You asked for it, we delivered! After hundreds of you downloaded our free pandemic preparedness program for ISN, we figured weâd throw in another custom program covering the increasingly common driving safety requirement.
Fill out the form below to get a free driver safety program emailed to you â fully customized with your companyâs information & compatible with ISNâs 2020 requirements.
The document should arrive within 5 minutes & will be sent to you in both a .PDF and .DOCX format so that you can make additional changes if desired.
Itâs freebie time! No strings attached.
Fill out the form below to get a free pandemic preparedness program emailed to youâfully customized with your companyâs information & compatible with ISNâs 2020 requirements.
The document should arrive within 5 minutes & will be sent to you in both a .PDF and .DOCX format so that you can make additional changes if desired.
If the form below doesnât show up in your browser below, click here. And if you have any issues getting the program to properly deliver in your inbox, donât hesitate to send us an email at hello@cookcompliance.co.
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Dear clients,
Itâs been a challenging couple of weeks.
In a one-two punch, COVID-19 & the Saudi-Russian price war have delivered a stinging blow to our industry, leaving many of us winded. The ink on our annual budgets has barely dried, but suddenly those ambitious 2020 drilling schedules are starting to look naively optimistic. Service providers are getting ready for a crunch. And their employees â who just last month had their pick of any âhelp wantedâ sign in town â are starting to wonder whether theyâll still have jobs by this time next week.
I donât know whatâs comingâŚ
Hindsight is 20/20. Thatâs what one of my clients learned a few years back after a nasty vehicle accident shattered her employeeâs ankle.
The accident itself was no joke, but at least the math added up: North Dakota blizzard + driver = crash. What she didnât understand was why their companyâs LWD (Lost Work Day rate) had gone from zero to 60âliterallyâby summer.
âWe did everything right,â she groaned over the phone when she realized her company was now considered high-risk. âThirty years without an incident, then one guy gets hurt. And we took great care of him. âŚ
On my first day working in oilfield safety, I learned a new word. The gentleman training me let it slip while showing me his filing systems: âWe put every insurance certificate in this folder,â he said, âjust for a little extra CYA.â
CYA? I googled it, not wanting to look inexperienced. Itâs not often that you hear someone blatantly admit that oilfield compliance is a âcover your assâ sport, but the comment perfectly foreshadowed the job I had ahead of me. I was there to protect oil producers from liability.
See also: Alphabet soup: Decoding safety jargon
Your ISN & PEC status had been middling for a year, & compliance professionals told you it was because of something called an EMR. EMRs can only improve with time, they explained, so there was nothing you could do but wait & continue to keep your employees safe on the job. But when your insurance company sent over this yearâs new EMR certificate â & you hoped this would finally give your company the boost it needed to get back up to a preferred status with clients â you found out your latestâŚ
After working in oilfield safety for a few years & noticing the absurd number of acronyms we were expected to commit to memory, I decided to start jotting them down as I came across them just to see how quickly theyâd stack up. Within 3 daysâ& mind you, I wasnât going out of my way to do thisâIâd collected almost 200.
Holy cow, right? Safety consultants practically have to be bilingual. But since Google Translate doesnât yet recognize oil & gas as a legitimate dialect, itâs easy to get stuck chin in hand every time someone throws us an initialismâŚ
See also: So you need help with OSHA forms? The ABCs of reporting
Donât overcomplicate this. I know youâre frustrated by the rejection of your OSHA paperwork, but take a deep breath & grab some coffeeâwe can troubleshoot.
In our last post, we talked about which OSHA form(s) your company needs, how to decode the lingo, & what to do when youâre done. Now, letâs talk about why your contractor management system (ISN, PEC, etc.) might have rejected your form.
Weâve all made this mistake: We get used to signing documents with the last yearâs date, & thereâs a bitâŚ
See also: Why was my OSHA form rejected by ISN/PEC?
Riding high on Christmas spirit & New Years determination, itâs probably only after January 10th or so that youâll remember that thereâs another annual tradition coming: the scramble to complete your companyâs OSHA forms.
You groan. Another document to sign, another bunch of boxes to check. And since this one is a direct requirement of the federal government, kicking it over to your admin assistant might not be the best idea.
Luckily, theyâre not that complicated. OSHA reporting comes down to:
Almaâs job is to make compliance not suck. Her firm, Cook Compliance Solutions, serves oil & gas contractors across the country.