The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers(IOGP)is a global upstream focused forum in whichmember companies identify and share best practices to achieve improvements in many areas includingsafety.In 2017,the IOGP launched an initiative called Project Safira with the aim of eliminating fatalities.One of the work streams within this project was to refresh,simplify and reduce the number of industry Life-Saving Rules to encourage industry standardization.The development of the original IOGP eight core and ten supplemental Life-Saving Rules was based onan analysis of thousands of fatal and high potential events.An industry team of subject matter experts,HSE,and operations professionals formed as a task force.This group conducted a comprehensive analysis of thelatest 10 years of fatality data and developed an updated set incorporating the latest thinking on humanperformance and lessons learned from member companies'experiences in implementation.From 2008 to 2017,376 workers lost their lives in incidents that may have been prevented by followingone of the new nine IOGP Life-Saving Rules.With the benefit of having an additional seven years of dataand feedback from member companies on their adoption of the previous set of Life-Saving Rules,the IOGPhas streamlined the original 18 rules down to nine,while retaining the level of applicability in fatalityprevention.The Life-Saving Rules are not intended to replace company HSE management systems,but are ratheraimed at complementing existing organizational processes and procedures.The rules provide simple actionsin the form of'I statements'which can provide a final barrier that individuals have control over,and bytheir own actions can prevent fatalities.Having the largest database of safety performance and fatality data in the upstream oil and gas industry,the IOGP has the ability to analyze trends and build on learning from fatal incidents on an industry-widebasis.
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