SIF Intervention
No Mystery
With experience in construction, utilities, transportation and all phases of the petroleum industry, we know SIF's are not anomalies. There are telltale signs that can help you prevent the next incident if know where to look. You can focus scarce resources of time, training, supervisor effort, and investigations on the areas that count the most.
It's time to shift our focus
After having spent decades driving down the total incident rates, we now have the data to prove that all incidents are not created equally. We have succeeded in reducing the number of band-aids but still need the same number of coffins!
In most companies, only 20-25% of incidents have SIF potential. What that means is that even if we eliminate the other 75%, the occurrence of serious incidents and fatalities will not go down. It is time to switch our approach.
Rather than treating all incidents the same, we can focus on the 25% of incidents that have SIF potential.
The Main Thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing, and you can't have 500 main things. Our candid conversations with workers across the world tell us that people think we are majoring in the minors! We spend too much time harping on the little stuff at the expense of the things that can kill them. When we make SIF exposure our main thing, we earn the engagement of leaders and workers alike. A careful analysis of your SIF precursors allows you and your team to focus on the stuff that really matter in terms of keeping people alive.