Keeping the tiger in the cage - Intelligent process safety in the North Sea (Lizzie Paton Technical Safety Engineer TAQA, UK)
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Lizzie Paton discusses process safety at TAQA, a UK-based energy company. She outlines TAQA's major accident hazards and its efforts to shape a strong process safety culture through training, educating workers on hazards, and ensuring safety systems are properly understood and effective. Paton stresses the importance of transparent data, testing systems, and challenging assumptions to maintain process safety.
Keeping the tiger in the cage - Intelligent process safety in the North Sea (Lizzie Paton Technical Safety Engineer TAQA, UK)
- 1. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Lizzie Paton, Technical Safety Engineer, TAQAin the UK Keeping the tiger in the cage Intelligent Process Safety in the North Sea
- 2. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com 1 TAQA(pronounced ta-kah)~AbuDhabi NationalEnergyCompany, basedintheUK since2006. Currentlyemploys2,500 people acrossaportfolioofownedassets.
- 3. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Our challenges 2 Weve always done it this way. Ive been doing this for 20 years and havent been hurt! It doesnt apply to me. Everywhere you look something needs fixing.
- 4. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Our licence to operate UK regulation and legislation Rigorous Safety Cases for every asset Identification of safety critical elements Management systems operating to ALARP Duty of care to workforce 3
- 5. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com TAQAs major accident hazards 4
- 6. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com 5 Shaping our safety culture
- 7. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com 6
- 8. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Understanding our limitations 7 o Alpha state reduced awareness of dangers around us when in skilled mode o Conscious overload our minds can only remember 7 (+/-2) bits of information o Internal optimism believing the myth that bad things only happen to other people o Environmental hypnosis susceptibility to dangers in familiar environments
- 9. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Looking out for each other training because we dont have eyes in the back of our heads 8
- 10. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com After one year
- 11. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Ask, ask and ask again 1. Do we understand what can go wrong? 2. Do we know what our systems are to prevent this happening? 3. Are we getting the right information to assure ourselves these systems are working effectively? 10
- 12. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Do we understand what can go wrong? 11
- 13. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Do we understand what can go wrong? 12
- 14. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Our challenge to leaders 13 Testing the effectiveness of our systems
- 15. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Getting the basics right 14
- 16. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Educating the workforce News reel video
- 17. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Hazard Awareness 16
- 18. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Do we know what our systems are to prevent this happening? 17
- 19. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Joining the dots and understanding our roles 18
- 20. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Culture ladder 19 atho ogica ho cares as long as we re not caught eacti e afety is im ortant we do a lot every time we have an accident a c ati e e have systems in lace to manage all ha ards roacti e e work on roblems that we still find enerati e igh e ia i ity rgs is how we do business round here ncreasing trust accountability ncreasingly informed
- 21. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Are we getting the right information to assure ourselves these systems are working effectively? 20
- 22. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com Shaping our approach 21 Prove to me that it is safe to run. Justify why it is not safe to run.
- 23. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com To conc de 22 Process safety is everyones res onsibility Reinforce and repeat messages to change behaviours Gain transparency on your data and systems Never make assumptions
- 24. Keeping the tiger in the cage - Lizzie Paton www.taqaglobal.com 23