Planning Area
Through Planning area actions, companies improve performance by establishing standard requirements, by instituting high risk identification and evaluations, and by managing change to equipment and operations.
Below are resources and tools available to support participants as they work to advance personal and process safety within their organizations. These resources may be filtered by OSA Foundational Area as well as OSA Participant Action. These resources are provided for illustration purposes only and do not amend existing industry standards or establish new standards. Each company should develop its own approach, and sound business, scientific, engineering, and safety judgment should be used in employing the information contained herein.
Through Planning area actions, companies improve performance by establishing standard requirements, by instituting high risk identification and evaluations, and by managing change to equipment and operations.
The Leadership area encourages companies to take steps within their organization which establish visible leadership through regular and effective communication and engagement with front line supervision and other members of the onsite workforce.
Learn about Chevron's approach to life-saving actions.
IOGP has developed many resources and tools around its Life-Saving Rules which are available for free to all companies.
What –If Analysis is a structured risk assessment method of determining the potential consequences of the failures that could occur and judging the likelihood of those consequences.
Learn about Marathon's approach to life-saving actions.
Barriers or safeguards are equipment or actions that directly prevent or mitigate an incident or impact.
Learn about Patterson-UTI's approach to life-saving actions.
Learn about Hess' approach to life-saving actions.
OSA guiding principles serve to guide every action taken by the program and its participants, who are working together to drive step-change to eliminate serious injury and fatality events.