Effectiveness of Safety Management in Oil and Gas Industry

In any line of work, there will be hazards in the workplace. In the industry of oil and gas especially, as the industry will be always constantly adapting to changes over time, whether in terms of technology, market demands or price thus increase the operational risk in the operation. The purpose of this research is to study on the current practices of safety management implemented in the upstream part in the oil and gas industry and its effectiveness, altogether to emphasize on the importance of safety management system in the industry. The number of employment in the operation of the industry has increased greatly these past years due to a large number of demand in the workforces, thus making safety management system more important to make sure the overall safety and to reduce accidents in the operation in the industry. Major to minor accidents can happen including near miss, and this can give effect on the industry either in economic term or in workplace and workforce terms and operation in the industry require a large number of investment and long period of operation. This research will focus on the implemented safety management in upstream sector of oil and gas industry especially in PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd in Malaysia and evaluate and investigate its effectiveness. The research will put safety management as the main factor in preventing and reducing accidents and incidents to occur in industries of the oil and gas and emphasize on awareness and importance of managing safety in oil and gas industry. The data are collected from past researches and from questionnaire survey. The data and results gained from the survey are analysed using the Relative Importance Index (RII) where the outcomes is analysed and rank based on its importance and also by using Average Index (AI) where the feedbacks from the survey is analysed according to the degree of agreement by the respondents. This is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of safety management in the upstream sector of the industry and in conjunction highlighting the importance of safety management.