Enhancing Health, Safety & Environmental Plans of Royal Dutch Shell in Oil Production

Running head: HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTAL PLANS IN OIL PRODUCTION
Enhancing Health, Safety and Environmental Plans of Royal Dutch Shell in Oil Production
Name of the Student: - Olufemi Salami
Student ID:-42943
Module Leader: - Christian Koch
University: - Greenwich School of Management

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Abstract
Organizational health, safety and environmental management are important for providing a safe
and secured workplace. However, oil and gas industry workers face some major issues in
working at the workplace. In this perspective, it is important to evaluate the safety and health
taken by the Royal Dutch Shell within of 2006-2015 that is performed in the present study. In
addition, how effective will the policies for the employees in the workplace is the research
question taken. The research consists five chapters such as introduction, review of literature,
research methodology, data analysis and findings and conclusion.

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Acknowledgment
Conduction of the research has been the most enriching experience of my life. The research has
improved my knowledge base and analytical skill. The research would not have been possible to
complete without the guidance of my faculties and peers. I would like to thank my
supervisor................ for consistent help and guidance. Finally, I would like to thank the
clients. The support of all people has been inspiring and enlightening in the process of research.
Thanks and regards,
Yours Sincerely,

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction........................................................................................................7
1.1 Introduction................................................................................................................7
1.5 Background of the study............................................................................................7
1.2 Problem statement.....................................................................................................8
1.3 Aims and objectives of the study.............................................................................10
1.3.1 Aims of the study..................................................................................................10
1.3.2 Objectives of the study.........................................................................................10
1.4 Research Question...................................................................................................10
1.6 Rationale of the study..............................................................................................11
1.7 Structure of the study...............................................................................................12
Chapter 2: Literature review..............................................................................................13
2.1 Introduction..............................................................................................................13
2.2 Overview of environmental impact caused for oil and gas production...................13
2.3 Workplace health and safety models.......................................................................14
2.3 Enhancing Health, Safety and Environmental Plans in Oil Production industry....16
2.4 Risk and Hazard associated in oil and Gas industry................................................17
2.5 Occupational safety and health risk management...................................................18
2.6 Implementation of PDCA cycle...............................................................................18
2.7 Occupational safety and health management system..............................................20
2.8 Other practices to improve the health and safety of the workers within oil and Gas
industry......................................................................................................................................22
2.9 Summary..................................................................................................................24
Chapter 3: Research methodology.....................................................................................26
3.1 Introduction..............................................................................................................26
3.3 Research philosophy................................................................................................26
3.4 Research approach...................................................................................................27
3.5 Research design.......................................................................................................28
3.6 Data collection method............................................................................................28
3.7 Data analysis method...............................................................................................29
3.8 Timetable.................................................................................................................29
3.9 Summary..................................................................................................................29
Chapter 4: Data analysis and findings...............................................................................30
4.1 Introduction..............................................................................................................30
4.2 Qualitative analysis..................................................................................................30
4.3 Summary..................................................................................................................36
Chapter 5: Conclusion and recommendations...................................................................37
5.1 Conclusion...............................................................................................................37
5.2 Recommendations....................................................................................................37
5.3 Limitations and future scopes..................................................................................38
References......................................................................................................................39
Appendix........................................................................................................................42

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction
Keprate and Ratnayake (2016) stated that oil exploration as well as the activities has an
impact on environment positively as well as negatively. The impact is in terms of quality and
quantity of biodiversity in the physical environment. However, it is varied in scale as well as bas
on the biodiversity involved with the procedure. Primary and secondary are the types of impact
categorized.. As much as the production of oil produce costs on environment, it has a direct
impact on economy of the generating state. On the other hand, the industry of oil and gas is
known as one of the universally expanded from temperate forests of Europe to scheduled places
of the Arctic, from Alaska to Australia as well as the rainforests of tropical region (Lee et al.
2016). The industry is considered as the primary source of energy and most effective consumable
energy running other industries from different fields. Apart from these, the industry focuses on
the management of health and safety issues as it is associated with with dangerous safety rocks
along with health issues. In the present research, health, safety and environmental strategies
generated by Royal Dutch Shell is discussed. It is one of renowned of oil and gas in the United
Kingdom is considered as case study organization in order to analyze the impact of oil and gas
production on environment.
1.5 Background of the study
The previous researchers have observed that several accidents occurred in oil and gas
industry, which leads to face injuries to people. In Paraguana refinery complex, a massive oil

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refinery in the world, fire caused death of 151 people. The major cause has been found that
improper security and health measures taken. However, the accidents can be avoided by
implementing effective security policies (Li et al. 2016). On the other hand, the potential impact
of the environment is related to the oil and gas organizations’ activities. It is essential to identify
the ways the ways conciliating development of the industry with protection of the environment,
which is sustainable development. After recovering as well as transportation, crude oil goes
through the process of refining for converting into the specific products holding commercial
value. On the contrary, oil refineries are identified as main polluters and consumer of energy,
water. It also produces waste waters as well as releasing hazardous gases into the atmosphere. It
affects the environment producing waste that are not easy to dispose.
1.2 Problem statement
There are various activities in oil and gas production that causes serious issues to the
lives of workers in the industry as severe circumstances where it is required to work as well as
explosive nature of the products. In this perspective, the organizations should understand the
requirements of safety of the workers. However, it is seen that the organizations do not take
effective actions in this matter (Liu et al. 2016). The facilities for health as well as safety of the
workers are usually neglected in the industry. In a report published by NORA oil and Natural
Extraction Council, it has been depicted that casual death ration is more compared to the other
industries. Consequently, it has become the most significant component in order to measure
strength of environmental as well as health safety. It is required to adopt in the organization,
present in the field of oil as well as gas industry.

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On the other hand, commercial fish species are generally sensitive the sound and close
range. Along with these, the combustion procedure of petroleum production is responsible for
acid rain. The combustion can cause an increased amount of nitrous oxides and sulfur oxide from
sulfur in oil. The products combined with water in atmosphere creates acid rain. On the contrary,
the increased concentrations of nitrates as well as acid substances have a massive impact on the
pH levels of rainfall. The data samples analyzed from all over the world in past 100 years have
shown that there is an increase of nitrous oxide emission from combustion. The acid rain has a
huge impact on larger ecosystem. Acid rain leads to the process of corrosion of machinery as
well as structures and slow destruction of archeological structures such as marble ruins
(Lundgren and McMakin 2018). On the other hand, the combustion of oil and gas production can
cause an increased amount of carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases. In this
perspective, several countries across the world have subsides as well as policies designed to
minimize the utilization of petroleum as well as fossil fuels. The examples consist of China that
switched from giving subsides for fossil fuels to the providing subsides for renewable energy.
The examples also consist of Sweden that created laws that are designed to phase out the process
of using Petroleum. Royal Dutch Shell has planned for implementing for improving health,
safety as well as environmental plans. However, there are also some issues faced in
implementing the plans. Hence, it is vital to find the factors that cause major health and safety
issues in oil and natural gas production and identify as well as evaluate the health and safety
policies of Royal Dutch Shell within 2006-2015 time.