H-E-A-R Say, Volume 2, Issue 3 is now available

July 2010: The latest issue of H-E-A-R Say, vPSI Group's newsletter, is now available. Don't forget to subscribe on the download page so you never miss an issue.

vPSI Out and About in 2010

July 2010: Several vPSI consultants represented vPSI Group at the Greater Houston STEPS Network Vendor Day on 20th July 2010. Ron Clarke and Gary Reznicek were available to discuss the vPSI System™.

Also in July, Gary Reznicek attended the AIHA Gulf Coast Section Dinner meeting and presentation at Brady's Landing on 15th July 2010.

June 2010: Norman Ritchie spoke at the TCC/ACIT Environmental, Health & Safety Seminar at Moody Gardens in Galveston Texas on 9th June 2010. He discussed Personal Risk Assessment: a discussion on how we go about making the decisions to accept certain risks and how this thinking is carried over into the work place.

May 2010: Gary Reznicek attended the AIHA Gulf Coast Section dinner meeting in Houston, Texas on 20th May 2010 where Norman Ritchie, vPSI Director, discussed Achieving the Next Level in Health & Safety Performance, providing insight into reassignment of resources and realignment of success measures from consequence mitigation to problem management.

Also in May, Norman Ritchie spoke at the 26th Governor’s Safety and Health Conference and Expo in Louisville, Kentucky on 5th May 2010. With Mike Alley of Marathon’s Catlettsburg Refinery, he discussed Applying vPSI Methods of Accident Prevention to Improve Our Safe Work Performance and Increase Productivity.

H-E-A-R Say, Volume 2, Issue 2 is now available

April 2010: The latest issue of H-E-A-R Say, vPSI Group's newsletter, is now available. Don't forget to subscribe on the download page so you never miss an issue.

Open Enrollment Classes Forming Now

January 2010: vPSI Group is offering open enrollment classes for those interested in attending our fundamental class, Applying vPSI Methods of Accident Prevention. In addition to regularly available class in Houston, there will be two classes in Aberdeen, UK on the 18th and 19th of February, and one class in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on the 26th of February. If you are interested in registering or for more information, please send an email to info@vpsigroup.com.

H-E-A-R Say, Volume 2, Issue 1 is now available

January 2010: The third installment of H-E-A-R Say, vPSI Group's newsletter, is now available. Don't forget to subscribe on the download page so you never miss an issue.

vPSI On the Podium in 2009

June 2009: Carl Veley, Founder, vPSI Group, LLC, was a keynote speaker at the Texas Chemical Council / Association of Chemical Industry of Texas Environmental Health and Safety Seminar held at Moody Gardens in Galveston. The topic of Mr. Veley’s talk was Better Accident Prevention with Fewer Resources.

June 2009: Norman Ritchie, co-founder of vPSI Group, gave a keynote address at the IMPACT WORLD Users Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, organized by Syntex Management Systems, Inc. The topic of Mr. Ritchie's address was Calculating Leading Indicators from Lagging Processes.

Open Enrollment Classes Forming Now

October 2009: vPSI Group is offering open enrollment classes for those interested in attending our fundamental class, Applying vPSI Methods of Accident Prevention. There will be a class on November 16th in Stavanger, Norway and two classes in Houston, Texas: November 20th and December 16th . If you are interested in registering or for more information, please send an email to info@vpsigroup.com.

H-E-A-R Say, Volume 1, Issue 2 is now available

October 2009: The second issue of H-E-A-R Say, vPSI Group's newsletter, is now available. Don't forget to subscribe on the download page so you never miss an issue.

H-E-A-R Say, the vPSI Newsletter, Inaugurated

July 2009: H-E-A-R Say, vPSI Group's first edition newsletter is now available. Those familiar with vPSI terminology will recognize the clever pun in the title that includes our acronym for the four components of all accidents: Harm, the unplanned Event, Acts of people, and Reasons for the acts. We will cover more about vPSI terminology in upcoming issues.

Launch of the vPSI Online Corrective Action Assessment Tool & Database^SM

June 2009: vPSI Group, LLC unveiled the new vPSI Online Corrective Action Assessment Tool and Database^SM, its second online tool. In addition, a new portal page was created to be the entry point for all current and future online tools. More information on this can be found here.

vPSI Group Welcomes a New Director

May 2009: vPSI Group announces the addition of Ron Clarke to its top management staff, joining the illustrious team of Carl Veley, founder, and Norman Ritchie, co-founder.

vPSI On the Podium in 2008

December 2008: Carl Veley, Founder, vPSI Group, LLC, gave a paper at the International Petroleum Technology Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The title of the paper was Corporate HSE Bureaucracies Impede Accident Prevention.

