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Personal Safety, Business Unit / Functional Area
Leadership Driving Journey to Zero,
Oil Sands & In Situ
John Barrett, left, and Perry Canning show how
teamwork reduced risk and earned their team a POEA.

Personal Safety, Small Team
Edmonton Reinery: Improving Contractor Safety, Reining & Marketing
A hard-hatted approach to safety resulted in an award to this team, represented by Elva Lougheed, left, and Martin Mudryk.

The team’s POEA for Process Safety for Safety’ (OWLS) – an employee-led,

recognizes their efforts to ensure continued behaviour-based safety process that helps
safe SAGD operations at Firebag Stage 4.
reveal workplace risks. Every year since

1995, OWLS has generated almost
Another factor the POEA judges consider is 6,000 observations of 14,000 frontline Personal Safety, Large Team
OWLS Observation Based Safety Process,
transferability, as practices that can be workers. A fresh approach in 2012 with Reining & Marketing
learned by others and used with predictable greater leadership support and employee This group gave a hoot about safety. From left,
Aaron Holyk, Timothy Carmichael, Greg Jansen and
outcomes embody the essence of engagement helped drive safety Gerald Desmarais accept on behalf of their team.
operational excellence.
performance and injury rates toward
best-in-class – key reasons that OWLS
Transferability is a hallmark of our
Edmonton reinery’s ‘Observing Work Life
was the 2013 large team recipient for
Personal Safety.