Toolbox, developed by the Energy Institute (EI) is a free to use web app for providing learning from incidents and hazards to frontline workers in the energy sector. Toolbox is now available in 10 languages and hosts approximately 500 learning resources in text and video format.

As part of the Toolbox project, the EI is bringing you a series of free to attend monthly webinars throughout 2022, where experienced industry speakers will explore various topics to help organisations better learn from past incidents. You can see the full webinar programme and access recordings of past Toolbox presents | Learning from Incidents webinar series events by visiting the dedicated page on our website.

The February webinar (recording available here) focused on how Toolbox can be used in the field, with two great examples presented by Richard Pargeter, Head of HSE UK Ocean Winds and Carlos Wigstrom, HSE Manager Repsol Canada and Founder of Process Safety Org / PSM101 Academy. Ocean Winds is embedding Toolbox into their operations via an RSS feed, bringing new relevant content to frontline workers as it gets published. Repsol Canada is using Toolbox in conjunction with the Process Safety Fundamentals from the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), practice which according to Carlos, helped Repsol Canada reduce the number of major events from seven in 2018, to zero events for process safety between 2019-2021. These are just two ways in which Toolbox being used, with other users accessing the Toolbox website directly, or companies linking their internal systems and intranet to the Toolbox platform via API. To date, Toolbox has around 40,000 users per year, with a constantly growing user base.

There are three ways to get involved with Toolbox:

  1. Use it! Toolbox is freely available at https://toolbox.energyinst.org.
  2. Share your content. We can only improve safety performance if industry is willing to share lessons learned from incidents.
  3. Help fund Toolbox. Toolbox is funded by a small number of companies. Become a Toolbox supporter and be part of a community that helps improve safety globally, contributing to ensure that future content is developed, translated into other languages, and allow Toolbox to remain free to use by frontline workers.

For more information about Toolbox, contact the EI Toolbox team at [email protected].