2023 Volume 88 Issue 5 Pages 402-407
Our company, INPEX CORPORATION, has operated oil and gas development worldwide for more than 50 years. Since the introduction of HSE Management System in 2006, we have developed our safety culture for our international operations. However, through the internal review of our safety performance, we identified some challenging areas for improvement. To identify necessary actions for raising our safety performance, we decided to evaluate the level of safety culture for our entire company, and each operation worldwide.
We adopted a safety culture assessment tool based on a technique developed in Japan. This tool has been utilized at over 250 locations in and outside Japan with total of more than 80000 people over a period of 10 years, which has proven to be beneficial for the identification of strengths and weaknesses of each organization.
We prepared the online questionnaire with 110 questions in Japanese and English. The survey was open from October 2020 to January 2021, during which we collected 2441 responses from 10 countries including Japan, Australia and Indonesia. We then analyzed the responses together with the university.
We started a series of analyses from the results of the principal component analysis provided from the university, then conducted a series of analysis by safety culture related keywords, as well as the analysis of the response to individual questions related to some items which we considered to be important for improving our safety culture. This analysis helped us find strength and weakness of the whole company, as well as those of each location, so we could identify the area to be focused for the improvement.
This survey was our first attempt within our company to measure the safety culture for the large population of our organizations worldwide, which turned out to be beneficial for identifying actions for the continual improvement.
