Competence assurance in a complex company
Competence is the fundamental control that is used in industry to function in a safe and effective manner. Even after all mechanical interventions are applied within a system, the competence of human beings is relied upon to make the final decisions and to implement the ultimate actions. To be effective, an Organization must assure itself that all the controls and barriers that are necessary to keep the operations of the business within the designed envelope, are effectively working at or above the minimum required levels. This assurance applies equally to workforce competence as it does to alarms and other automatic control systems. The HSE Management System,/HSE Case methodology that evolved into regulation from the Cullen enquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster demands that specific competence must be in place, and that management must sign off that this is so. Assurance of competence involves identifying critical abilities and defining the standards to which they must be consistently performed, and then implementing a consistent and rigorous means of testing and validating the people who occupy roles that include critical abilities. This paper addresses with the methods that Shell Exploration and Production B.V. has developed to ensure that the competence are in place for critical occupational health, safety and environmental roles.
- OSTI ID:
- 391092
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960623-; TRN: 96:004554-0012
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International conference on health, safety and environment in oil and gas exploration products, New Orleans, LA (United States), 9 Jun - 12 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The third international conference on health, safety & environment in oil and gas exploration and production. Proceedings - Volume 1; PB: 941 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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