Responsibilities
Oil and gas companies should designate a competent and qualified safety representative to coordinate, implement, and administer the Safety Management System (SMS).
Wellsite Safety Officers have many important responsibilities.
The safety representative should be thought of as an internal safety consultant and should not be responsible for enforcing safety rules. Enforcement of safety rules is the job of line managers, not safety representatives.
Safety representative responsibilities include:
- Understand potential job hazards and how to eliminate them.
- Conduct or assist with Job Hazard Analysis.
- Assure compliance with OSHA oil and gas safety and health standard requirements.
- Conduct regular job site safety and health inspections.
- Establish safety and health procedures.
- Coordinate regular safety and health training.
- Conduct or assist with Tailgate or Tool Box Talks.
- Maintain documentation of training, inspections, injuries and illnesses, and other safety records.
- Participate in accident investigations and implementation of corrective actions.
- Involve employees in the implementation of the SMS.
- Create statistical reports that compare severity and frequency rates against prior records.
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1-8. Enforcement of safety rules is the job of _____.
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