Practical, field-tested writing on oil and gas safety, grounded in Human and Organizational Performance principles and nearly three decades of operational experience. None of it is theory without a field anecdote behind it.
One injury, three citations, and more than $36,000 in proposed penalties. Here is what went into the informal conference that reclassified both serious items and settled the case for under $5,000.
Somewhere in your operation right now, a well-site supervisor may be managing costs instead of managing the operation. Here's how normalization of deviance shows up in the field, and what actually reverses it.
A wireline hand on a night shift needs an answer in under thirty seconds, and neither of his two safety systems gives him one. Overlapping safety management systems are a leadership design problem, not a training gap.
Two workers cross the tape they just agreed not to cross, five minutes after signing off on the hazard. Retraining them fixes nothing if the conditions that produced the shortcut are still standing there.
The same diagnostic thinking behind these field notes, built into a seven-section scored workbook you can run against your own program.
A new hire passes H2S certification with a perfect score. Three weeks later, he's caught working with an uncalibrated monitor because that's how the crew on nights has always done it. The gap between certified and competent has a name.
Four maintenance interval extensions and one overruled defect call brought down Alaska Airlines Flight 261. The same pattern runs on your locations every time a production number outweighs the maintenance window protecting it.