Introduction

In PDO, we put people at the heart of everything we do and maintain a full commitment to the Golden Rules and our adherence to the Life Saving Rules.

The Transitioning to a new set of Life-Saving Rules have been adopted from the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), this transition is an integral part of PDO’s refreshed approach to safety. This:

• Simplifies and standardizes PDO’s approach to safety with our industry partners
• Broadens scope of the rules focusing on potential for harm to people (e.g. ‘Line of Fire’)
• Creates greater individual and team ownership through “I-statements’.

Aim

That everyone in the organization (PDO and Contractors) understands and complies the Life Saving Rules.

Non-compliance to Life-Saving Rule

Recognising that people are fallible and that "Error is normal", we help each other follow Life-Saving Rules by setting clear expectations, strengthening our controls, and learning from both incidents and normal work.

When something does go wrong, we priorities the learnings and apply an approach called Fair Event Handling. Fair event Handling is how we expect leader’s to respond, and the processes that they should follow related to the findings from an adverse HSE event.

When a Life-Saving Rule is not followed, our priority is to understand what happened, the conditions that influenced the outcome, and the opportunities to improve our systems, processes, and ways of working. Leaders are expected to promote open reporting, learning, and continuous improvement to help prevent recurrence and strengthen safe performance.

If a Life-Saving Rule is not followed despite all enabling conditions being in place, accountability and appropriate consequence management may apply in line with Life-Saving Rules management requirements outlined in HSE Management System and Employee Policy Manual.

More details on peer-to-peer and non-peer-to-peer interventions, as well as the reporting of Life-Saving Rule events: First Report