Implementing the Life-Saving Rules

Companies are encouraged to manage specific risks that are not covered by the Life-Saving Rules in a different way, either by campaigns, training, site Rules and procedures or local activities specific to the particular risk that they need to manage.  Adding extra Rules may dilute the benefit of industry standardisation.

No. The idea behind the Life-Saving Rules is that they are standard and recognisable as Industry Life-Saving Rules, so if you use IOGP’s Life-Saving Rules, the icons or the wording are not to be altered in any way.

Yes.

While we strongly encourage Companies to refer to the Rules as “Life-Saving Rules”, we are less concerned about the overarching title of the program – what is important to us is that the icons and “I” statements remain the same and that people don’t try to add any more.

This will very much depend on your company culture and how it applies consequence management.  The important thing is to understand why Rules are not followed and embrace the learning and improvement opportunity. The organisation has a role in positively reinforcing an open reporting culture, i.e. for self-reported errors and peer-to-peer interventions and responding appropriately where cases of ‘non-reporting’ are found. The intent is to understand why people did what they did, what conditions and environment drove the non-conformance, and to identify and apply lessons learned.

Post implementation, there will be a step change improvement in safety performance related to fatalities associated with work-related deaths and serious injuries.

You can provide feedback to IOGP at lsr@iogp.org.

IOGP welcome any feedback on best practices, instances of nonconformance, and sharing of lessons learned in order to implement improvements, provide additional guidance and prevent similar challenges globally.