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ConventionSection: North Dakota Petroleum Council
on any location of those employers that
are signed up."
According to the association, the curriculum will increase awareness on more
than 40 safety topics as well as several
North Dakota-specific job hazards not
always covered in traditional job-site
programs, including low-temperature
and transportation hazards. NDPC says
it estimates 32,000 contractors attended
orientations during their hiring processes
in 2018, many attending multiple sessions
during the year. It calculates that attending a single ONE Basin-One Way!
session will save more than 1.25 million
man-hours now spent in redundant safety
orientations.
NDPC partnered with the North Dakota
Safety Council, TrainND Northwest and
Diamond B to develop the program, Ness
says. Participating companies, which he
notes represent nearly 50% of the oil and
gas production in the Bakken Shale, are
Bruin E&P Operating LLC, Crestwood
Midstream Partners, Enerplus Corp.,
Equinor, Hess Corp., Oasis Petroleum,
ONEON Inc., QEP Resources Inc., Whiting Petroleum Corp., WPX Energy Inc.,
and XTO Energy Inc. A grant from North
Dakota Workforce Safety and Insurance
will provide partial scholarships.
In a June 21 signing ceremony in Bismarck opening the ONE Basin-One Way!
program, Governor Doug Burgum called
the collaboration an important step forward
for safety in the state's oil and gas industry.
"We are grateful to see producers, pipeline
companies and training providers working
together, and we look forward to continued
enhancements and innovations that will
make safety training even better in our
state," Burgum praised.
Ness says workers must attend a fourhour, instructor-led classroom session in
the first year of the orientation cycle, and
then complete a 60-90 minute computerbased refresher session the second year.
The cycle then repeats. Orientation classes
are being held in seven locations across
the state: Willison, Dickinson, Minot, Tio-

ga, Watford City, Bismarck and Fargo.
Ness points out the program provides
a great benefit to the state's oil and gas
workers. "Instead of having people sitting
in duplicative orientation training in classrooms multiple times, you do one fourhour session and you are trained," he describes. You then have this certificate that
goes along with you and everything is
high-tech and trackable."
The ONE Basin-One Way! program

is in its infancy, and by mid-July had
trained 200 workers. Ness says NDPC
forecasts more than 30,000 oil and gas
personnel will complete the program over
the next 18 months.
"It is a big deal and has been a big undertaking for the association to get this
under way," he says. "This is 100% an
industry/NDPC-led effort, and I think
other producing basins will be interested
in this program."
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