Description
With the commodity price of oil on the rise and the oil and gas industry rebounding, many hope that the upturn will only have a positive effect on EHS. Despite thousands of job losses and cost-cutting worldwide in recent years, the oil and gas industry remains the biggest spender on EHS. Our research shows that nearly one-third of consulted companies are increasing their EHS budgets for 2019, and more than 70% of companies are planning to hire to increase their EHS headcounts – by an average of nearly 12%.
EHS professionals will be instrumental in this era of fast change. New EHS software platforms and equipment upgrades will drive a great deal of this change, workforces will be streamlined, and new processes will be required. But, EHS executives will still be arguing the case of EHS investment to their boards. EHS functions are fine-tuning resource allocation and skill sets to achieve key objectives, including:
- Striving for “zero harm” levels of performance
- Increasing emphasis on personal and process safety programs
- Driving better risk management practices
- Shifting the focus from functional activities to improving the interface between EHS and front-line employees
Energy Decisions Group developed this report to examine and compare the budgets and spending practices, staffing levels, organizational structure composition, reporting relationships, and projections for future changes in budgets, staffing and structure of a broad spectrum of oil and gas companies’ environment, health and safety departments. This report examines numerous related issues, such as annual budget data, including budget breakdowns into major spending categories; department staffing metrics and staffing breakdowns by seniority level; and staffing benchmarks to enable comparative analyses by company size and other factors.
Data and Insights Included in This Report
- Environmental, health and safety (EHS, HSE) department budgets
- EHS budget outsourcing data
- Projections for changes to EHS budgets in the coming years, including factors driving those changes
- EHS staffing headcounts (internal employees and contract workers) broken down by seniority level
- Trends and analysis of companies’ future plans for staffing in the next few years, including factors driving changes to EHS headcounts
- Analysis of EHS organizational structures (stand-alone departments vs. multi-functional departments which include other functions, such as security, regulatory, etc.)
- Comparisons of centralized, decentralized and matrix organizational structures
- Reporting relationships to executive management
- Plans for re-structuring EHS functions in the next few years
Why Buy This Report
- Benchmark EHS budgets and spending practices at other oil & gas companies around the globe, including those based in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States
- Compare your department’s staffing resources to those of other companies
- Right-size your department’s staffing levels
- Make the case to management for additional budget and staffing resources
- Understand how organizational structure supports or hinders business performance
- Inform decisions about departmental organization and reorganization
Report Contents:
Executive Summary
Summarizes the key findings of our research and develops implications and recommendations
Analysis of Companies Analyzed and Executives Consulted in This Study
Provides summary information and insights about the companies that we examine in this report and the executives who contributed to this research.
Health, Safety and Environment Budget Allocations and Analysis
Includes analysis of HSE budgets, outsourcing, projections for future spending changes, and related trends at benchmarked companies.
Health, Safety and Environment Organizational Structure Insights and Analysis
Delves into the details of companies’ health, safety and environment department organizational structures, including analysis of centralized, decentralized and matrix approaches and the advantages/disadvantages of each; assessments of reporting relationships; and companies’ plans for organizational restructuring in the next few years.
Health, Safety and Environment Staffing Levels and Analysis
Includes detailed examinations of health, safety and environment staffing levels, including breakdowns of headcounts (as measured in full-time equivalents, or FTEs) at various seniority levels, as well as break-downs of internal company employees versus contracted staffers. Includes analysis of the reporting relationships at the senior-most levels, including the titles and roles of the top executives that oversee HSE functions and the executives to whom they report, and includes executives’ insights and recommendations on these top-line reporting relationships.
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