Oilfield Safety: Safety Orientation - Drilling and Oilfield Employees

This training provides industry and regulatory safety instruction to keep new and existing oilfield employees safe while on the job. Industry-specific curriculum, combined with on-the-job instruction and assessment, provides a solid foundation to obtain a safer work environment. All scenarios and instruction have been captured with actual oilfield workers on working drilling and production job sites.

Anyone working oilfield drilling and production job sites.

• Introduction - Company Policies
  • Company policies
  • Work schedule
• Company Safe Work Practices & Policies
  • Emergency policies
  • Good housekeeping
  • First aid
• Introduction to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Hardhats
  • Eye protection
  • Foot protection
  • Hand protection
  • Jewelry
  • Hearing protection
• Specialized Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Respirators
  • SCBA
  • Protective creams
• Hazard Awareness - How to Keep your Body Parts!
  • Pinch points
  • Uneven work surfaces
• Hazard Awareness - Safe Work Policies
  • Lifting a heavy objects
  • Air hoists
  • fall protection
  • Lockout / Tagout
  • Heat Exhaustion/Stroke
  • Hypothermia
• Hazardous Materials - Communication and Drills
  • HAZCOM
  • MSDS
  • Hot work
• Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
  • Accident prevention

• Understand your company's policies.
  • Restate the purpose of a drilling rig.
  • Recognize not to bring or use illegal drugs on the rig.
• Recognize all potential fire or explosive hazards when working on a rig.
  • Memorize your duties and responsibilities during an emergency.
  • Know the merits of practicing good hygiene.
  • Identify potential fire and explosive hazards.
• Recognize all PPE requirements.
  • Explain why you must always wear a hardhat while working on the rig.
  • Explain why you must always wear eye protection while working.
  • Explain why you must wear steel-toe boots.
  • Describe work gloves and explain how they protect your hands.
  • Explain hearing protection and when its required.
  • Describe PPE requirements, and explain why you must wear FRC.
  • Understand why to avoid loose clothing, long hair, wearing jewelry.
• Understand use of specialized PPE.
  • Describe respirators and know when and how to use them.
  • Describe SCBA and explain what it is for and when to use it.
  • Explain special protective skin creams.
  • Explain why it is necessary to wear aprons, rubber gloves, etc.
  • Explain when it is necessary to wear special face protection.
• Recognize potential hazards.
  • Define hand injuries and tell how to prevent them.
  • Recognize and describe pinch points.
  • Explain the hazard of falling objects.
  • Recognize and describe the effect of uneven work surfaces on safety.
  • Recognize slippery surfaces and tell how to prevent falls.
  • Describe why it is necessary to use handrails.
• Recognize all safe work policies.
  • Describe proper manual lifting techniques.
  • Explain safety considerations when working above the rig floor
  • Describe a man-riding air hoist and explain main safety precautions.
  • Define a permit-required confined space.
  • Explain lock-out tag-out procedures.
  • Explain what heat stress and heat stroke are and how to avoid them.
  • Define exposure, describe cold-weather gear, and define hypothermia.
• Memorize how to work with hazardous material.
  • Explain what a hazardous material is.
  • Describe an MSDS and where to find it.
  • Explain why it is necessary to obtain a hot-work permit.
  • Define a fire watch and explain the duties of a fire watcher.
• Explain what JSAa are.
  • Define job safety analysis.
  • Explain why JSAs are used.
  • Tell what a pre-job safety meeting is.
  • Explain why pre-job safety meetings help reduce accidents.