The offshore oil and gas industry is notoriously dangerous, where death is an ever present danger for those out in the field. However, changes and improvements in leadership training have helped to cut down on such deaths. With executives at some of these companies getting the best training possible, workplace safety is slowly becoming better and better for their employees while still maintaining great levels of production.
Health and Safety Executive show how deaths and serious injury are very low today. In this previous year in fact no deaths were reported in any offshore locations. The year before that showed the same figures. Such findings are becoming a common and positive thing. As for injuries, they are very low at the moment, the lowest they been for about twenty years. There were only thirty cases this year, which is even less than what Health and Safety discovered last year in their research.
The cause for all these excellent findings? Altering how management back onshore comprehended the safety of their offshore employees says Health and Safety Executive Ian Whewell. Because most senior level executive got promoted through positions in departments like marketing not in engineering or other fields associated with offshore practices, they did not fully understand what serious hazards were involved in the business of drilling and how important workplace safety is, especially for their company. Because management leaders have received the proper business training and injury was reduced, and as a result, so did production and morale.
Though the training was simple in nature, it made a great improvement in comprehension for those leaders with no experience outside of the cubicle environment where it is difficult to imagine the tragedies that can happen in offshore drilling. The effect of such training seminars were immediate and obviously successful, seeping down into all areas of the bsiness.