Planning for Field Compliance

Ergonomics is just one area in which many companies have adopted stringent internal requirements. Companies concerned about indoor air 

Inside compliance issues can originate from a variety of different departments. The different departments that may have safety-related compliance issues could include the following  

The term field might give one the impression that I am referring to the great outdoors—a place where cornfields have been converted to some other use. But for the purposes of this discussion, the field is anywhere that work (not farming work) goes on, including many office spaces. Let me offer some examples. 

One of my steadier customers used to be a large financial services company. Most of the workforce at this financial services company included office-type workers who performed most of their hours at work on the phone or in front of a computer terminal or both. They have a huge customer service contingent, along with thousands of people who work in the collection department. Besides the office workers, this company has a small maintenance staff that takes care of physical facilities. Services to this company include heating/cooling maintenance, clean air, janitorial services, and small repairs. For this company, the field is actually office space. Their safety issues included  

So the field is not always the field per se. For a financial services firm, the field is actually what most other people would consider the office. There are safety-related issues in the field no matter what type of business one is in. 

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Use of conservation tillage was one of the primary ways United States farmers met Conservation Compliance requirements of the 1985 Farm Bill. More than 75% of conservation plans for fields with Highly Erodible Land mandated some level of crop residue cover achievable through the use of conservation tillage. 

Tangible benefits of consolidation could be identified readily. Experience in the Conroe field as well as other large MER fields has shown that the con solidated/automated production method improves safety, environmental compliance, and energy conservation and increases the profitability of existing reserves. On the basis of this experience, the plan for consolidating all properties was presented to the unit working interest owners for approval. Consolidation and automation were approved on the basis of economic benefits in six major areas. 

In a well-developed safety culture, there will typically be two types of documents used for planning field compliance a safety program (or general safety manual) and a site-specific safety plan. These two documents are sometimes intertwined and used interchangeably, even among safety experts, but these two documents are very different. These two key planning documents will aid in attaining safe work performance. 

OSHA IMIS Records of workplace inspections, including those prompted by accidents where a worker is injured 1984-Present Information from OSHA field inspections, a third party More accurate description of impacts on employees and contractors Keyword indexing allows for easy search and retrieval Not comprehensive, limited to incidents selected by OSHA Inspections without abstracts cannot be keyword searched causal information unavailable Designed to assist compliance enforcement, not to report on incident causes Limited information from State-Plan states Not designed to be a lessons-leamed database... 

Development of Compliance Plans. The R,D D tasks, for environmental as well as the other three activities included in the Management Plan are carried out in conjunction with, or as part of, major field projects. These projects, which involves engineering and construction activities, must comply with Federal, state, and local standards, and in particular, with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 

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