Thoughts on HSE Management

Keeping your employees safe in the work place should be a top priority. This is especially true in the oil and gas industry.  To that end, today’s post will discuss why HSE management is important and some techniques you can apply to your business plan.
 
Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) involves creating processes for identifying workplace hazards, reducing accidents and minimizing exposure to harmful situations and substances.  This is accomplished by developing detailed operating procedures and then effectively communicating the information to your team. It is important to ensure that the information has been internalized and must be monitored to verify that it is followed.  The main goal is to maintain a safe and productive work environment. 

Why HSE Management is Important

• It prevents your business from being fined for unsafe environments.
• It will help you keep production levels up.
• It protects your company from liability and a bad reputation.
  

How to Get Employees to Comply

Employees must complete hours of training that many people find boring and useless. To keep them interested, you should develop a safety compliance plan that is interactive, interesting, and to-the-point.

• Design the training to help your employees, keeping in mind their backgrounds and what they already know.
• Keep the training session short. Break up the information into several sessions if necessary.
• Use bullet points for large amounts of information.
• Choose carefully which topics you want to cover, to avoid information overload.
• If possible, add humor to your lessons. This will help employees connect on a different level and make the training more enjoyable for everyone.
• Make the trainings available online. This will allow employees to work on it from virtually any location, encouraging faster completion.
  

Accupoint Software provides a variety of HSE management solutions that improve operations and help businesses sort through complicated and ever-changing safety regulations. To learn more about how can help, contact us.