Estevan 鈥� Roughly 190 service rig personnel and wellsite supervisors who work for Crescent Point attended the third annual Independent Well Servicing Safety Stand down at the Estevan campus of 小蓝视频east College on Jan. 10.
Brian Crossman of Independent Well Servicing said, 鈥淭his is an event we鈥檝e become very passionate about, as safety is the most important part of what we do every day. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than arriving home safe, physically and mentally intact, to our loved ones.
鈥淵ou are the reason we make this investment into safety, and a commitment to your health and well小蓝视频.鈥�
Curtis Swain, completions team lead with Crescent Point, said the company had up to 38 service rigs working for them at the time. Swain said, 鈥�2017 was a good year for us. I believe it could have been better. I believe it will get better. 2018 is here. It鈥檚 going to be extremely busy for us in (the first quarter) and throughout the year. Every time I come out to the field, I鈥檓 always seeing new faces. There鈥檚 new people coming into our industry. Lots of people have left. Some aren鈥檛 coming back. So this is the time, I feel it鈥檚 most important. All of you who are experienced, you now need to train and take care of all the new people that are coming into our industry and make sure they go home safely every day.鈥�
He noted two safety initiatives underway for 2018 鈥� stop and think, and hazard identification.
鈥淲e鈥檙e going to have a busy year. It鈥檚 going to be a good year. Stay safe,鈥� Swain said.
The speaker for the event was former Saskatchewan Roughrider Dan Comiskey. He was drafted by the Riders in the 1997 CFL draft, and played 13 seasons for the聽,听,听听补苍诲听, retiring in 2010. With the Edmonton Eskimos he was a part of two Grey Cup championships.
He spoke of his coach in Edmonton standing on a chair in the locker room before a big game, saying, 鈥淚鈥檓 Bill MacDermott. You can count on me.鈥� Each member of the coaching staff and the team then stood on that chair, saying the same thing about themselves.
鈥淚 knew I just became part of the machine,鈥� Chomiskey said.
鈥淲e pulled it off. We won the Grey Cup. That moment changed me.鈥�
He noted one should do the things that work, over and over again. Doing so creates habits, accountability and leadership.
鈥淪ometimes you have to lose to win. Learn form your failures,鈥� he said.
Later in his career Comiskey suffered from numerous concussions, the final one of which ended his career. He was done.
鈥淲hat I didn鈥檛 learn from football was you gotta know when to change. One of the biggest things we do as human 小蓝视频s is adapt,鈥� he said.
He became a safety advisor, working for Shell for six years, learning more about people and leadership.
Comiskey spoke of the 鈥渂utterfly effect,鈥� and how one little change may prevent bad things from happening. As concrete examples, he spoke of his father-in-law getting hit in the head by a piece of rock, on his first hitch on a new job in a mine in the Northwest Territories. His brother was electrocuted and killed as an electrical lineman in 2001 because he had the wrong glove on.
By his calculations, there were 600,000 chances for his brother, Augie, to not have been killed, by having done something differently. But it happened.
Safety is all habits, he said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e got to create a habit of safety.鈥�
鈥淭his room is your team,鈥� he concluded.聽
