Role of staff in ensuring environmental safety in the petroleum industry

The article is concerned with the fact that the petroleum industry is one of the most environmentally dangerous sectors of management. In order to ensure environmental safety particular attention should be paid to the staff of the petroleum companies, improve its environmental competence and environmental culture. The development of oil and gas fields have a significant impact on the environment. In this regard, higher requirements for environmental competence of specialists and their managers are required in the petroleum industry. One of the ways of forming the ecological competence of experts, is additional training. In this article, developed technology of ecological competence for petroleum professionals in the system of additional vocational training. The purpose of entities (associations, employers, petroleum experts, teachers in the system of additional vocational training) and objectives of the professional training as for ensuring environmental safety in the petroleum industry needed to achieve goals has been highlighted. The technique of practice-oriented formation of required competencies, like internship program, is presented. The main methods used for the formation of ecological competence for the petroleum professionals. A model for the organization of additional training for the formation of ecological competence in the petroleum industry is outlined