Safety Climate Research
Dr. Lourrinda Renée
Dr. Lourrinda Renée is a dynamic and seasoned leader, who has spent over two decades within the Oil and Gas industry as a Regional Project Safety Manager on both multiple million- and billion-dollar projects. She has worked with a variety of construction and general industry organizations holding many management positions. Her experience provides her with an incredible ability to motivate and inspire teams to accomplish their mutual goals.
Lourrinda believes leadership is about developing yourself and influencing others around you. She looks for ways to empower each individual on her team, so they can grow into better leaders themselves. She strives to ensure each person feels valued, respected, and heard by providing feedback, mentoring, and coaching.
Lourrinda’s passion for helping others succeed makes her an incredible leader who makes any organization better not only because of her leadership qualities, but her ability to inspire others around her through kindness and encouragement.
Lourrinda has completed two separate dissertations within the Oil & Gas Industry and many other published papers, focused upon Safety Climate. Safety Climate Research uses NOSACQ-50.
Lourrinda’s latest research detailed the oil and gas industry safety climate in reference to oil and gas restoration/agricultural workers. The oil-and-gas industry infrastructure is based upon a constant construction and maintenance schedule. Many of these activities require agricultural contractors and sub-contractors to come onsite for land restoration activities.
Both agriculture and oil-and-gas industries consist of highly complex and hazardous environments, known for countless injuries and fatalities (Arcury et al., 2012b; Chan, 2011; Shea, De Cieri, Donohue, Cooper, & Sheehan, 2016; Skeepers & Mbohwa, 2015). Due to these high incident rates state and federal regulators, businesses, and workers strive to lower incidents, however, work related injuries and fatalities continue to rise. Agriculture, construction, and oil-and-gas deaths lead all US industry work related deaths, increasing six-fold over the past ten years, with many deaths not reported (Arana et al., 2010; Battaglia, Bianchi, Frey, & Passetti, 2015; Lebeau, Duguay, & Boucher, 2014; Shea et al., 2016; U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015). In 2014, work related deaths went up for agricultural (+14%), construction (+6%), and contractor workers (+17%), Missikpode et al., 2015; U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). Agricultural injuries are typically severe in nature, consisting of significant soft-tissue injuries, neurovascular damage, multiple fractures, and amputations (Yaffe & Kaplan, 2014). Disabling injuries affect over 150,000 US agricultural workers annually (Smith, 2011). An organization’s safety culture becomes more complicated as corporations routinely hire outside contractors to support its internal operations (Mearns & Yule, 2009; Schwatka, Hecker, & Goldenhar, 2016). Nowhere is the seriousness of work-related injuries more pronounced than where construction and agricultural contractors work together on oil-and-gas projects (Casey, Riseborough, & Krauss, 2015; Schwatka et al., 2016; Yousefi et al., 2016).
Lourrinda’s Publications:
Renée, Lourrinda (2020)., “Elements of Safety Climate Leadership.” IAEM Practitioner’s Research Poster Contest Presented at 2020 International Association of Emergency Managers, Long Beach, CA (Virtual) placed Bronze Internationally (3rd).
Renée, Lourrinda (2018). Exploring Safety Climate Perceptional Differences Amongst Direct and Indirect Employees Engaged in Pipeline Restoration©. Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona, Dissertation 2018. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19332.99208
Renée, Lourrinda (2016). A Review of NFPA 1600: IAEM (International Association of Emergency Management), The Bulletin, April 2016.
Renée, Lourrinda (2011). Sixty Times. IAEM (International Association of Emergency Management), The Responder, September 2011, Volume 8, Issue 3.
Renée, Lourrinda (2011). The Planning P, Taking the Fear Away. IAEM (International Association of Emergency Management), The Responder, May 2011, Volume 5, Issue 3.
Renée, Lourrinda (2010). U.S.A. Division Emergency Response Plan (ERP) for Encana Oil and Gas, Inc. (USA)©, 683 pages, 2010
Renée, Lourrinda (2010). Emergency Evacuation Plans for High Rise Buildings {Dallas, Pennsylvania, Denver, and Shreveport} Encana Oil and Gas, Inc. (USA)©, 2010
Renée, Lourrinda (2008). Pipeline Construction Safety Practices©. Warren National University, Cheyenne, WY; Dissertation 2008. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30080.89602
Renée, Lourrinda (2004). City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Emergency Operations Plan©. City of Spring Hill, TN, Thesis, November 2004.
Renée, Lourrinda (1995). A Review of Laws Regarding Pornographic and Obscene Materials with Studies Relating to Their Use and Effect.© University of Oklahoma, 1995.
Lourrinda’s Presentations:
Renée, Lourrinda (2023). World Safety Organization 2023 International Safety & Health Symposium presenter, Leadership Traits and Management Reward Implementation, Odessa, TX, October 2023.
Renée, Lourrinda (2019). World Safety Organization’s 2019 Environmental and Occupational Safety & Health Professional Development Symposium presenter, Safety Climate Perceptions of Workers, Las Vegas, NV, October 2019.
‘Safety Measurement’ is a method for measuring safety behavior and safety conditions in a workplace. It shows the workplaces’ current level of safety expressed as the percentage of correct and incorrect safety observations, supported by possible notes, photos and smileys (the latter functions work only in the commercial / ‘Release’ version of the app). Results can be directly compared with results from previous measurements from the same or other workplaces.
The method is based on the Finnish TR method, and the app was developed by safety researchers from NRCWE.DK and AMKHerning.dk, with software programming by MobileIdentity.DK
Contact:
Pete Kines
pki@nrcwe.dk
