Working Together for Safety

STARTING POINT

• Anxiety in the public domain

• Level of safety questioned
• Different opinions on the situation
• Low level of confidence between
parties
• Industry`s reputation at stake

Co-operation was necessary but not obvious

 Working
Together
for Safety
 Background

• SfS is founded on a mandate given by its

member organisations

• SfS is based on two parliament White Papers

• SfS issues recommendations on Best Practise

• Some of the Recommendations become

OLF / NR / NI Guidelines
 Mandate Ma
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• Improve safety offshore id
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• Improve confidence to re
qu
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the industry and its cy
employees
• Strengthen the
confidence and Pe
cooperation between rs
on
al
parties in
ju
ry
• Improve industry fre
qu
reputation en
cy
 Principles for our work

• Three partite
• Experts working together with operators
• Participation of the operators is fundamental
to gain ownership of product
• The proposed product is reviewed by
participating organisations before approval in
SfS
• Guidelines are approved and issued by
OLF/NR/NI
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Status December 2008

• 10 seminars / conferences

• 36 Workgroups established

• 23 Recommendations issued (14 Guidelines)

• QA of safety related courses established with common

competence register (PSK)

• 19 safety films issued on the web

 Recommendations / Guidelines
Typical examples:

• HSE in Contracts
• Dropped objects (3 recommendations)
• Common PtW and SJA systems on the NCS
• Checking in on helicopters
• Safe operation of service vessels
• ONE emergency number and common alarm
signals on the NCS
• Harmonised safety statistics on the NCS
Where to find this information ?

www.samarbeidforsikkerhet.no