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Purpose <br />This field guide is a quick reference to help <br />personnel involved in high-risk activities to <br />identify and control the significant potential <br />hazards unique to each activity and job. <br />This field guide supplements but does not replace <br />existing permitting procedures and safe work practices. <br />To keep it brief, not every potential hazard or prevention <br />is listed. Apply appropriate local hazard assessment <br />procedures, along with this guide, to comprehensively <br />assess each job. <br />Field Guide Applications <br />Before beginning your high-risk activity, review <br />significant potential hazards and associated preventions. <br />Refer to the field guide in all phases of hazard <br />assessment: during planning, permitting, implementing <br />and closeout. <br />Integrate this tool into local efforts on fatality and <br />serious injury prevention. <br />Build awareness among workers, supervisors and work <br />leaders at meetings, field visits, shift turnovers and any <br />other opportunity. <br />Augment Managing Safe Work (MSW) field engagement <br />and Contractor Health, Environment and Safety <br />Management (CHESM) activities. <br />Use during near-miss and incident investigations. <br />Use as an Operational Excellence (OE) audit or self-audit <br />tool for high-risk observations. <br />Preventing serious injuries and fatalities requires <br />operational discipline. This means performing every task <br />the right way every time, from initial hazard assessment <br />through each step of the job, including post-activity review. <br />'Activities, tasks and exposures most frequently associated with serious <br />injuries rind fatalities in Chevron and industry. <br />2