June 2008: Carl Veley presented a paper at the Texas Chemical Council / Association of Chemical Industry of Texas Environmental Health and Safety Seminar held at Moody Gardens in Galveston. The topic of Mr. Veley’s talk was Identifying Hidden and Overlooked Failures.

May 2008: Carl Veley presented a session on Accident Prevention Technology at the University of Texas, Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX).

May 2008: Carl Veley spoke at the Gulf Coast Chapter of the ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) on the subject of Accident Prevention Technology.

April 2008: Carl Veley was a speaker and panel member at an SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) conference in Nice, France. The subject of the panel discussion was Learning From Failure. He also served on the committee that selected papers for presentation at the conference.

Launch of the vPSI Online Pre-Task Planning Tool & Library System^SM

April 2008: vPSI Group, LLC unveiled the new vPSI Online Pre-Task Planning Tool & Library System^SM. More information on this can be found here.

vPSI Winners Recognized

March 2008: vPSI Group, LLC Founder & Director Carl Veley (on left) with Thom Northcott, Jr. (GES, Inc.), Lynda Pigula (vPSI) and TJ Northcott (GES, Inc.) at Marathon's Living Our Values Award Ceremony, where GES, Inc received the Small Contractor of the Year Award from Marathon President & CEO, Charles Cazalot.

Marathon's Living Our Values Corporate Social Responsibility Awards recognize and celebrate achievement in health and safety, environmental stewardship, honesty and integrity, corporate citizenship and diversity.

GES, Inc attribute their success in large part to the vPSI System™, which they implemented in 2007. GES, Inc recently achieved certification of their 2007 vPSI Number™, confirming that they are a Continuous Improvement company.

At the awards ceremony, vPSI figured prominently amongst winners' write-ups and presentations:

The HES Upstream Award was won by Marathon's Europe Production Operations who cited "...increased use of leading indicators such as BBS, vPSI, etc."

The President's Award for Responsible Care went to Catlettsburg Refining, LLC who differentiated themselves as "... the only downstream organization to implement the vPSI method of accident prevention".

vPSI was also referenced by finalists Central Africa Production Operations and Inlet Drilling Alaska, Inc.

vPSI On the Podium in 2007

October 2007: Carl Veley, founder of vPSI Group, LLC presented a paper entitled Using Accident Reports to Forecast Bureaucracy Growth Rates at the IADC Drilling HSE Europe Conference in Copenhagen.

September 2007: Carl Veley of vPSI Group, LLC presented two papers at the SPE Asia Pacific Health, Safety, Security and Environment Conference in Bangkok. Carl's papers were entitled What To Do When People Deliberately Violate Safety Rules and Spreadsheet Simulators That Demonstrate How Statistics Can Lie About Safety Performance. Carl was also a Session Co-Chair for a panel on Contractor Evaluation & Selection and a Panelist for a second session on Partnership in Achieving Common Goals in Safety.

August 2007: Ray Cook of Marathon presented a paper entitled Marathon's Safety Improvement Utilizing the vPSI Method at the ASSE Region III Professional Development Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.

vPSI Trademark Registration Awarded

September 2007: vPSI Group, LLC Founder / Director Carl Veley (on left) receives the Certificate of Registration for the vPSI Trademark from Timothy Johnson of Matthews, Lawson & Bowick, PLCC.

Halliburton vPSI Pilot Project Underway

July 2007: Halliburton has selected their Gulf of Mexico Region as the location for a pilot implementation of the vPSI System™. After determination of an initial baseline vPSI Number™, approximately 200 people will undergo vPSI training and receive ongoing mentoring. A final vPSI Number™ will be assessed at year end to demonstrate the impact of vPSI on the organization.

Marathon's Catlettsburg Refinery Trains 66 in vPSI JHA Methods

June 2007: Just completed: training at Marathon's Catlettsburg Refinery for 66 key refinery staff in the vPSI approach to pre-task planning within the JHA / JSA framework. Advanced vPSI methods such as these build on the 1-day Problem Solving & Accident Prevention training class. In total, 230 Catlettsburg personnel are now utilizing vPSI in their work.

vPSI in Africa & Europe with Marathon

June 2007: Marathon's personnel in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Scotland, Ireland and Norway have been trained in the fundamentals of the vPSI System™ and have joined their US colleagues in using the vPSI Number™ as a key performance indicator. Several Marathon Business Units have proved they enjoy the benefits of a continuous improvement culture by maintaining their vPSI Number™ above the critical 200 threshold. Congratulations!