Interview and Survey:
Interview and Survey: High Pressure Lines
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL
Please answer the following questions to be best of your knowledge pertinent to your role as supervisor or manager of XYZ Company. Rest assured that the responses would be solely used for the research study on high pressure lines in the oil industry and would be treated with utmost confidentiality.
1. Commitment Level of Management
1.1 What safety and health policies and strategies have been designed by management to minimize injuries, illnesses, or fatalities in the work settings, especially those pertaining to high pressure lines? ________________________________________________________________
1.2 How often do you monitor high pressure lines to ensure that these are within safety standards as proposed by the OSHA? _______________________________________________________
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1.3 What monitoring techniques are being implemented to monitor high pressure lines? Please explain in detail. ________________________________________________________________
1.4 How do you detect that there is need to revise or update the safety and health policies of your work setting pertinent to incidents associated with high pressure lines? _____________________
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2. Current Safety and Health Policies Pertinent to High Pressure Lines
2.1 What measurements, standards, and mitigation techniques do you institute to prevent accidents, injuries and fatalities which could potentially ensue due to fire and explosions associated with high-pressure lines your specific work setting? ___________________________
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2.2 How could you improve these measures, standards, and mitigation techniques to ultimately prevent accidents, injuries and fatalities pertinent to high pressure lines? ___________________
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2.3 What kinds of control measures (administrative, engineering, and managerial) do you implement which prevented accidents, injuries, and fatalities pertinent to high pressure lines? _____________________________________________________________________________
2.4 What incidents in the past (or incidents from other oil companies) assisted in revising health policies or safety procedures and assisted in preventing accidents, injuries, and fatalities pertinent to high pressure lines? ___________________________________________________________
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2.5 What do you consider are best practices in ensuring safety in the work setting pertinent to addressing high pressure lines concerns? ____________________________________________
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2.6 What are the current behaviors of employees in terms of adherence to safety policies and procedures pertinent to high pressure lines? __________________________________________
3. Awareness of Workers
3.1 From your perspectives, what measures does the company institute to ensure that workers are duly aware of OSHA standards on fire and explosions, specifically associated with high-pressure lines? ________________________________________________________________________
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3.3 How frequent to you conduct safety and health awareness programs to apprise current and new employees on OSHA’s standards and revised company policies pertinent to high pressure lines? ________________________________________________________________________
4. Effectiveness of Safety Policies and Standards
4.1 How do you rate the effectiveness of your company’s health and safety standards pertinent to high pressure lines? _____________________________________________________________
4.2 How can these standards and control measures be improved? _________________________
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4.3 How often do OSHA safety inspectors conduct visual inspection of your work setting and review policies and standards pertinent to high pressure lines? ___________________________
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4.4 When was the last visit from OSHA safety inspectors and what were the findings or recommendations pertinent to safety standards and policies relative to high pressure lines? ____
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4.5 As supervisor or manager, what would you suggest or recommend to OSHA inspectors or to higher management in terms of policies, procedures, standards, and control measures pertinent to high pressure lines? _____________________________________________________________
SURVEY QUESTIONAIRE FOR EMPLOYEES WORKING IN AREAS CONTAINING HIGH PRESSURE LINES
Please answer the questions as employees working in roles and responsibilities requiring the inspection, maintenance, and repair of machineries and equipment considered as high pressure lines. Rest assured that responses would be treated with utmost confidentiality.
Respondent’s Profile
Length of service with the company: ____ months _____ years Position: __________________
Basic Responsibility: [ ] Inspection [ ] Repair [ ] Maintenance [ ] Other (please specify): ______________________________________________
5. Factors that Lead to Accidents in High Pressure Line Areas
What factors lead to accidents, injuries, and fatalities in high pressure line areas (please check factors according to your personal experience):
[ ] lack of maintenance of equipment
[ ] lack of warning signs or control measures
[ ] lack of awareness on safety policies and standards
[ ] lack of monitoring by supervisors, managers, or OSHA inspectors
[ ] others, please specify: _________________________________________________
6. Frequency of OSHA inspection
How frequent does OSHA safety inspectors visit your area to inspect high pressure lines?
[ ] once a year [ ] twice a year [ ] once every two years [ ] never visited
7. Rate of Accident, Injury or Fatality
When was the last accident, injury, or fatality that occurred due to pressure lines safety concerns? [ ] last month [ ] last 6 months [ ] within the year [ ] more than 1 year
8. Rank the factors that management should institute to improve safety standards pertinent to high pressure lines according to importance: 1 as most important and 3 as least important
[ ] regularly update safety policies [ ] train and orient personnel [ ] intensify controls
Thank you very much.
