North Drilling attaches great importance to protecting the health of its staff who are the main assets of the company. Therefore, by upgrading HSE methods and principles and providing education services, it tries to curb accidents and damage to human resources, equipment and the environment as much as possible.
In this regard, the North Drilling HSE Department applying the following tools and methods for identifying, eliminating or curbing safety hazards on an acceptable scale:

like SOLAS, MARPLE and related codes and conventions like MODU-Code, FSS-Code, FTP-Code, LSA-Code, ISM-Code and ISPS-Code for activities. As far as helideck is concerned, ICAO and national regulations have to be respected. All national standards and instructions and regional conventions on the environment as well as rules and regulations set by National Iranian Oil Company and Ministry of Petroleum must be complied with in all activities.

Enhancement of the level of safety culture within the company and all across the organization will give a boost to safety measures. A positive safety culture provides an atmosphere in which issues related to safety are of significance and priority.

Plans for Better Safety Culture

In order to have a correct understanding of the culture of safety in an organization or company, the following issues are taken into consideration:

This method of pathology can show to what extent the values, interpretations and understanding of the safety culture have stimulated and motivated people and to what extent people are effective. Some of helpful tools used in this process of pathology are outlined later.

In addition to understanding and knowing the current culture, it is necessary to have an image of ideal culture. The leading elements of the company (managers and heads) must develop a steering approach with regard to the safety culture. Here are examples of plans the HSE Department is implementing in order to promote the culture of safety on onshore and offshore drilling equipment: