Safe Industry Alliance
Built by industry, for industry
Built by industry, for industry
Contractor-led industry safety group
The Safe Industry Alliance brings contractors, operators, safety professionals, regulators, and workforce partners together to share resources, discuss emerging risks, and turn safety collaboration into practical action across the Bakken and surrounding energy sectors.
Our guiding principle. This is not another compliance organization. It is an industry-led forum where safety expectations, lessons learned, training resources, and emerging hazards get discussed openly — and converted into action.
The energy industry faces common safety challenges across contractors, operators, trucking, workover rigs, lease operations, construction, emergency response, and field services — and many companies are trying to solve them on their own.
Help contractors move beyond simply reacting to operator requirements and become active leaders in safety strategy.
A centralized place for safety expectations, API Recommended Practices, training resources, safety alerts, and best-practice guidance.
Address foundational gaps in lockout/tagout, PPE, hazard recognition, and field-level awareness.
A safe, professional method for sharing redacted incident information, near misses, and industry trends.
Focus on the people who decide about training, staffing, resources, supervision, and safety expectations.
A long-term shift where companies collaborate on safety instead of operating in silos.
A single, consistent place to see what the operators and energy companies you work for actually expect — organized around the IOGP Life-Saving Rules, with the public regulatory baseline where no operator-specific data is on file.
Energy companies across the Bakken, each with a profile covering 20 safety and compliance focus areas — 10 Life-Saving Actions and 10 Programs & Oversight sections. Operators with requirements on file show their own expectations; the rest show the public OSHA / DOT / API / ASME / NFPA baseline with a note to confirm directly.
Pick your area and work types and get back the tasks involved, the OSHA 1910 / 1926 sections and API Recommended Practices that apply, the Life-Saving Actions to prioritize, and a program-building checklist.
Searchable API Recommended Practices, OSHA 1910 and OSHA 1926 — with the sections OSHA highlights for oil & gas extraction flagged so you can start where it matters.
A filterable table of operator safety alerts and bulletins, identified by operator, date, and business unit, each linking to the source document.
The Alliance concentrates on hazards and gaps that show up in more than one corner of the industry — the ones where shared work beats separate work.
The Alliance meets quarterly, generally one week after Neutral Grounds meetings so updated industry information can be shared efficiently. A short planning session runs about a week before each meeting.
Q4 2026 meeting — next on the calendar. Agenda in development; topic and speaker suggestions from members are welcome.
Quarterly meeting.
Q3 2026 meeting. Introduction to the Alliance; anticipating and preparing for high-risk projects; safety leadership and excellence in operations; the business of safety; the collaboration problem; and an open forum on contractor safety issues for operators' ears.
Dates are as agreed by the board and may be adjusted — confirm with the Alliance before making travel plans.
A board member serves as a practical industry voice, helping the Alliance stay focused on real field conditions, meaningful safety improvement, and useful deliverables.
Four meetings a year, plus a 1–2 hour planning session about a week before each one. Occasional help with speaker recommendations, resource review, outreach, topic development, safety alert review, or meeting follow-up.
This should not become a heavy operational burden. The Alliance should be useful, not exhausting.
Someone with field or industry credibility who understands contractor realities, values practical safety improvement, works well with operators and regulators, is willing to share knowledge, cares about new-worker development, and can help move discussion into action. The board aims for a balanced mix of contractors, operators, safety leaders, field operations leaders, workforce development partners, regulatory and resource partners, and service company leadership.
Reach out and we'll get you the board membership packet and the details for the next quarterly meeting.