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Changing safety, one step at a time

Lapses in operational discipline contributed The project teams will now come together “As strong as our processes and tools have

to more than 65 per cent of signiicant to review their scopes and implement the potential to be, these alone won’t keep

incidents over the last year at Oil Sands & work plans.
us safe,” says Ryan, an Oil Sands mining
In Situ, according to the Safety Step supervisor. “The people we work with at all
Most areas have a connection to our
Change task force.
levels of the organization, as well as our
Operational Excellence Management facilities, are the keys to the success of
The task force was established in April to System (OEMS) and through the project,
those safety systems.”
examine what we need to do to make a teams will be monitored to ensure
signiicant improvement in safety given the alignment with our OEMS action plan. Ryan summed it up nicely in a recent

high number of serious incidents in Oil This will help reduce duplication and safety moment he presented at a task
Sands in 2014.
ensure the right work is prioritized.
force workshop.

The case for knowing and following Task force member Ryan Davie says we need “We need to keep our commitment to

procedures has never been stronger and to ensure the focus is on the workforce.
achieve a step change. Our expectation
now, seven project teams backed by the must be to continually raise the bar,

Oil Sands leadership team are in place to ensure we all do the right thing, and
not only address improving our collective have respect for our processes, tools and

operational discipline, but also the other each other. In doing so, safety will truly
common themes that emerged from more be valued above all else.”

than 2,200 pieces of employee and
contractor feedback, as well as an external More information about the project
teams and their key focus areas is
review and a major incident assessment.
included on P. 8.

“We are now passing the baton from Phase 1
research to Phase 2 implementation

planning,” says Doreen Cole, task force
co-lead and VP, operations integration,

Oil Sands. “This is our most critical
juncture. It’s where we can make the

biggest difference for our workforce by
working together to implement a step-

change improvement in our safety focus
and performance.”

Doreen Cole

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Check out the Safety Step
Change task force page on
the Core > Departments >
Oil Sands > EHS > Safety
Step Change Task Force.