HSE DOCUMENTS-PRE TASK PLANNING PROCEDURE

 

HSE DOCUMENTS-PRE TASK PLANNING PROCEDURE

1.0. PURPOSE

This technical methodology documents the processes to systematically identify, evaluate, control, and communicate known and potential workplace safety and health hazards to employees before work activities begin.

2.0. SCOPE

This practice includes the following major sections:

• General Requirements
• Process Hazard Analysis
• Job Safety Analysis
• Safety Task Assignment

3.0. APPLICATION

The VARIOUS requirements of this SCOPE OF WORK practice apply as below:

• Process Hazard Analysis - design
• Job Safety Analysis - self-perform or construction management/subcontracted construction (any location) that is managed by [HSE DOCUMENTS]
• Safety Task Assignment
• Construction – individual or crew “tasks”
• Maintenance
• Moving
• Work or inspection “off-the-floor” in offices
• Visits to nonofficial/“field” and facility worksites of others (such as construction, disasters, and operating, plants)

4.0. DEFINITIONS

4.1. Control - An action or measure that attempts to prevent a recognized hazard from causing injury or damage.

4.2. Hazard - A source of energy or condition that may cause injury to personnel, or damage to equipment, property, or the environment.

4.3. Job Safety Analysis (JSA) – A system that identifies hazards associated with each step of a job and develops solutions for each hazard that will either eliminate or control the hazard.  

4.4. Risk - The combination of the probability (likelihood) of a specific unwanted event and the potential consequences if it should occur.

4.5. Risk Assessment - A detailed, systematic examination of any activity, location, or operational system to identify risks, understand the consequences, and review controls.

4.6. Risk Management - Management activities that enable risks to be identified, understood, and minimized to a reasonably achievable, tolerable risk.

4.7. Safety Task Assignment (STA) – The process of identifying and communicating to each employee the steps, hazards, and risks associated with a task, and the safe work practices that are to be applied to complete the task safely.

5.0. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The projects will adopt a “whole life” approach to pre-task planning for HSE from commencement of the project to commissioning and handover to the owner. The project will use a series of hazard studies to identify, analyze, and manage areas of risk or hazard. In addition, other specific risk assessments and reviews may be used to analyze specific areas of risk or hazard.

The following subsections provide a systematic approach to any pre-task planning process.

5.1. Hazard Identification

5.1.1. Workplace hazards can be identified in a number of ways. 

5.1.2. Inspections provide a system of recognizing hazardous conditions so that those conditions can be corrected.

5.1.3. The data collected while performing inspections will be used to identify hazards and barriers to working safely and in an environmentally protective manner so that they can be addressed – for example, procedure amendments or purchasing various personal PPE’s.  The data and information also will be tracked as a proactive and preventative measure of acceptable health, safety, and environmental (HSE) behavior on the worksite. Reports and safe work observation information will be shared with employees at Toolbox safety meetings. [Ref. Safe Work Observation].

5.2. Assessment

5.2.1. Once the hazards have been identified, it is necessary to assess what risk they pose to employees in the workplace. In this way we can establish a measure of the risk and determine what priority they should have for corrective action.

5.2.2. The risk assessment step is that part of the process that assesses the probability (likelihood) and consequences (severity) of hazards that have been identified. Once we have estimated the probability/possibilities and consequences/outcomes for each hazard then we can allocate it a priority for corrective action.

5.2.3. Generally, risk assessment is estimating: what are the chances (probability) of an accident happening, and if it does happen, what are the chances that someone will be hurt? What will be the extent of tool, machinery, equipment or environmental damage, and how worst will it be (severity)?

5.2.4. The level of risk is dependent on the exposure to the hazard and the probability and consequences of an event occurring.

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