Petroleum Drilling Safety    


Credit: 1 hour

  Safe operating practices and procedures are vital in the drilling business because the work is hazardous, involving massive machinery, heavy tools and great physical strength.
When accidents do occur, the work can be a serious peril to life and limb.  Drilling personnel must know how to work safely on a rig in order to protect themselves, costly rig equipment, and the expensive hole being drilled.
 
More than 90 % of all accidents are avoidable, being caused by human error rather than by mechanical failure.
It is extremely important that every person on a drilling rig develop a sense of safety in drilling operations.
 

Field of Study: Petroleum
Level: Basic
Presenter:
Ronald Finger
Prerequisites: 
None