Eliminating serious incidents, which includes both - personnel and process safety, remains the most important priority for E&P-industry. This requires a safety culture with an appreciation of a near miss reporting by everyone at each level of an organization.

In Germany ExxonMobil has implemented the Safety Coach Concept, a safety program that helps to engage employees and contractors on peer-to-peer level to share near misses and to learn from those with a higher potential.

To achieve these objectives more than 600 employees and contractors have been trained in small groups of eight to twelve people with a specific focus on hazard and risk identification, effective communication and awareness of personality types. One key objective is actively caring. Each employee - no matter to which company he or she belongs - has the obligation to raise concerns, intervene and stop work, if she or he feels that something is not safe. In this context it is important to provide positive and remedial feedback on near miss reporting and reward good sharing.

In addition company's safety representatives have become safety coaches with dedicated time to observe on a peer-to-peer level within the workgroups on a weekly basis. One of the key advantages is the creation of an environment of trust.

This paper describes the Safety Coach Concept and first results of the near miss reporting and personal accountability in Germany since 2014. It gives an overview about important tools to identify and understand hazards and risks, the so-called Life-Saving-Actions and Risk Tolerance Factors.

This paper gives an outlook on the next evolution of the concept with Process Safety Coaches. It is necessary to create an understanding of barrier health and effectiveness. An important tool is to define these barriers in an asset-specific register for major hazards. Another one is the development of key Process Safety Actions analog to Life-Saving-Actions.

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