Informing the Future of Process Safety Leadership in the Energy Industry
Our team of data scientists and process safety specialists partnered with member-led organisation, Step Change in Safety (SCiS) to gather and analyse opinions on process safety leadership from senior leaders and executives across the UK’s offshore energy industry.
The Goals:
Uncovering the vital intelligence that leads to real change
To apply our industry experience and knowledge of process safety theory to design a survey which industry process safety leaders would engage with.
To deploy our data science capabilities in AI and machine learning to analyse the data recovered to deliver accurate insights and actionable solutions.
The Empirisys Solution:
Data driven; people-led
- Carefully curated questions to provide richer insights.
- Close collaboration with the client to provide an end-to-end service, incorporating which included designing and creating the survey, problem solving, analysis and reporting on results.
- The use of natural language processing (NLP) allowed a large volume of data to be processed efficiently.
Key Results:
The Challenge:
Engaging with leaders
Previous SCiS surveys struggled to engage their membership, diminishing their industry validity. To combat this, they drew on our technical expertise to design and structure the survey, before analysing the results from the (fortunately) large volumes of data.
The Process:
From research to results.
Following research into SCiS’s objectives, we developed and refined a set of questions based on process safety theory, industry expertise and psychological survey design.
The survey was shared with process safety leaders in over 50 large high-hazard organisations with the provision of bespoke dashboards for participating organisations.
Empirisys finalised the process by publishing a report which summarised the findings, aligned to Step Change in Safety’s original research objectives.
The Result:
Insights yielding improvements
The survey was completed by over 450 Senior Leaders in 73 organisations, and the findings were widely disseminated.
The results continue to be referred to by individual organisations during their HSE safety audits. The findings are also enabling SCiS to develop programmes to close knowledge gaps.
The following quotes were taken from survey respondents:
“The output from the survey informed our change plan for 2024.”
“This survey was more insightful than our internal ones.”
“We have to find a way to implement these findings.”
The Future:
Maintaining momentum
SCiS intend to continue partnering with us to develop a similar survey aimed at the wider offshore workforce, and so develop a more rounded picture of process safety offshore.
Armed with the metadata and demographic data from the survey, we are well positioned to optimise future surveys for clients and design even better experiences.
What sets Empirisys apart?
