(55az) Emerging Trends in Process Safety Management Relating to Contractor Workforce Compliance

Following a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement session conducted 2016 to 2018 for petrochemical complexes along the Gulf Coast the presentation identifies several emerging trends for Best Practices in industrial workforce compliance.

Safety Councils work for petrochemical plants and their contractors to facilitate innovative ways to reduce incident rates resulting in a 95% reduction in recordables. 2017 marked an evolution in Safety Council deliverables, slowly migrating away from site specific training to develop new workforce compliance and risk management processes. Working within the industry we developed several internationally recognized Best Practices for contractor compliance, risk management, labor cost management. ISTC collaborated with our partners bringing years of quantitative data to identify problems that are developing, have occurred in the workplace and formulating solutions, cost structures and most importantly compliance management to combat workforce issues. The presentation, best practices in contractor compliance highlights the journey from identifying the problems, and the associated issues with hiring, compliance, auditing, accident response and even Department of Homeland Security, CFATS inspections. Beyond the logistics of building solutions for a particular problem, the presentation reflects on how companies were able to share their issues among peers without violating confidentiality or company procedures to solve what was to be discovered as an industry trend. Using Six Sigma tools, the units were able to identify root problems, collaborate on a solution, model cost recovery and implement the solutions to the contractor workforce with a minimum of disruption to the business at hand.