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Safety at Goober Drilling

When you hire a  Goober Drilling LLC’s facility, you immediately access the collective experience and innovation of one of the mid continent oil and gas industry’s top performers. For 15 years Goober Drilling has diligently studied the essential philosophies, skills and systems necessary for best in class safety performance on all drilling facilities. Our Management and employees prove time and again that the combined power of superior safe execution, guided by professional strong Top management, produces pace-setting results.

For 3 decades Goober Drilling LLC has worked hard to instill the best beliefs, values and thought processes to produce an excellent systematic safe approach to our oil and gas drilling operations. What separates Goober Drilling LLC from the rest of the pack is not simply what they do, it is how we think.  At Goober Drilling LLC we believe:

Beliefs

  • All accidents are preventable.
  • All Goober Drilling LLC   personnel represent our greatest asset. When you invest in their performance, you are investing in greatly reduced operating costs and enhancing profitability.
  • A proactive value-driven approach to safety management will produce a lasting safety culture.
  • Safety Excellence requires the values, systems and skills which ensure safety becomes an equal and integral part of every job, every decision and every task, this safety excellence is far more than meeting statistical targets.
  • Effective safety management will have a positive effect on all other areas of operations.
  • Safety accountability must be based upon the quality execution of assigned duties and responsibilities and not simply statistical results.
  • Successful safety systems must be managed by the line organization, not the safety department, safety specialists or safety committees.
  • Leadership has both the right obligation to create a culture where errors are eliminated, systems are improved and adequate resources are provided to ensure a safe work environment.

 

Goober Drilling LLC is committed to providing our employees, clients, and associates with the knowledge, expertise and services they need to achieve ultimate safety performances. Goober Drilling LLC’s safety department has developed a strategic approach which ensures long-term value and success, and transforms the organizations' entire culture.

Goober Drilling LLC’s Safety program Provides:

  • A large variety of Safety Management Services tailored to meet your specific needs.
  • Objective Job Safety Analysis of existing systems and Operations.
  • Proven processes activities and tools to address areas of need.
  • Comprehensive safety processes which provide a platform for success.
  • Safety Specialists on staff for implementation and execution of these systems.
  • Superior training and coaching to ensure the skills, philosophies and practices of Goober Management and safety leadership excellence are learned and applied throughout all Goober Drilling Departments and Operations.
  • Valuable technology and applications which provides reliable data for trend analysis, and audit systems to plan improvements.


When you hire Goober Drilling LLC you realize benefits not often seen from other competitors’ approaches to safety management. Goober Drilling LLC's integrated and comprehensive Goober Safety Setup (GSS) systems provide a strategic standardized platform to manage safety along with all other critical business processes.   Goober Drilling LLC Services’ are renowned for state of the art facilities and strong execution of safety systems, activities and practices which ensure an accident-free work environment. Once the GSS Standardized safety system is learned, these skills can be easily applied to other aspects of business to produce a Goober culture of excellence.

By using the Goober Safety Setup (GSS) standardized system, our employees, clients, and associates gain benefits in:

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

by applying the systems and tools of our GSS process to all aspects of operations, Goober Drilling LLC employees, clients, and associates see improvement in:

  • Oil and Gas Standard operating procedures
  • Lean Production
  • Utilization/Reliability
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Supply chain management
  • Efficiency
  • Labor relations
  • Leadership

Goober Drilling LLC has customized its safety tools and activities to develop top managements vision into desired skill sets in order to ensure that all personnel improve performance in:

IMPROVED SKILLS

  • Awareness
  • Hazard recognition
  • Guardianship
  • Coaching
  • Investigation
  • Root cause analysis
  • Analytical problem solving
  • Job Safety Planning
  • Training
  • Intervention / Enforcement
  • Observation
  • Decision making
  • Task Discipline

 

ACCOUNTABILITY

The Goober Safety Setup (GSS) improvement initiatives sets forth defined responsibilities for every level of the organization. Each position, supervisor and crew becomes fully aware of the specific actions they must execute to achieve and maintain safety excellence on their facility.

OWNERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT

All employees, clients, and associates are introduced and trained on the Goober Safety Setup  (GSS) systems importance and relevance specific to their assigned safety responsibilities. By focusing on the benefits a safe work environment provides to the organization, the individual and fellow employees, Goober management is able to ensure the improvement effort is willingly and enthusiastically embraced.

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

THE GSS comprehensive safety process provides a structured platform that can be used to define and improve all other management functions such as preventive maintenance. Through utilizing the GSS Safety System employees, clients, and associates become more familiar with a systems-based approach to management which improves organization and communication. The GSS process also provides everyone with the ability to define all aspects of the safety program enabling a more proactive response to hazard recognition.

 

ABOVE: A SAFETY TOOL BOX MEETING IS HELD DURING A RIG MOVE

CULTURE

The goal of the GSS like any viable safety effort is to improve Goober Drilling LLC’s organizational culture. By focusing on Goober’s upper management vision, culture reasoning, values and belief structure, the GSS helps every employee, client, and associate to develop and maintain an environment that prizes safety excellence and recognizes the natural value of each every person.

The GSS Safety System has one common goal - an injury-free work place. With daily safety hazard recognition combined with effective teamwork and problem solving Goober Drilling LLC continues to improve existing safety systems to create an injury free, and efficient work environment while maintaining a very professional and productive work force. 

Goober Drilling LLC’s Safety Program continuously improves and sees a steady decrease and reduction in incident frequency rates every year. In 2007 Goober Drilling saw a