{"id":24630,"date":"2018-06-22T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boartlongyear.com\/?p=24630"},"modified":"2019-07-08T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T21:58:25","slug":"increasing-safety-by-learning-from-mistakes-near-misses-and-management-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boartlongyear.com\/es\/insite\/increasing-safety-by-learning-from-mistakes-near-misses-and-management-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mejorar la seguridad aprendiendo de los errores y los cuasi accidentes y aprovechando las interacciones administrativas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article also appeared in Australian Mining's Safe To Work Magazine, October 2018, pages 30-31.
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Life is full of regrettable moments, so wouldn\u2019t it be great if we could share those instances so that others don\u2019t have the same pitfalls and mishaps?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/section>

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This is not a new thought as we hear so often about \u2018best practices\u2019 and have many laws, regulations, policies, and procedures that we must adhere to. Protection, safety and security is often the underlying reason behind what we are required to do. We must abide by the law to stop at a red light not because of the threat of a ticket, but because ignoring it could bring severe consequences to ourselves, others, or property.<\/p>\n

In the drilling industry, safety is critical. Although equipment is continually improving for productivity and safety, human supervision and interaction are still required and we know, as the English poet Alexander Pope pronounced, \u201cTo err is human...\u201d<\/p>\n

No one is perfect, but that is the fun of living in a world with so much variety. We would all like to think we have it all figured out, but the reality is that we always have something new to learn. And sometimes we go through an experience and immediately adjust behavior only to find that a short time later our habitual tendencies put us right back to before we learned our new-found experiential knowledge. Who hasn\u2019t been sunburned more than once, or that blister reappears because once again we didn\u2019t use gloves when gardening?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/section>

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Managing Safety<\/span><\/h3>
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So, how do we learn from our mistakes and help others learn from these mistakes so they don\u2019t go down that same possibly hazardous path? There are obviously many things that can be done, but here we will approach one way that has made a huge impact on improving safety for drilling activities around the world.<\/p>\n

Boart Longyear\u2019s Environmental Health and Safety team (E&HS) incorporated an incident-management database system to track, report, and promote a conscientious safe working environment. The company is not the first to use such a system, and fortunately many companies today have similar safety database systems. The premise behind the system is to reduce risk by helping people learn and change so they will practice safer behaviors and proactively address hazards before they result in an injury.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Employees are trained to report any incident, big or small, and designated employees enter all incidents, near misses, and management interactions into the incident management system.<\/p>\n