Speakers: Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director. Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP This last episode connects safety and operational excellence and examines the common performance levers between the two. Xavier Bontemps discusses how safety leadership and operational excellence work naturally together based on his personal experiences.  In 2012, Xavier was recruited as the Manufacturing and Projects Director of a new refining and chemicals branch of a large energy company. Refining was merging with petrochemicals under one unique organisation. One of his founding acts was defining common governance and the meaning of operational excellence. Xavier takes us through this policy and definition of operational excellence based on four fundamental principles: management commitment, governance, management of contractors and individual commitment of all staff.  He concludes that safety performance is strengthened when executed in parallel with the management of operational excellence. They are naturally bound together and require strong leadership that can continuously link both together, leaves skin in the game when the going gets rough, hammers strong stakes in the ground and solicits and honours contractor insights.  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Speakers: Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director. Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP With the acceleration of renewable energy development around the world, Xavier Bontemps draws on his own personal experiences to raise a number of safety challenges that lie ahead for this new and ever evolving industry. These include workplace safety, process safety and environmental and societal acceptability. He then outlines some of the possible solutions.   Xavier observes that the traditional approach to safety leadership still applies to renewables and includes felt leadership, performance monitoring, HSE competencies, investigation analysis, recognition and sanctions and communication.  Caring for community, people and their surrounding nature is becoming the new license to operate. This goes beyond local legislation and encompasses all stakeholder relations especially with new build projects. Companies are improving their environmental and societal approaches to HSE with talent which is more diverse, more externally focused and more tapped in to NGOs and biodiversity associations. The challenge is to raise this awareness within their companies as part of a new HSE culture. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Speakers: Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director. Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP Safety leadership helps companies navigate through re-organisations, catastrophes, pandemics, major investments, mergers and acquisitions and so on. But sustainable safety performance can only be obtained when management practices a number of performance levers and establishes a strong safety culture. According to Xavier Bontemps, there are a key number of competencies HSE professionals need to demonstrate early on in their careers and safety leadership training programmes are an essential element in building a safety culture and developing a coherent community of strong practices.  He discusses how the success of such training programmes requires a number of key factors. These include a training programme structured with various phases that correspond to a final strategy, deployed through workshops with practical tools and motivational language. Safety leadership training programmes should also be highly visible, rely on contribution from senior leaders and build a pool of passionate HSE managers that grow their soft skills of mirroring and coaching.  Xavier discusses how a sustainable safety culture can emerge from this type of training and offers some practical tips for every individual and safety leader in a company to collectively embed a safety culture. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Speakers: Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director. Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP Organisations can get comfortable with risks, shortcuts become acceptable and complacency settles in as companies grow - all of which can lead to organisational blindness when it comes to safety. Xavier Bontemps illustrates how organisations can go blind on safety with three lived experiences of tragic disasters in the oil and gas sector: the BP upstream gulf of Mexico blow out and pollution, the BP midstream Texas City refinery explosion and the downstream Total Joint Venture UK depot explosion and fire. He explores the common root causes of these tragedies and discusses practical ways of increasing risk awareness, developing safety competency and detecting short cuts – all which can be described as safety blindness.  For Xavier, the initial prevention of safety blindness, the ability to stay alert, the avoidance of complacency and the capability of zooming in and out continuously on operations need certain best practices reinforced by strong safety leadership. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Speakers: Xavier Bontemps, international HSE leader with over 35 years’ energy industry leadership experience gained from senior roles at BP, Ineos and Total – and most recently as TotalEnergies’ Corporate HSE Director. Kate Chauviré, Director, Academic Planning and Coordination, CEDEP With over 35 years’ leadership experience working for global energy companies, Xavier Bontemps discusses how safety has been such a common thread throughout his career, shares how he started his zero journey and outlines the crucial steps involved to achieve a zero cultural mindset based on real life – and sometimes tragic – personal experiences.  For Xavier, aspiring to zero workplace accidents is in vain if leaders do not believe it is possible. A belief in zero workplace accidents is a declaration or statement that appears to be true, that does not require proof, but translates as confidence and trust. And if shared as a collective mindset, this belief becomes the basis of safety as a core value, giving an organisation a conviction. The safety journey to zero starts when leaders put their own skin in the game and refuse the possibility of a fatality. Leadership of safety performance is therefore mandatory including leadership in operational excellence, in setting standards, in competencies, in managing contractors and in transparency. Trust and confidence therefore grow in an organisation with the belief that accidents can be anticipated and hinges as much on leadership practices as on safety practices.  Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.