I would love to get a few answers for the following riddle:
Why is Chevron's HSE Organization and HSE Metrics so bad?
The floor is yours to everyone including the ones that will say really bad things about this post.
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Because HSE Leadership (beginning at early leadership levels) is selected from those who quietly nod their head and agree with upper leadership. To get promoted to any mid-level manager position, an HSE employee must fit the demographic profile which allows leadership to display their politically correct stance. HSE management is far too concerned about optics, diversity and data, rather than focusing on practical, thoughtful application of fundamental COW policies. Many assertive, intelligent, experience and capable HSE are pushed aside within the ranks to promote others who make the team look progressive. Our field level workforce (those actually doing the work) often has minimal safety training from their employer, frequent communication / language barriers among the workforce and overall low capacity for closely following detailed processes and procedures. Safety performance is universally determined by the workforce. HSE can coach, mentor, and use SWA when appropriate; but it is the people (largely blue collar men) who actually do the real work. Its they who perform the job tasks that must be relied on to work safely. Work experience, hazard awareness, system understanding, task specific training, risk tolerance and intelligence all contribute to the results in the field. HSE can have some effect, but by all truthful and realistic probabilities, at best a moderate impact on the performance of safe work. To a very large degree, our business partner / contractor's safety training and overall safety culture matters more than ours. Chevron's on-site leadership, including HSE, provide oversight and intervene often with positive results but the workforce is, in most cases, not employed by Chevron, not trained by Chevron, broadly undisciplined, and minimally concerned with basic safety guidelines. You can't watch everyone closely all the time. In my 20 years with Chevron I can tell you this with certainty, if Chevron site level leadership, including HSE did not daily enforce rules, procedures and processes it would be a free for all out in the field. The degree of concern for safety by many of our contract employees is no where nearly as high as leadership believes and not even close to what is required to maintain IFO. Perfect execution demands perfect performance, and it simply will not happen as long as humans are involved.
@n7. Agree re JC. Disagree re MB. Fortunately JC is heading out. KD is a disaster and there is no accountability for the poor OE performance under his watch.
Are they ready for increased RSI injuries since we’re all moving to shared workspaces and throwing all the the ergo stuff aside?
They are just burying the incidents now. It looks bad and we all know why but they just don't advertise them any longer.
Noone cares about HSE org
MB, JC