IADC Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference & Exhibition

7:30 am Registration, Coffee Service & Exhibition Red Oak Ballroom AB

7:45 am Speaker Briefing (Speakers, Moderators & Session Chairs only) Magnolia

8:30 am Welcome & Introduction Magnolia

• Brooke Polk, Vice President – Accreditation Operations, IADC
• Ryan Smallwood, Chair, IADC HSET Committee; HSE Manager – Content Development, Patterson-UTI
  

8:40 am IADC Vice Chairman Address: Roddie Mackenzie, 2025 IADC Vice Chair; EVP & Chief Commercial Officer, Transocean

9:00 am HOP Design Factors
Moderator: Richard Grayson, Sr. QHSE Manager, Global Well Control Focal Point, Nabors Corporate Services
Panelists will discuss integrating HOP principles into the design and how industry can improve interfaces.  

• Mike Seminatore, Lead Engineer, US Operations, Precision Drilling
• Victor Villegas, VP, QHSE, Nabors
• Additional panelists to be named

10:00 am Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing 

10:30 am Human & Organizational Performance
Session Chair: Dave Massey, Chief Executive Officer, The REACH Group

Learning from Success: Success Assessment vs. Risk Assessment: Abdelsalam Yasseen, Sr HSE Programs Manager, Baker Hughes
Risk Assessments are very common, yet they are focused on how to prevent things going “wrong.” Success Assessment provides a different prospective, it looks into what is required to have a successful job, instead of only prevention, success attempt to dig deeper into the conditions required to have every job, a successful job.

Putting People in Harm’s Way on Purpose: Controlling SIF Potential: Erika Gwilt, Vice President, Executive Consultant, DEKRA North America
Understanding and managing Serious Injury and Fatality potential (SIFp) is crucial for worker safety. This presentation emphasizes transitioning from SIF classification to actionable data for effective control measures. By differentiating between Scheduled and Unscheduled SIF exposures, organizations can tailor their safety strategies to address unique challenges. 

Finding the Next Incident: How Employees Insights can Help Prevent the Next Accident: Irene Hamre, VP of HSE & SO, Baker Hughes
Finding the Next incident is a tool for learning from Normal Work, this abstract provide more insights to the paper that was presented a year ago on challenges and implementation guidelines. Making it even more accessible to the wider population to use and adapt today.

12:00 pm Luncheon & Exhibit Viewing Red Oak Ballroom AB

1:15 pm Occupational Health and Safety 

Another Stupid Mistake! A 2-Pronged Approach for Making Routine Work Safer: Sharon Lipinski, CEO, Habit Mastery Consulting
Routine work is challenging because the brain follows old, familiar neural pathways, making it hard to stay alert and be fully present. It also makes learning and adapting more difficult because when there’s a course of least resistance, new information may not fully register. Discover a two-pronged approach to reducing the mistakes people make during routine work. 

Reevaluating Water Safety Training for the Offshore Industry:  Why and How to Tackle Deep Water Fear and Establish Foundational Water Competency: Chidinma Obi Sedenu, Founder, My Freedom From Fear
Explore why and how to make offshore deployment more inclusive for individuals with deep water fear or limited swimming ability. This session introduces a framework to be implemented ahead of mandated water survival training for those who need it. It includes a no-judgment water competency test and a foundational water competence course. Implementation will enhance water safety, fitness for duty, mental health, hiring and retention, and workforce inclusion and diversity.

2:15 Line Workers SIF Panel
Panelists will share their experiences engaging Front-line workers and helping them maintain their focus on the right things.   

• Donovan Randolph, Senior Manager QHSE, Nabors Drilling Technologies
• Michael Lawson, Vice President QHSE & Training, Valaris
• Marcelo Azeredo, Manager Global HSE, Transocean

3:15 pm Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing   

3:45 pm Effective Implementation of HOP Principles
Moderator: Micah Backlund, HSE Director, Helmerich & Payne
Panelists will provide an overview of the strategic implementation of HOP principles.

• Mike Truitt, Director, HSE, Independence Contract Drilling
• Lamberto Nonno, Global HSE Director, Governance and Customer Excellence, Baker Hughes
• Marc Vaillancourt, COO, The Reach Group
• Chris Parker, HSE&C Manager, Wells – GoM/Canada, BP

5:00 pm Welcoming Reception & Exhibit Viewing Red Oak Ballroom AB

7:30 am Registration, Coffee Service & Exhibition Red Oak Ballroom AB

8:20 am Welcome & Introduction Magnolia

• Thad Dunham, Director, Government & Industry Affairs Operations, IADC
• Kristina Mays, Chair, IADC Sustainability Committee; Transocean

8:30 am Culture & Leadership
Session Chair: Ryan Smallwood, Chair, IADC HSET Committee; HSE Manager – Content Development, Patterson-UTI

Cultural Sustainability and the Generational Gap Challenge: Andrew Knight, Vice President, Operations, The REACH Group
Achieving the right organizational culture in this dynamic environment is becoming more challenging in this industry. Downturns, COVID and a prolonged ceassation in consistent employment for workers has meant many have found jobs elsewhere therefore bringing skilled and experienced workers back into O&G is becoming very challenging. As the workforce generational gap has widening and supervisors needing the right skills to engage and lead teams as well as understand how to manage a culture its created a unique challenge that is now impacting on performance. This presentation will outline these challenges, how to navigate them and some strategies that organisations can start applying now to support their workforce. 

Implementing Safe and Efficient Operations through Visible Leadership Globally: Kris Callen, President, The Callen Group
The “Leading Start Safe” initiative involved senior leaders immersing themselves in rig operations to foster a deeper understanding of safety and efficiency. This presentation will explore the program’s implementation and its impact on enhancing operational performance.

