9.00 Chairman’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

9.15 Myriad of new legislations, frameworks and metrics: Understanding effective implementation and ensuring full compliance

• American Petroleum Institute’s response to last year’s disaster and how they are moving on from Macondo as an organization
• Tools to assist in meeting targets and standards set by regulators on an industry and government level
• Assessment of pre-incident regulations and policies and rolling out new recommendations: operating procedures, equipment, subsea well containment and offshore response
• Discuss current standards and how they have been reviewed and refined as part of the API’s response

Holly Hopkins
Policy Advisor, Upstream and Industry Operations
American Petroleum Institute

10.00 2010 Gulf of Mexico incident: API and industry actions – COS (Center for Offshore Safety)

• The role of the newly formed API task group, COS - an optimum “for the industry by the industry” organization focused entirely on safety
• Understanding the recommendations of the Presidential Commission, National Academy Commission, and other groups that have made recommendations on industry safety after the 2010 GOM incident, and how COS will be the Organization that develops and manages the industry responses
• Prime focus of activities will be on Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) and process safety
• How COS will promote the highest level of safety for offshore drilling, completions, and operations by effective leadership, communication, teamwork, utilization of disciplined safety management systems and independent third-party auditing and certification

Charlie Williams
Chief Scientist, Well Engineering and Production Technology
Shell

11.15 Safety Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) – latest developments and their impact on operator contractor operations

• Marrying SEMS with legacy systems – challenges and solutions
• Tools to evaluate compliance
• How the Center for Offshore Safety can support the industry in these areas

12.00 Safety and Environment Management Systems (SEMS) for offshore operations – the contractor’s perspective

• Brief overview of the 30CFR 250 Subpart S – Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS),
• Focus on how Baker Hughes (BHI) is meeting or exceeding customer and compliance requirements
• Primary focus on four key areas of SEMS for service companies contractors: Safe work practices, training / competence assurance management, management of change and mechanical integrity

Troy Nugent
Sr. Director Global Offshore Safety, HSSE
Baker Hughes

2.00 Safety lifecycle – how a holistic view improves both safety and availability while reducing cost

• Addressing the safety lifecycle and identifying the importance of a holistic approach
• Implementing cost-effective and compliant smart safety systems
• Increase the resilience of your safety systems through effective implementation of HAZOP
• Sustain process efficiency whilst maintaining high levels of safety through the assessment of key working practices

Session reserved for Sponsor

2.45 Developing an organizational safety culture through disciplined processes that work

• Incorporating and integrating HSE in the design stage
• Having a clear understating of the project objectives and how they tie into HSE priorities
• Culture and change management – addressing processes, attitudes, policies, priorities, systems and leadership
• Reduce the impact of major accident hazards in a multifaceted organization through getting employees’ buy-in and educating them on new processes

Cees de Regt
Director of Process Safety
AMEC

4.00 Developing best-in-class safety processes for maximum uptime and seamless offshore operations

• Ensuring the complete value chain is defined, clear and practical
• Minimizing confusion from multiple standards – ISO, SEMS, API – by successfully weaving these standards in a practical and efficient way
• Managing different silos and their respective agendas through clear communications and competency training
• How do you roll out HSE processes on a global level?

4.45 Practical and effective use of psychology toward risk reduction and safety performance improvement

• Use of psychology to effect behavioral change and reduce risk
• The dangers of excessive application and how to avoid being misunderstood, misapplied, or counterproductive and overwhelming to the end user
• Experiences and pitfalls of good intentions, discussing how and why they occur, and how you can protect against this
• Discussion of behavioral based safety: one card a day; on the job training: completion targets vs competence; personality traits: the person vs situation debate; positive vs. negative accountability: “I am accountable.”

Mike Merritt
Operational Integrity Manager, Corporate QHSE
Transocean

5.30 End of Conference Day One