Process Safety Management (PSM) in Terengganu Oil and Gas Production Platforms

Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Engineering - Safety Engineering, grade: 3.76, Open University Malaysia, course: MASTER IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH RISK MANAGEMENT, language: English, abstract: Piper Alpha platform explosion incident in 1988 has created tremendous improvement in work practices and safety culture in oil and gas (O&G) sector by implementation of process safety management in production platform. Distinguishing Process Safety Management (PSM) effectiveness to different workgroup of production platform in Terengganu Offshore is the main purpose of this research. Survey questionnaire been distributed among 150 respondents of O&G platform workers out of 265 identified data population using online form developed using Typeform and the link been forwarded to respondents via email and social media.

The position of respondents sorted into three major workgroup named as management, non-technical and technical in the same proportion from six selected platforms consist of oil type production and gas production main platforms. Quantitative research method been used and descriptive analysis is useful to determined various results of cross tabulation data. Eleven factors that been identified as influence of differentiation on understanding and compliance of PSM obtained using one-way ANOVA and ranked base on highest P-Value and percentage of R2 . Overall, non-technical workgroup has lowest rate in mean in most of comparison survey score and in cross tabulated. Suggestion for improvement been discussed to promote equality in understanding and compliance between various workgroups toward PSM.