Indicators for the health performance of the industry are a necessary part of effective health management and the promotion of improvements in health performance. Currently there is no globally applied set of performance indicators within the oil and gas industry. This document updates the 1999 OGP publication 'Health Performance Indicators' (Report 6.78/290) in the context of recently agreed guidance on voluntary sustainability reporting (API/IPIECA, 2005) and the growth of health management standards.

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The dispersed nature of the multinational facilities of the oil and gas industry leads to extensive international and transoceanic travel at all organisational levels. This booklet gives some simple travel health guidance notes that can either be used and distributed to employees ‘as is’, or adapted for use as part of an ‘in-house’ health management programme.

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This guide is intended primarily as a tool to assist oil and gas industry supervisors and occupational health practitioners to understand, recognise and manage fatigue in the workplace. It sets out to: explain the health and safety risk posed by fatigue; provide the necessary background information on sleep and the body clock; and describe the main causes of fatigue and provide strategies for managing the causes.

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This Guide outlines and describes the scientific concepts, rationale and value of Malaria Management Programmes (MMPs) for the oil and gas industry. The Guide provides a broad overview of MMPs, and templates such as implementation checklists and audit protocols that might typically form part of key activities when implementing MMPs in the oil and gas industry.

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This Guide is designed to help oil industry managers and supervisors understand, recognize, and deal effectively with stress in the workplace. It aims to encourage and enable an holistic approach to the management of workplace stress, with a focus on prevention. The Guide is designed to complement current practice, which tends to focus more on developing employee ability to cope with stress and, when this fails, on treatment options.

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The OGP-IPIECA Health Risk Assessment (HRA) document provides an introduction to HRA processes in general as well as a CD-based template giving examples of HRA specific implementation, and is designed to provide a customizable tool that members can use to evaluate the potential for individual harm and protect against adverse exposures in the workplace. The document explains the basics of HRA, including health hazard identification, health risk evaluation, setting priorities, reducing risks and taking remedial actions, formulating remediation action plans and finally recording the HRA itself.

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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), has become one of the most serious public health challenges of modern times. The increasing prevalence of AIDS and the lack of a permanent cure threaten to seriously disrupt normal commercial activity.This growing and very real business issue must be carefully and responsibly managed to maximize the protection afforded to our employees, and to minimize the social, business and economic impacts on oil and gas industry operations.

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This Guide aims to describe the overall HIA process as it is currently understood and practised. HIA is a useful and beneficial tool for business, communities and government policy makers. Experience within the oil and gas industry suggests that health is a critical issue both to the project workforce and the surrounding communities. The oil and gas industry faces a complex agenda that increasingly requires an evaluation of health, social and environmental impacts throughout all of its operations.

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