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.