Manager's Work Standard – Four Practices, One HSE Document

From Technical Modernization to Culture Management

Over the past decades, the industry has come a long way in reducing injuries through the implementation of modern technical equipment, gas protection systems, interlocks, and high-quality PPE. However, today this trend is plateauing. Further reduction in the number of incidents requires systematic work with people's mindset and behavior. In his presentation, Yuri Shtelma, Head of the HSE Department at SUEK-Krasnoyarsk, explains how to combine disparate safety tools into a single Manager's Work Standard (MWS).

Four Key Practices of the Standard

Using the example of large open-pit coal mines, the speaker shows how four familiar areas are transformed into a manageable system when clear metrics and algorithms are set for them.

Formalization of the Work Assignment System

Even with well-developed risk maps, the process of issuing a work assignment often relies solely on the personal experience of the mining foreman. Developing a brief formalized algorithm allows young specialists to check against a standard, ensuring that all critical safety issues (the condition of the face after the previous shift, weather conditions, the presence of hazardous zones) are necessarily voiced. To control the quality of this communication, it is planned to use data from video cameras installed in the assignment rooms.

Rebooting Production Control and Checklists

Mixing safety and maintenance issues in one long checklist inevitably leads to a loss of the worker's focus. The speaker examines in detail the approach to creating targeted checklists based on the assessment of priority risks using the Bowtie method. This allows checking specific safety barriers rather than just formally filling out documents.

Assessing the Quality of Behavioral Safety Audits (BSA)

When the BSA system is implemented everywhere and digitized, the focus shifts from the quantity of audits conducted to their quality. Introducing new metrics, such as the ratio of identified unsafe acts and conditions to the total number of conversations held, helps assess the real engagement of line managers and the effectiveness of their communication with workers.

What you will learn from this webinar:

• How to create a work assignment algorithm that will actually help young foremen in production?
• Why safety checklists must be separated from technical equipment control?
• How to assess the quality of conducted behavioral audits based on objective system data?
• How to build monthly work with risk maps at the level of site managers to track the real dynamics of improvements?