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Abstract
Abstract: Don’t Get Hurt! How to Stay Safe When You’re Working in the Oil Fields.
In the past several years, with the rapid increase in drilling activities in shale gas plays, and volatility in the price of oil, there has been an increased need for environmental consultants to be traveling around oil fields, gas plants and other oil and gas properties.
In addition to the more traditional soil and ground water investigations and clean-ups, we find ourselves helping with environmental site assessments, environmental safety and health assessments, water resource and water management projects and a host of other activities that place us in and around oil field workers and equipment.
We come to the field with a specific job, but the most important task for each of us is to make sure we and our staff come home safe. The major oil and gas companies have high expectations for contractors’ safety on their sites. Many have specific non-negotiable rules that must be followed. In addition, they usually expect workers to utilize behavior-based safety tools such as last minute risk assessments, job safety analysis, observations, and coaching.
This presentation will include a brief overview of common non-negotiable rules and behavior based safety tools employed by many oil and gas companies. We will close out our time with Interactive hazard recognition exercises.
Biographical Sketch
Troy W. Meinen is a Texas Professional Geoscientist and Global Health and Safety Advisor with ERM in Houston. Over his 19-year career, he has worked on a wide variety of industrial facilities and upstream oil and gas projects to address contaminated ground water, soil and sediment issues. He currently manages investigation and remediation of upstream oil and gas sites and assists with due diligence for large oil and gas acreage position transactions for major Oil and Gas clients. This includes assessment of water use and protection, property transaction support, environmental impact assessment, environmental permitting and management, and Stakeholder concerns. Over the past 10 years, he has served as a trainer for both BP and ExxonMobil safety systems. He is responsible for growing client-specific safety cultures in ERM and subcontractor teams around the globe.
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1 Troy Meinen P.G.: ERM
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