Accident Causation

Accident causation
Rev: 1.1 11/04/01

An accident may be defined as an undesired event

that results in harm to people, damage to property, loss
of process and/or production.

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Purpose
To minimise accidental loss and risk exposure to personnel, process,
production and equipment.
The following notes serve to assist all personnel to ensure that proper
standards are established, maintained and complied with, to prevent and
eliminate accident loss potential during all drilling and well servicing
operations.

Responsibilities
It will be the responsibility of all senior drilling representatives to ensure
that others with duties relating to safety management controls contained
within this document are aware of their responsibilities.

Scope
These procedures shall apply to all drilling personnel.

Further References
Drilling contractors and Operators mutually agreed specific safety
management and accident prevention procedures.

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Table of contents
ACCIDENT CAUSATION ............................................................................................................

Purpose.........................................................................................................................................

Responsibilities............................................................................................................................

Scope............................................................................................................................................

Further References ........................................................................................................................

Table of contents..........................................................................................................................

ACCIDENT CAUSATION ............................................................................................................

Lack of control.............................................................................................................................

Basic causes ..................................................................................................................................

Immediate causes .........................................................................................................................

Incident / Contact.......................................................................................................................

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Loss............................................................................................................................................

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APPENDIX 1..................................................................................................................................

Accident or Loss Causation Model..............................................................................................

The loss Control Iceberg..............................................................................................................

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Accident causation
Lack of control
Without adequate management controls, the cause and effect sequence will
begin, that if not corrected in time, will result in accidents and loss occurring.
Managers, Leaders, Supervisors must thus plan to organise, lead, execute
and control operational activities more effectively. If not, then accidents will be
caused.
The three most common reasons for lack of control are;

1. Inadequate programs
2. Inadequate program standards
3. Inadequate compliance to standards.
Correcting these three reasons for lack of control is thus a critical
management responsibility.
Developing an adequate training program and standards is however an
executives function, that would be aided and recommended by supervisors.
Finally maintaining compliance with standards is a supervisory
function, aided by executives.

Accident Loss control is thus a management team effort, all

the way.

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Basic causes
Basic causes are the diseases or real causes behind the symptoms: i.e. the
reasons why substandard acts and conditions have occurred.
Factors take note that if identified at some stage in any unplanned event
and/or accident occurrence, could have permitted more meaningful
management and control to have taken place.
Often basic causes are referred to as the Root, real, indirect, underlying
or contributory causes. This is because the immediate causes i.e. the
symptoms , substandard acts and conditions are often quite apparent, but
is takes a bit of probing to get at the basic causes and some more effort to
gain control of them.

Basic causes however can help explain why people perform

substandard practices.
Basis causes can also assist to explain why substandard
conditions exist.
Basic causes finally can be categorised into two major categories
i.e.

1.

Personal factors

2.

Job factors (work environment)

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