A World of Opportunities

Allen Smith DROPS

From his travels in support of DROPS, Allen gives an insight on his learnings and the opportunities we have to improve. Through DROPS, members have access to Training, Site Visits and Specific Awareness, Management System Gap Analysis, System Development and, above all, the opportunity to share best practice and lessons learned. He commonly finds an over-reliance on third party services, poor understanding of causal factors and hazard identification and misinterpretation of terms and definitions – all issues that we have the opportunity and knowledge to address. He explores each of these areas providing examples of relevant shared learnings. Allen concludes with a brief update on the North American Chapter’s remit and Focus Group updates for Reliable Securing (Revision 4) and DORIS – our statistical database.