Risk Management: Principles and Features of Safety Case in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

Running head: RISK MANAGEMENT
risk management

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Executive Summary:
This paper describes the meaning of The Safety Case in context with offshore oil and gas
operations. It includes principles and features of the safety case that should be applied to all
the organization and groups working in this area. Further, it contains the information about
the Piper Alpha Oil and Gas Disaster which was caused by loss of life by 167 workers
working on the deck of Piper Alpha. It was a major explosion of gas and oil which resulted in
a big fire. It took almost 3 weeks to control the fire. Keeping in view this, this paper also
includes the implications of some features of safety case which could be applied to prevent
the disaster or to minimize the loss. At the end of the paper, a conclusion has been drawn on
the basis of the whole discussion to provide the overview of the mentioned content.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Safety Case:................................................................................................................................2
Principles:...............................................................................................................................2
Features:.................................................................................................................................3
Piper Alpha Oil and Gas Platform Explosion, 1988:.................................................................5
Application of the features of The Safety Case:........................................................................5
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction:
Implementation of effective and efficient chemical substitution policies and management
functions at the workplace can result in benefits related to health and safety of workers. Risk
management is a process which involves identification, assessment and controls the threats to
an organization's earnings and capital. These risks and threats can be generated from a variety
of sources including legal liabilities, financial uncertainty, accidents, strategic management
errors and natural disasters. Risks related employee’s safety and security is the major issue to
be concerned about the organizations working in the chemical industry (Authority, 2018).
This paper describes the key risk management features for the safety and security of
employees from major and sudden accidents. Since disasters can be occurred due to human
intervention and due to natural causes. In case of human intervention, disasters can be
controlled up to some extent but in case of natural disaster, only efforts can be made to
minimize the loss. The paper also includes applications of some identified features that could
be used to prevent the loss, which had to bear because of Piper Alpha Oil & Gas Platform
Explosion (Center, 2013).
Safety Case:
A safety case can be explained as a document produced by the provider of a facility which
includes identifying the risks and hazards, describes the process of controlling risks and
safety management features to ensure the effectiveness and consistency of controlling
measures.
Principles:
Some principles of the safety case are as follows:
1. The first principle states that it is required to manage the risk by the person who
created it. It is the job of the operator to identify their processes, systems, and
procedures to evaluate and identify risks and then applying an appropriate controlling
system. Because the operator is the one who has depth knowledge about the
installation under his control.
2. The second principle states that safety case is required to identify the managerial and
technical criticalities of the facility (Shallcross, 2013).
3. This principle states that for the management of the safety aspects, appropriate
performance standards should be used in a proper way.