Author: Augustin Bejan – QHSSE Manager Co-author: Turbatu Ion – QHSSE Coordinator

IADC Critical Issues Continental Europe Conference & Exhibition 23-24 May 2012, JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania

Facilitating a Change in the Workers Safety Culture

Weatherford - history

• Founded by Jess Hall Snr, Weatherford Spring Co. began trading in 1941 as a provider of oil drilling equipment and services.

• Over the next couple of decades, when the Weatherford name moved into Europe, Hall’s company started acquiring a global reputation as a reliable supplier of casing cleaning and directional drilling control services

…and present

• Number of Countries - 100+ • Employees - 60000+ • Services Bases - 1000 • Manufacturing Facilities - 85 • R&D Centres - 13 • Training Centres - 16

Infrastructure at a Glance

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Weatherford in Romania

• ALS (Artificial Lift Systems) operations started to operate locally in 2006 with a crew of 10 people.

• Acquisitions:

- BOSS Campina – 2008

- Foserco – 2008

- Atlas - 2009

• +/- 780 personnel

• 16 Locations - 2012

- Headquarter in Ploiesti

- Offices in Bucharest

- 14 bases throughout Romania

ATLAS BOSS Campina FOSERCO

1998-2008 8 8 5

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1998-2008

Lost Time Injuries Statistics Before Acquisitions

2009 2010 2011

Preventable 9 3 3Non-Preventable 2 3 0

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3 3 2

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Vehicle Accidents Statistics Between 2009 - 2011

2009 2010 2011

Preventable vehicleincidents

9 3 3

Training Hours 2753 26967 37792Safety Meetings 42 421 669Observation/Near Miss

Cards2430 7823 11276

9 3 3

2753

26967

37792

42 421 669

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7823 11276

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Correlation Between Intervention and HSE Performance

PVIR(preventable

vehicleincident rate)

TVIR (totalvehicle

incident rate)

TRIR (totalrecordable

incident rate)

LTIR (losttime injuries

rate)

2009 1.03 1.26 0.13 02010 0.34 0.71 0 02011 0.34 0.34 0 0

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0.13 0 0.34

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1.4 Accident rates

No of SafetyMeetings

CPARssubmitted

OFI submittedPositive

OutcomeRatio

2009 42 34 1 2.642010 421 38 10 10.022011 669 30 12 16

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700HSE ACHIEVEMENTS

Headcount No.Observation/Near-

Miss Cards No.Training Hours

2009 966 2430 27532010 735 7823 269672011 706 11276 37792

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Cards No to HeadcountTraining Hours to

Headcount

2009 2.51 2.852010 10.6 36.692011 15.97 53.53

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60HSE ACHIEVEMENTS

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Recordable Incidents

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SUMMARY

We understood that a change in the workers safety culture means moving

from blaming culture to learning culture

Challenge: The legacy of a “Just Culture”

• Summary of the safety culture priorities identified:

- safety leadership

- effective communication

- passing from concealing to recognizing errors and learning from mistakes

- staff motivation and involvement

Contributory Factors to the Change

of the Safety Culture in Weatherford Romania

Weatherford Positive Culture

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5 Core Growth Culture Behaviors

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Getting Everyone Managing Safety

• Driver and Vehicle Safety

• Commitment and Intervention

• Facility Safety

• Training and Induction

• Risk Management

• Lifting Equipment and Operations

• Hazardous Substances

• Hazardous Environments

Our Gems

– Displaying and communicating safety policies

– Designing a proper safety information system

– Creation and promotion of a safety reporting system

– Employees encouraged to speak and not to hide

– Persistence

WFT Romania has developed an effective two-way communication

process by:

• Alignment of learning culture to business needs

• Learning needs identified through performance appraisals

• Learning organization status obtained by investing time and resources for learning

• Training was a key element in the business strategy of WFT Romania dedicated to continuous learning

WFT Romania – a learning organization

– e-learning plan, RADAR program, Right Start, Defensive Driving program, various specialized trainings - proved to be a strong motivating factor for our staff

– Dissemination of the lessons learnt from previous incident/accidents

– Promoting good practices – Workshop

WFT Romania – a learning organization

– Visibility of management’s commitment to safety

– Managers and Supervisors are guided by “Lead by Example” principle

– Giving safety a high status within the organization objectives

– Safety prioritized in all situations

– Open door policy for safety

Management involvement to safety was

a key factor to obtain a positive safety culture!

Rules to live by:

- I will always drive to the conditions of the road and wear my seatbelt

- I will always take a break from driving whenever I am feeling fatigued

- I will never use my mobile phone or drive distracted

Driver and Vehicle Safety

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND INTEREST!

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