PetroStreet

HSE guys,
What are the best practices ti handle off-the-job incidents in the petrochemical /O&G industries?
Furnish some of the references as well.

Typically, what practices we follow are these in order:
Notification & welfare check (same day)
Basic fact capture (within 24–48h): what/when/where/type, immediate needs
Classification: OTJ vs work-related; severity tier; confidentiality level
Learning review / investigation (scaled)
Actions: individual support + systemic controls (transport, fatigue, etc.)
Close-out & share anonymized lessons learned
-OTJ stands separate from TRIR calculations anyway-

In petrochemical / O&G, Off-the-Job (OTJ) incidents are managed seriously because statistically, OTJ fatalities (especially road crashes) often exceed on-the-job fatalities. Mature operators treat OTJ under Personal Safety Risk Management, not as HR trivia.
Most companies anchor OTJ under:
ISO 45001:2018 – Incident reporting & continual improvement
IOGP Report 510/456 – Personal safety data and land transport
OSHA 29 CFR 1904.5 – Work-relatedness determination (for US sites)
And that is what we have implemented long at our facilities.

Over & above what International reommended practices ask for, Companies have developed their own internal policies where an off-the-job incident is required to be shared to enhance learning & adopting best safe practices. Reporting is required to be done as and when such an incident happens. Employees are responsible not to hide just like an on-the-job incident as every such event would provide a chance of learning for all others. We have been reporting in this way for more than 20 years. For obvious reasons, all the details which may reveal any personal identities are not revealed when incidents are shared for learning and applied with recommendations to avoid recurrence.