Metrics

Safety Assurance

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SAMPLE DATA

Completion of NGA Safety Culture Assessment

Increasingly, NGA has become aware of the importance of transforming culture in order to improve safety. Growing interest in safety culture has been accompanied by the need for assessment tools focused on the cultural aspects of safety improvement efforts.

Leadership and Management Commitment

NGA is committed to a safe and to increase awareness about pipeline operations, emergency response, and damage prevention.

Site Visits Plan vs Actual

Leadership visit – a conversation between a leader and an individual worker or team about personnel, asset, work practice or public safety [adapted from Construction Safety Research Alliance].

Risk Management

Risk management provides a foundational part of the assessment of operational pipeline risk. Federal pipeline safety integrity management (IM) regulations require pipeline operators to use risk assessments.

# of Emergent Risks Revealed

Emergent risk – risk identified by a worker not previously identified related materials, equipment, technology, a threat to integrity (or security), work environment, among others. Examples: defective fitting; changing environment.

Operational Controls

Operational controls are security controls that are primarily implemented and executed by people (as opposed to systems). These controls are put in place to improve the security of a particular system (or group of systems).

Procedure Improvements

Process improvement involves the business practice of identifying, analyzing and improving existing business processes to optimize performance, meet best practice standards or simply improve quality and the user experience for customers and end-users.

Non-Compliance Events

Non-compliance – failure to meet state, local or Federal pipeline safety requirement

Operational Findings

Finding - the results of an evaluation of data collected evidence against defined criteria [adapted from ISO 19011:2018, 3.10]

% of Action Items Closed vs Active

Corrective action – action to address issue raised by worker related to pipeline safety. Example, issue raised during the leadership visit that the leader commits to follow-up on and close-out, including ensuring that the worker can see the response. Corrective actions can be generated from many activities such as: near misses, incidents, safety observations, Stop Work Authority events and audits/inspections [Leading Safety Indicator Program Guidance, INGAA Foundation, CS-G-08].

Miles Main/Service, Planned VS Replaced

Pipeline transportation is one of the safest and most cost-effective ways to transport natural gas and hazardous liquid products. As the United States continues to develop and place more demands on energy transportation, it becomes necessary to invest in upgrading its infrastructure, including aging pipelines.

Near Misses

Near miss - An unplanned sequence of events that could have resulted in harm or loss if the conditions were different or if the events were allowed to progress. [From API RP 1173 and the Center for Chemical Process Safety, Risk-Based Process Safety]. Includes good catches.

Stop Work Events

A Stop work event is designed to provide employees and contract workers with the responsibility and obligation to stop work when a perceived unsafe condition or behavior may result in an unwanted event.