is not able to find time to spare with children and family.  We should share our concern with the children also to the maximum possible extend. We should be able to convert our experiences into small stories and ask our children to evaluate it. Let them learn from it. There by we can keep on developing our children and a new generation. We should provide learn and develop environments instead of spoon feeding the data. Let us try to develop skills, observe safety attitude in our young generation which can act as a backbone for many achievements. A safety cautious personality can make win & win situation.

With the focus on Health & Safety (and in particular Working at Height) forever creeping up the average truck operator's risk assessment agenda `Biglorryblog` has been impressed by recent efforts being taken to stop a driver become a 'free fall guy'---especially off the back of a rigid. Having successfully developed its removable, easy-to-erect from ground-level tensioned post and wire system for Ainscough Crane Hire's STGO trailers, Tinsely Special Products has been indundated with calls from operators of smaller vehicles wanting a similar system. And this is what they've come up with. You can read all about it in the next 'Safety First' feature by yours truly in a forthcoming edition of Commercial Motor. In addition to being easy-to-assemble you can leave an opening for a forklift on either side of the load platform whilst still keeping the wires tensioned around the rest of the body.  It can be fitted to big rigids too and regular 2.5m wide trailers.
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 apply to everyone working at height where there is a risk of a fall liable to cause personal injury. The regulations place duties on “employers, the self-employed, and any person who controls the work of others (e.g. facilities managers or building owners who may contract others to work at height) to the extent they control the work”. Poor control may result in action from the HSE or local authorities. Fines of up to £20,000 can be imposed for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, with unlimited fines and possibly imprisonment if cases are heard in higher courts. Directors and managers can also face prosecution as individuals if their acts or omissions led to the offence. HSE and local authority inspectors will look closely at all work activities that cause most harm – so acting to control such risks will help you avoid falling foul of the law. The HSE also says: “Revocation of your operator’s licence is also a possibility when health and safety offences come to the attention of the Traffic Commissioner.”
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I have been designing systems to manage incident information for 10 years now (you may have noticed those ads for CoreHSE.com - yeah, that's me!), and if there is one lesson I have learned, it is this: make sure you know what you know. Often times, when we are dealing with the very real and raw emotions of an accident our perceptions about what really happened becomes somewhat clouded. We are focused on getting the best possible treatment for our friend and co-worker, securing the area, making sure no one else gets hurt, and all the other immediate response activities that come as second nature to most of us.

However, if we are ever going to truly prevent this from happening again we need to do a proper and thorough investigation. And for most of us, this comes as second-nature as well. But, let me pull the camera back a bit, and let’s look at the landscape from a little further out. What if we want to optimize our analysis of critical incident management? What if we want to know the most dangerous machine in our building? What if a product engineer asks us, “What is the history of injuries for this part we manufacture?” What if we want to know the 5-year trend of upper extremity burns across our 20 oil platforms?

 

There is only one way to really know what you know and that is through codes. You should code as much as you can to enhance your incident management. There are many things we could code about an incident – injury type, body part, body location, lost time, medical treatment, machine, location, and on and on. However I suggest there is one code more important than all of those other items. This code will determine whether you “count” this incident. This code will set a precedent for long-term trend analysis. This code was the basis for our HS&E Management system we started 10 years ago. That code is : Most Serious Result.

The problem we were trying to solve was being able to compare the injury rates from  plant in Kentucky, USA to the rates from a plant in Plymouth, England. With such vastly different governments mandating completely different standards for injury reporting, it was not possible to harmonize the two systems based on government requirements. And that’s just those two countries. What about France, Germany, the Czech Republic, India, and the rest of our operations all over the world? How were we supposed to get everyone reporting similar critical incidents in a similar (or to be more precise – exact) manner? 

What we developed was a coding system for result that would be applied across all of our operations regardless of jurisdiction or government. It would be *our* reporting standard. This standard became the corner-stone for our corporate Incident Management system. No longer were we forced to parse the local laws of Wuhu, China to decide if an injury was reportable to the Chinese government and therefore should be counted.  

In the next article I will show you the codes we came up with and some of the challenges we had implementing this coding system.

It is common knowledge that more accidents occur during the holiday season than any other time of the year. The best way to prevent an injury is to learn what the most common reasons are that bring a person into the ER.

Car Accidents

Car accidents this time of year are extremely dangerous due to weather conditions and a higher-percentage of intoxicated drivers on the road than usual. Avoid driving in hazardous weather conditions when possible and winterize your vehicle before traveling. Above all else, never drink and drive.

 

Holiday Decorating

When it comes to holiday decorating a variety of accidents can happen. Over 5,000 each year involve falling off of a ladder hanging Christmas lights and decorations. The month of December is responsible for 25 percent of all home decorating fires. Fires caused by Christmas trees and decorative lights claim an average of 500 homes annually. 

 

Winter Sports

Many people do not realize how dangerous winter sports can be and end up with extreme consequences. Skiing and snowboarding accidents cause hundreds of physical injuries, as well as frostbite, hypothermia and severe sun burns. 35,000 sledding injuries occur each year. In 2004, 11,000 children sought medical attention from ice skating injuries.

 

Kitchen Fires

Fire departments across the country plead with the public to be careful in the kitchen during the holidays to avoid kitchen fires. Three out of ten home fires began in the kitchen. To reduce the risk of a kitchen fire, do not leave cooking food unattended and keeping flammable materials away from heat sources.

 

Cuts

From cooking to wrapping presents, if it’s sharp it can cut the skin. Hundreds of people cut themselves every year working hard to create the perfect holiday mood. Be careful with sharp objects and keep out of the reach of children. Make sure that first aid kits are available when needed.

 

Poisonous Christmas Plants

The many holiday plants are poisonous and can cause severe reactions if ingested. Keeping poinsettias, mistletoe, holly, Jerusalem cherry and amaryllis out of the reach of small children and pets is the best way to ensure that there will be no need to call poison control.

 

Electrical Shock

Electrical decoration mishaps bring an average of 5,000 people to the emergency room each year. Only use extension cords that are in good condition (not frayed) and never run them underneath any kind of fabric, including rugs. Be careful to overload electrical sockets and unplug devices when they are no longer in use.

 

Shoveling Snow and Snow Blowers

Removing snow and ice from walkways and driveways provides protection from potential lawsuits, but each year 100,000 injuries are result of this chore. When shoveling snow, lift with knees bent and a straight back to prevent back injury. Permission from a physician is necessary for those with heart conditions and should stop immediately if chest pains occur. When using a snow blower, the fourth leading cause of finger amputation, always wear protective eyewear and keep hands away from the auger. Make sure that all safety devices are in working condition and read safety instructions before operating.

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