This effort provides sponsors with a transformational tool based on a need identified in a 2011 IADC paper “Creating a Company’s Environmental Culture to Improve Performance in the Energy Industry,” by Thomas E. Williams, Rich Haut; HARC, David Burnett; Texas A&M, GPRI, Greg Anderson; Moody International, and Gene Theodori; Sam Houston State.

Over the past two decades safety has become a core value within most sectors of the oil and gas industry. With increased understanding that, in many cases, safety and the environment go hand in hand, environmental training courses are now being developed just as safety programs were in the past. Moreover, environmental performance awards now are being given as industry seeks new ways to encourage better protection of the environment. However, “Environmental Culture” is not where it should be in most companies. The reasons vary, but perhaps the two biggest obstacles are: (1) the lack of understanding of what environmental culture means or should look like, and (2) senior management of many companies have not bought into, or do not recognize the critical role they play in creating such a culture.

Environmental 24/7 will be the sequel to Safety 24/7—Building an Incident-Free Culture, which is a fictional story of a manager in an organization plagued with injuries and fatalities who is given 120 days to create a culture of safety.

Environmental 24/7 takes the fictional story to the next level by demonstrating many of the principles used to successfully change people’s behavior toward safety are key to developing a culture of environmental responsibility and accountability. The target audience includes:

• Executive Teams responsible for building a strong culture of environmental awareness throughout their organization. This book will assist leaders in recognizing that environmental awareness will only become a core value when they move it from their heads to their hearts.
• Supervisory personnel whose success depends on their ability to create teams that are motivated to minimize environmental tradeoffs associated with their work.
• Everyone who wants to understand how behavior impacts the environment and, more importantly, wants specific tools to reduce the likelihood of becoming involved in an environmental incident.