9:30 am Coffee Service & Exhibit Viewing

10:00 am HSE Performance Metrics
Session Chair: Mike Truitt, Director, HSE, Independence Contract Drilling 

It’s a Numbers Game After All! – Revolutionizing Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry: Adrian Brown, CEO, Fennex, Dustin Stringer, Director HSE, Noble Corporation
Join us to explore technological advancements in Behavioral-Based Safety, focusing on the powerful secondary use of observation data. Machine learning and AI now extract new value from this data, enabling predictive analytics that identify potential risks and prevent incidents before they happen. Leveraging technology and data in safety observation programs is revolutionizing safety in the oil and gas industry, making it truly a numbers game where everyone wins.

Comprehensive HSE Performance Evaluation, Beyond Recordables to a Unified KPI Approach: Omar Alzahrani, Sr. Business System Analyst, Saudi Aramco
Accurately measuring Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) performance is challenging, especially for multiple drilling rigs. Traditional metrics like TRI-IR or LTI-IR often provide an incomplete assessment. Human behavior is unpredictable, and accidents can occur despite extensive HSE efforts, including workforce education, trend awareness, stop work authority programs, and compliance inspections. Relying solely on traditional metrics can lead to unfair evaluations. A comprehensive approach should include leading and lagging indicators, ensuring a fair comparison. The proposed HSE rig ranking program aims to improve contractor performance and foster a safety culture, incorporating 11 components like high potential incidents and TRI-IR. Monthly scoring identifies weaknesses, fosters competition, and supports targeted HSE campaigns. This underscores the significance of utilizing a comprehensive set of KPIs to accurately evaluate and enhance HSE performance in the drilling industry.

11:00 am Training & Competency

Enhancing Oil and Gas Safety Through Human Factors Infusion into Simulation Training: Joshua Loveland, Learning and Development Manager – Energy, Maersk Training
By establishing a baseline for how Human Factors impact O&G, designing enhanced and immersive simulations that highlight the 6 categories, and continuous improvement mechanisms, the goal is to enhance the overall quality and effectiveness of training programs. By understanding the cognitive, physical, and organizational factors influencing human performance, simulation training can be tailored to address specific challenges.  This integration leads to a more realistic and immersive training experience, improving participants’ situational awareness, decision-making, teamwork, and communication skills.  Additionally, it fosters a deeper understanding of human error mechanisms, enabling trainees to recognize and mitigate potential hazards within their real-life work environment. By prioritizing human factors in simulation training, the oil and gas industry can cultivate a culture of safety and operational excellence, ultimately leading to a reduction in accidents and incidents.

Innovating Well Control: Advancing Driller Influx Detection with Influx Simulations: Kurt Lipton, Operational Safety Advisor, Patterson-UTI
Historically, well control drills and the methods used to initiate them have often been inadequate and unrealistic. This presentation outlines the advantages of leveraging current technology to simulate influx scenarios more accurately, enhancing Drillers’ preparedness and closing the gap between traditional and improved well control drill practices.

12:00 pm Luncheon & Exhibit Viewing 

1:15 pm Keynote Presentation: TBD

1:45 pm Balancing Regulatory Compliance with Effectiveness
Moderator: Thad Dunham, Sr. Director, Government & Industry Affairs Operations, IADC
Panelists will discuss hours to achieve total compliance vs protecting the worker, citations under general duty clause, the OSHA Heat Rule, the message to the government that IADC can serve as a vessel, and disproportionate response to Regulatory vs. Protection Behavior.

• Micah Backlund, HSE Director, Helmerich & Payne
• William Perkison, Assistant Professor, UTHealth Houston
• James Shelton, M.S., Compliance Assistance Specialist, OSHA
• Travis Martin, QHSE Manager, Nabors
  

3:15 pm Adjournment

Unassigned Papers of Note:
Should a scheduled paper become unavailable, one of the unassigned papers will be accepted for presentation. In addition, these presentations will be made available in the conference proceedings, should the author so desire.

Strategy for Implementation of Learning from Normal Work: Aaron Buckleton, Human Performance, Mattias Ottosson, Noble Corporation
This presentation aims to showcase the potential impact of Learning from Normal Work and demonstrate how it can be effectively integrated into daily operations to drive continuous improvement and enhance safety culture. We look forward to sharing our experiences and engaging in discussions with industry peers on this important topic.

The Magic of Learning Teams in Operations: Andrew Knight, Vice President, Operations, The REACH Group
Several case studies where the implementation of Learning Teams has led to significant improvements in operational outcomes. By engaging a team in forward-thinking discussions and encouraging a culture of continuous learning, organizations can better adapt towards eliminating Error Traps and better understanding Human Error. It also provides an understanding of Human Error and the Performance Shaping Factors that influence it, leading to a better understanding of the worker’s cognitive reasoning skills and problem-solving during a task.

A New Methodology Combines Digital Twins and Remote Learning to Improve Personnel Engagement on Site Induction Training, Speeding Up the Well Site Access Process, and Optimizing Rig Time Costs: Domenico Demma, Operation Safety Coordinator, TotalEnergies EP Italia spa
A new methodology combining digital twins and remote learning to improve personnel engagement on site induction training and to speed up well site access process in the Oil & Gas industry. We have designed and realized several well pad areas digital twins of existing Company O&G land rig sites located in Basilicata (Italy) to be used for safety induction and training of personnel and visitors prior to their access to site. The induction process attended via the web-based immersive training simulator allows trainees to virtually walk-through a 3D reproduction of the Drilling & Workover sites. This builds confidence with a realistic scenario of the well pad area and the equipment used, as well as a complete understanding of the mechanisms involved, of the alarm procedures in case of emergency and of all related risks.