HOUSTON—Safety is paramount within the energy industry. However, a new approach to safety has cropped up in the industry: what if instead of learning from mistakes, oil and gas companies learned from their successes?
Industry leaders speaking during a session on “Learning From Accidents or Learning Before Accidents” at SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) shared their visions on learning from normal work—or operational learning, discussed how it can benefit the industry and offered tactics on how to implement it.
“It’s about our ability to learn from those instances where nothing goes wrong, from our everyday operations. It’s about those opportunities to help us get ahead of the times we might have an incident,” said David Hammons, organizational learning manager at Chevron Technical Center.