Development of risk-oriented control to health and safety system management

Abstract

In this article Rosneft Oil Company approaches to problems of industrial safety improvement are presented with application of risk management means. In Company since 2018 the project of health, safety and environmental (HSE) protection risks management has been executed. A common property of all modern production activities management systems of large companies is the element dedicated to risk management. HSE risk management process objective in Company is implementation and maintenance in terms of all the revealed hazards of proper and sufficient management mea-sures, which correspond to the level of assessed risk, but also provided with necessary resources, distinguished on priority basis, and approved in Company on the corresponding management level. Basic selected process means are single risk matrix and risk analysis method “Bow tie diagram”. The implemented approaches to Company HSE risk management are innovative and advantageous due to their proactivity and structuredness. The condition and security of successful introduction of the process is engagement of Company employees at all levels. The experience of process introduction has demonstrated the efficiency of applied “Bow tie diagram” method, which apart from provision of the basic objectives achievement, presented oppor-tunities of advanced key performance indicators formation, corresponding to self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology criteria, based on assess-ment of preventive and responsive safety barriers. Moreover the process introduction experience presented the opportunity of improvement of incident investigation procedures and implementation of HSE risk-oriented control.