Work Area

The Work area ensures that companies have structures in place to effectively perform work in a safe and efficient manner.

Key elements in this area are establishing documented safe work practices or methods for high-risk work activities, identifying roles with responsibility for specific assignments and approval of work or deviations associated with the safe work practices, and establishing requirements for contractors & customers to undertake work and assess capabilities as part of selection process.

Under OSA Participant Action 2: Implement a Life Saving Actions Program, Participants will implement a Life Saving Actions program within their organization that educates and emphasizes the most critical safety hazards found at their worksites that have caused worker loss of life within the industry and key actions that workers can take to protect themselves and their colleagues from these hazards.

OSA Participant Action 6: Improve Effectiveness in Preventing and Mitigating High Consequence Well Control Incidents asks a Participant to create a well control barrier philosophy appropriate within their organization to ensure operations integrity during the life cycle of the well.

Purpose

The purpose is to ensure that structures are in place to effectively perform work in a safe and efficient manner.  

The key elements of a successful Work are:

  • Methods, procedures, and safe work practices
  • Defined roles and responsibilities
  • Contractor and customer management 

 

Methods, Procedures and Safe Work Practices

  • Establish documented safe work practices or methods for high-risk work activities 
  • Implement a work authorization process to mitigate risk associated with high-risk work activities
  • Communicate to all workers in an operation the applicable safe work practices and their associated responsibilities
 

 

Defined Roles & Responsibilities

  • Identify roles with responsibility for specific assignments and approval of work or deviations associated with the safe work practices
  • Prior to authorization, a qualified person or group should evaluate the existing and/or predictable hazards involved in the work
  • Document the scope, hazards, and controls associated with the authorized work and communicate to those involved in the task
  

 

Contractor & Customer Management

  • Establish requirements for contractors & customers to undertake work and assess capabilities as part of selection process
  • Include impacted contractors in communications regarding expectations, work scope and identification of risks
  • Monitor worksites and work performed by contractors & customers via regular assessments and verifications and provide coaching for improvement where needed.  
  

 

The OSA provides resources to support companies as they work to improve their safety performance.

Work Resources