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Safety Leadership in Practice: A Guide for Managers
This report is designed to support senior and/or middle management and supervisors in applying the Safety Leadership Characteristics described in Report 452 and creating a workplace culture that values safety.
Process safety – recommended practice on key performance indicators
This report provides guidance on identifying leading and lagging process safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the upstream oil and gas industry.
Life-Saving Rules
With the revision of Report 459, IOGP launches a simplified set of Life-Saving Rules to provide workers in the industry with the actions they can take to protect themselves and their colleagues from fatalities.
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Environmental management in the upstream oil and gas industry
This Report provides a detailed overview of environmental management practices in the upstream oil and gas industry. The primary focus is on managing the risk from potential impacts to the natural environment during exploration and production of oil and gas.
Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry
The Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry is a key tool to help companies shape the structure and content of their sustainability reporting.
Introducing JIP33: Standardizing procurement specifications
JIP33 is making a step-change improvement in the specification, procurement and delivery of equipment for the oil and gas industry, through the use of standardized industry procurement specifications.
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Safety data reporting user guide – Scope and definitions (2020 data)
A guide for Member Companies reporting safety performance data
Recommended Practices for Diving Operations
Report 411 provides a framework for a systematic approach to the management of diving operations
High Integrity Protection Systems – Recommended Practice
This document is aimed at those involved in the definition, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of high integrity protection systems (HIPS), and provides technical recommendations on how a HIPS can be utilised.
Safety performance indicators – Motor Vehicle Crash Data 2008–2019 – Executive Summary
A summary document for 2019M – Safety performance indicators – Motor Vehicle Crash Data 2008–2019
Safety performance indicators – Process safety events – 2019 data
IOGP Report 2019p – Safety performance indicators – Process safety events – 2019 data, is a further step towards making Process Safety Event (PSE) data and associated KPIs available to stakeholders.
Safety performance indicators – Motor Vehicle Crash Data – 2008–2019
Driving-related incidents have historically been the single largest cause of fatalities in IOGP Member Company operations. The IOGP Land Transportation Safety Subcommittee (LTSC) aimed to help reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the number of catastrophic, major, and serious road traffic incidents and land transportation-related fatalities by providing guidance on how to implement land transportation safety elements within a management system.