The safety challenges of the 21st century require an integrative approach that brings fresh thinking and sound practices from across industries and among areas of safety specialization. Lessons from the personal and process safety approaches have revealed the strengths and weaknesses of each, but little has been done to bring them together. The current challenge is to create a safety approach that engages both process and personal safety and get better indictors for both process and personnel safety, especially in relation to oil well drilling sector
Occupational safety performance is often measured with frequency rates and severity rates of incidents based on personal injury such as lost-time injury frequency rate (LTIFR), (RWCFR), (MTOs) which appear a weak connection to major accident prevention. Numbers focus on consequences of incidents rather than causes, in addition it may be difficult for employees and their managers to see the connections between the effort they expand on safety and what is measured.