Learning from Challenges: Enhancing Safety Culture in Drilling Projects

Despite having ground disturbance practices that meet or exceed standard industry practices, our contractors experienced three buried utility line strikes during drilling projects in a 10 month period.    During this event, you will hear about our response to this series of incidents, including what we learned from the incident investigations, how we brought our contractors together to raise awareness of system weaknesses, and how we drew on the expertise of our contractors to develop a tool to immediately reduce the likelihood of additional utility line strikes.

Objectives:

• Raise awareness around common contributing factors to buried utility line strikes.
• Share an approach to responding to incidents in a way that improves safety culture.
• Provide attendees an understanding of IOGP (International Association of Oil & Gas Producers) Start Work Checks and the Drilling Start Work Check we developed.
• Reduce the likelihood of buried utility line strikes in the ASSP Three Rivers Chapter community.

Presenter:

Garrick Milkeris, CSP, CIH is a Health, Safety, Environment & Carbon Advisor for bp’s Remediation Management business.  He has worked for bp for just over 11 years, and previously held a variety of HSSE consulting positions for 20+ years.  Mr. Milkeris also holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Health & Safety from Illinois State University.

Agenda:

11:30 am                               Lunch & Networking

11:55 am                               Chapter Announcements & Introductions

~Noon to ~1:00 pm           Presentation

Meeting Sponsor:

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Register to Attend:

*** $40.00 Charge for Walk-Ins