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SEMS Skills & Knowledge PRESENTATION TO GULF COAST REGULATORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS GROUP JANUARY 9, 2014
Presenters 2
Robert Supple, General Manager Operator Qualification Solutions Group A leader in the evaluation process for DOT pipeline workers known as Operator Qualifications (OQ). Specializing in assisting offshore pipeline clients. Ken Wells, President Lifeline Strategies A safety and regulatory management consulting company with a special focus on SEMS. Wrote the most used SEMS training tool and works with contractors to help them meet their customer requirements.
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SEMS Skills And Knowledge 3
What We Will Talk About: 1. SEMS Requirements 2. What Industry is Doing 3. OQ Model 4. SEMSReady™ Approach 5. Group Exercise
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SEMS Skills and Knowledge 4
SEMS requires Operators to ensure Contractor personnel have: Skills
Knowledge Experience
• Many Operators require personnel evaluations • Some require annual evaluations
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SEMS Verifications 5
Operators must “Utilize personnel with expertise in identifying safety hazards, environmental impacts, optimizing operations, developing safe work practices, developing training programs and investigating incidents.” (30 CFR 250.1909 (f)) Operators must “Ensure that suitably trained and qualified personnel are employed to carry out all aspects of the SEMS program.” (30 CFR 250.1909 (i)) “document that your contracted employees are knowledgeable and experienced in the work practices necessary to perform their job in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Documentation of each contracted employee’s expertise to perform his/her job and a copy of the contractor’s safety policies and procedures must be made available to the operator and BOEMRE upon request.” (30 CFR 250.1914 (b)) “You are responsible for making certain that contractors have the skills and knowledge to perform their assigned duties and are conducting these activities in accordance with the requirements in your SEMS program.” (30 CFR 250.1914 (b) (2)) “Your SEMS program must include procedures and verification that contractor personnel understand and can perform their assigned duties for activities such as, but not limited to: (1) Installation, maintenance, or repair of equipment;(2) construction, startup, and operation of your facilities; (3) turnaround operations; (4) major renovation; or (5) specialty work.” (30 CFR 250.1914 (b)(d)) “Your (operator’s) SEMS program must establish and implement a training program so that all personnel are trained in accordance with their duties and responsibilities to work safely and are aware of potential environmental impacts. Training must address such areas as operating procedures (§ 250.1913), safe work practices (§ 250.1914), emergency response and control measures (§ 250.1918), SWA (§ 250.1930), UWA (§ 250.1931), EPP (§ 250.1932), reporting unsafe working conditions (§ 250.1933), and how to recognize and identify hazards and how to construct and implement JSAs (§ 250.1911). You must document your instructors' qualifications.” (30 CFR 250.1915) The SEMS Plan must include “Periodic training to maintain understanding of, and adherence to, the current operating procedures, using periodic drills, to verify adequate retention of the required knowledge and skills.” (30 CFR 250.1915 (b)) The SEMS Plan must include “How you will verify that the contractors are trained in the work practices necessary to perform their jobs in a safe and environmentally sound manner, including training on operating procedures (§ 250.1913), the safe work practices (§ 250.1914), or the emergency response and control measures (§ 250.1918).” (30 CFR 250.1915(d)) Mechanical Integrity procedures must address “the training of each employee involved in maintaining your equipment and systems so that your employees can implement your mechanical integrity program.” (30 CFR § 250.1916 (b))
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It is Really About Two Questions 6
1. What do workers
need to know to do job correctly? 2. How do they
prove they know those things?
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COS Guidelines 7
Center for Offshore Safety Subgroups worked through 2013 Developed guidelines for “Skills and Knowledge Management System.” Addresses
job tasks that impact safety Calls for worker assessments Gives a common baseline for determining offshore personnel ability to perform work safely.
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IADC KSAs 8
Drillers are working on
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) database Release estimated for 2014
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Operator Evaluation Requirements 9
Message from SEMS Audits = Industry has a
long way to go on SK verification. Fieldwood, BP and others require annual evaluations. 2013 message = Contractors got points for effort but need to have system in place this year.
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How Pipelines Do it: Operator Qualifications 10
Companies that operate or maintain lines on oil and gas pipelines must have a written OQ program and identify covered tasks. Workers must be: • qualified on tasks • be able to react to any abnormal operating condition.
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How Pipelines Do it: Operator Qualifications 11
OQ process concerned with three things: 1. Do evaluations accurately represent the work performed? 2. Are evaluators trained & qualified to do objective evaluations? 3. Does the process have integrity and can you audit it?
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SEMSReady™ 12
Program uses the OQ model to Develop Evaluate Manage competency programs that meet SEMS skills and knowledge requirements.
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SEMSReady™ 13
Administrator
Evaluator
Learn to: 1. Develop Skills & Knowledge Verification plan 2. Create accurate job descriptions and skillsets 3. Utilize form to create consistent evaluations 4. Oversee verification process
Learn to: 1. Utilize form to evaluate individual workers 2. Perform evaluations that are:
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Objective Consistent
Repeatable
SEMSReady™ Process 14
Classes - Identify & describe criteria - Create SK system - Perform evaluations
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Follow-up assistance Database
Options of: - Help setting up system - Review of system - Audit of evaluations
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- Manage records - Document evaluator training - Feed online systems like ISNet
Skills & Knowledge Exercise 15
Hire a boat captain
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Skills & Knowledge Exercise 16
Hire a boat captain
A charter boat captain
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Questions? 17
Robert Supple
OQSG
[email protected] 337-769-9608 Ken Wells
Lifeline Strategies
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