The Oil & Gas industry is volatile, inundated with risks and regulations ranging from worker safety to environmental concerns. Safety managers face daily challenges with insidious hazards and increased danger of "risk tolerance." Organisations should ensure worker protection, as this affects both worker health and business health.
Working in Remote Areas
With rapid oil price growth, many shuttered rigs are reopening, causing remote workers to drive hundreds of miles weekly on back roads to work on compressor stations, pipelines and pump jacks. It's a fact of life for thousands of workers.
Organisations find it difficult to monitor these employees' safety, contact them when risks emerge, and take appropriate action during emergencies. Risks include fatigued drivers, loss of communication, unexpected illness, vehicle breakdowns and accidents at remote locations where assistance isn't immediately available.
Organisations should equip lone workers with lone worker safety tools enabling them to raise alerts when incidents occur and allowing organisations to track their whereabouts.
AtlasNXT Overwatch Feature
Our duty of care platform, AtlasNXT, is the location-intelligence platform built on privacy-first principles. During our webinar, 85% of Oil & Gas professionals identified Lone Worker Monitoring as a current challenge. AtlasNXT Overwatch enables organisations to fulfill duty of care.
Lone workers can start an Overwatch session anytime, prompting operators to take active roles managing live situations. Users control session duration and can extend or end sessions. Operators have full oversight of users with active sessions and can initiate 1-2-1 chats as needed. With Overwatch, organisations can immediately assist lone workers as soon as they approach risk.
Site/Country Evacuation Management
Emergency response plans must account for all potential dangers and specify facility responses. Organisations must identify potential risks, threats and hazards including vehicle collisions, explosions, fires, weather emergencies and machine hazards.
When identifying risks within sites or countries, AtlasNXT allows proper risk assessment in dynamic threat environments, including alert levels, threat identification and probability evaluation.
AtlasNXT Data Feeds
AtlasNXT Data Feeds allow organisations to anticipate and manage risks through curated real-time information tailored to your risk profile. Safety managers can connect relevant data feeds such as weather events, travel information or pandemic data. Aligned with the Dashboard, this enables viewing incident trends across customisable timelines.
The Critical Event Management function creates and manages critical events on live maps, immediately informing organisations of people impacted within defined radius. After identifying impacted people, organisations must communicate evacuation procedures.
AtlasNXT Broadcast Communications
AtlasNXT's Broadcast Communications enables Operations and HR leaders to communicate relevant messages to dynamic groups within chosen locations. Users receive push notification messages directly to their devices.
Takeaways
The Oil & Gas Industry faces stringent health and safety policies. Implementing emergency plans and continuously monitoring employee safety is crucial. Track24 platforms keep your people safe and have helped organisations save lives. The first minutes of emergencies are crucial—life safety is always the first concern, followed by stabilising the situation, then minimising future damage.
We developed AtlasNXT to empower organisations to support employees when emergencies occur, allowing you to anticipate, manage and mitigate risk while supporting employees in critical first minutes.
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