Vision

Safety is our culture: it is fundamental to our values, our practices, but also to our attitudes and our behaviours. We have now achieved such a high level of maturity when it comes to handling safety – and especially major risks – that we can now say we are all fully committed to safety – both individually and collectively.

If we want to do more and enact a genuine paradigm shift, we need to see safety in a positive light at all times. Ultimately, we must realise that keeping our operations running rightly is more beneficial than simply investigating why incidents happen.

Each and every one of us has a role to play. Safety, quality and productivity are closely intertwined, and the same underlying factors enable us to perform well in all three areas. Clearly, when we achieve safety, quality and productivity together, we can safely say that we have had a good day – a “Golden Day”. And this happens, first and foremost, at team level.

Pathway

If we want to make sure every day goes well, we need to get the basics right in terms of prevention. We need to be professional!

If we want to perform well, we must be able to anticipate undesirable events that may occur during our activity. We need to enhance our expertise!

Our production teams can only achieve good performance, day in day out, if everyone contributes. Importantly, some managerial decisions can have harmful consequences on the organisation of work and our teams’ day-to-day operations. Thus, achieving good results and maximising the number of Golden Days is also about identifying and understanding problems in the field so we can:

• Anticipate, detect and deal with disparities in relation to nominal situations,
• Develop our ability to anticipate events and deal with unexpected circumstances,
• Define rules and allocate resources more appropriately.

Similarly, we need to develop the ability of our teams to adapt to variations in the work environment or unusual situations, while ensuring safety, quality and productivity. Indeed, by sharing good practices, everyone will boost their business line expertise.

As you will be aware, if we want every day to be a Golden Day, we must get the basics right, harness our expertise, and become better at adapting. This is an innovative and experimental approach that we will lead together, on the same pathway.

Golden Days identification and follow-up

A Golden Day is not about personal opinions. It is based on objective criteria. A Golden Day is a day when we meet an inseparable threefold target based upon the following elements:

• Safety: we have zero events with a major risk, zero serious incidents, zero lost-time injuries and restricted works,
• Productivity: we meet our daily commitments,
• Quality: we take pride in getting things right first time (and reach the client satisfaction in addition).

Individual team leaders are responsible for determining whether or not each day has been a Golden Day within their team – a decision taken collectively with the team at the day-end debriefing.

Using our mobile app, we can record every Golden Day and follow our progress.

Managers are also required to track statistics within their remit, understand the reasons behind any drop-in performance, and come up with appropriate solutions. In short, it is a process of continuous improvement.

The Mobile App

Our mobile app is packed with tools to help each and every one of us do better, as we look to increase the number of Golden Days towards 365 per year.

Our existing resources include the HSE Policy, the Safety Golden Rules, the Control Guide, the Recognition Policy, the Management Guides, additional core tools to help us put our safety approach into action, plus a good practice discussion forum, and a “news” section.

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