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Contractors onboarded within four months
Quarterly supplier safety surveys completed
Avetta One empowers Encino Energy to keep a constantly changing contractor workforce safe, compliant, and fully prepared by providing real-time, mobile-enabled visibility, streamlined compliance tracking, and robust support for both field teams and suppliers.
With an ever-changing and challenging fieldwork environment, Encino Energy is responsible for maintaining a safe workplace staffed by capable contractors and subcontractors. Encino Energies continuous exploration and production operations, along with ever-changing contractor and subcontractor workforces, creates a complex on-site workplace. Keeping job sites safe requires all workers to be skilled in implementing and executing hazard mitigation plans.
The advent of mobile-based digital environmental, health, and safety platforms, such as Avetta One, provides contractors, subcontractor suppliers, and the Encino Energy EHS Director with synergistic access to their compliance status. The real-time tracking and updates accessible by all suppliers and Encino Energy allows management in the field to be aware of their suppliers' job readiness and allows for the timely completion of all necessary EHS demands to manage their workforce readiness.
Due to the continuous need for health and safety compliance for the ever-changing supplier workforce, manual solutions are too slow and laborious. With a digital platform like Avetta One, the Encino Energy field and office personnel, as well as suppliers, could be assured of worker-level compliance along with their historical performance.
On a real-time basis, efficient field access to supplier compliance information was now a practical matter that could be accessed by all parties, anytime from anywhere. In addition, timely updates for points of contact in the field along with their profiles were now available.
Encino Energy had a need to implement a customizable digital application that could be integrated into their field operations to provide ongoing updates on audits and surveys. This process has ensured that suppliers would be better prepared for their job requirements.
Centralized platforms like Avetta One that were intuitively easy to use for all and that offered a reasonable cost to suppliers were key to a successful implementation. Not only were timely updates and tracking of compliance requirements necessary but also increased communication between suppliers and field managers, an essential step to assure all suppliers were ready and able to perform the work required.
Along with the customizable solution, Encino Energy was pleasantly surprised by the robust support that came as part of the Avetta offering. For Encino Energy and their suppliers, continuous support for all health and safety compliance concerns and ongoing updates were a hallmark of the Avetta commitment to customer service and support.
The discounted personal protective equipment, or PPE, to their various contractors and subcontractors was a welcome benefit, along with the Avetta consulting services. Whether it was certificate of insurance compliance or the follow up for supplier job readiness, the Avetta One solution alleviated the need for contractors and subcontractors to carry multiple safety-related cards while increasing their compliance visibility to Encino Energy field leadership.
With the advent of contractors employing more subcontractors, the need for widespread adoption and use of Avetta’s mobile platform is continuing to be a priority. With a workforce that is increasingly transient at the contractor and especially subcontractor-levels, the need for ubiquitous use of timely health and safety information for all workers is never more important and necessary. The implementation of worker management along with job applicable prequalification as a high-level worker requirement is ongoing, along with integration of the Avetta One platform and HSE requirements into the daily field operations of Encino Energy.
One of the biggest drivers of adoption was Avetta’s robust support team, who led contractor outreach and onboarding while flagging outliers back to Encino for action.
“A few of the features that made the onboarding process with Avetta successful was robust support staff that helped facilitate the transition as they took lead in communicating with all of our contractors to make sure that they were successfully onboarded,” said Fairhurst.
The Avetta platform gave Encino tangible results in day-to-day operations, from increased communication between field EHS supervisors and suppliers to better-prepared contractors arriving onsite. Quarterly supplier surveys and audits provided the data needed to enhance safety assurance and productivity. “We have observed Encino Energy suppliers show up to our locations better prepared, thus increasing productivity of our overall workforce,” Fairhurst explained.
“Based on our experience so far I would recommend Avetta as a contractor management platform throughout the oil and gas industry. We truly see our continued partnership with Avetta as being a building block and foundational piece of driving a safe and productive culture at Encino Energy.”
– Scott Fairhurst, Environmental Health & Safety Manager, Encino Energy
Feedback from suppliers has also been positive, citing seamless communication and fast problem resolution with Avetta’s customer support. The partnership has even unlocked access to discounted PPE and consulting services, further supporting contractor safety.
Encino Energy is a leading oil and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is focused on acquiring and developing high-quality assets while maintaining a strong culture of safety, responsibility, and productivity.
Avetta’s Workforce Management solution gives you real-time visibility and control over your workforce and assets. Easily verify worker qualifications, ensure only competent, trained personnel access your sites, and meet all safety and legislative requirements with confidence – all while reducing risk and improving operational efficiency.
