xxonMobil Upstream Nigeria (UN) affiliates at the beginning of 2016 rolled out the One Team, One Job …make it E count for safety and profit campaign focused on improving these key areas; elimination of serious incidents, growing of profitable volumes, and improving profitability. The campaign strategy was to use phased workforce engagement to promote understanding of the three key company priorities that will engender improved team collaboration, process ownership, and promote behavioural change. In these interview excerpts, Carol Antaih, general manager, SHE, UN and Oluseyi Fadahunsi, management support manager, UN shed light on the accomplishments, improvements, challenges that caps the campaign.
Improvements in safety performance / profitability since the campaign kicked off Antaih: 'One Team, One Job' campaign has helped us as one organization, focusing on our goal of Nobody Gets Hurt. Thus, getting us as a team to have the mindset that we are one team has helped to ensure the safety culture and message is consistent across board. We have seen an improvement in the uptake of the safety vision, focus and message as one team. We know that if a team member is hurt, irrespective of the department, everyone is affected. The focus has made us to care more for one another, because we are one team. Fadahunsi: We have made some important observations since this campaign kicked off. It's clear that this campaign was most effective because of the boost from other initiatives we are currently executing within the organization. One of the major wins of the campaign is on a mindset change of the workforce. We have to give it that credit, and the success of aligning it with other initiatives that is run throughout the several functions within the company.
going to platforms and talking to PICs. In the Executive Safety Council, we have seen broader leadership there. Same with the Safe-start engagement with the workforce. Overall, we have seen top-down leadership evident among the workforce, and that has contributed to the safety performance. Lastly on safety, is the ground-up ownership. Ground-up ownership simply means, you and I owning the safety performance of things around us and being responsible for the safety of others; that is, intervening and caring for others (learning and applying the learnings). At the beginning of the 2016, we stated that we want to build the culture of learning, which basically means I see a safety incidence, I see a narrative about what happened, I see a broader sharing of the lessons learned, and I as an individual reflect on those learnings and think about how those learnings peculiarly apply to me. In this whole process, I think we are beginning to see some improvement in it. And that's good. For profitability, there are two areas - broader efficiencies and volumes improvement. In 2016, this initiative coupled with every other good work that's been going on around the functions
For safety, there are few key areas that we have seen improvement since this campaign began. Again, trying to change the mindset of the workforce, we have seen that in 2016, potential hurts and high potential incidents are continuing to decline (the safety data buttresses it). I would not say it's just this campaign alone that made this happen. It's this campaign in conjunction with all the several initiatives that are being done. However, this campaign is critical, because it's a mindset change that we are trying to drive through the organization. We have seen the benefits of Good-to-Go initiative and other initiatives like Stop, Think, Act in play. We noticed the workforce are more focused on the barriers, effectiveness of those barriers, and making sure that each barrier is checked and that they are healthy. Also, there has been some improvement in top-down leadership. It's been evident. Again, for safety, there is a lot of leadership and accountability that comes with it. Thus, we can allude that the good safety performance is closely linked to effective leadership accountability. For instance, we have seen leadership leading in several initiatives like sponsored facilities visit. We have seen leadership
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