A Day in the Life of an HSE Project Manager: Thursday

Thursday – Spend the Day Assessing Results in the Field

An unshakeable rule of our project is that Thursday is a day without meetings, spent in the workshops. This helps us stay connected with our workers and what is happening on the shop floor, while also allowing us to qualitatively assess the results of implemented initiatives.

In our Company, it is customary to start such walkthroughs with preparation! We determine the area, the workshop for the walkthrough, and the site owner (escort) in advance. The workshop is selected based solely on value. For example, if an area has a risk of fatal injury, we need to assess the effectiveness of prevention measures. Conversely, if an area reports very few risks — mostly minor "trips and slips" — isn't that a reason to evaluate the quality of reporting?

Before the walkthrough, we additionally study the following materials:

• Investigations of accidents, incidents, and A3 reports (if available for the visited business unit)
• Ongoing process safety roadmap programs and their implementation status
• Corrective actions and their implementation status from previous walkthroughs in this unit
• Priority "red risks" in operations – measures and mitigation status

We can easily obtain this data from our HSE Portal IT system.

The team uses this data to determine the route and focus of the safety walkthrough. As a rule, this significantly improves the quality of the inspection.

It is equally important not to lose information after the safety walkthrough. We struggled for a long time to integrate it into the communication cascade. We are happy to share the diagram 😊

To be continued in the next article.