S4110 - Safety consultants, landmen

Operational Details
Safety consultants conduct surveys and monitor programs to identify sources of pollution or air contamination. They investigate spills of hazardous wastes and chemicals and prepare reports to management and the government. They inspect the workplace to ensure equipment, processes, and procedures are safe. Those posing a work safety or health problem are written up, identified and discussed with the appropriate authorities and corrections are made to restore safe working conditions in the plant or business site.

Safety consultants often make recommendations on an overview basis and if their findings are acceptable, they will offer to develop a plan and implement it to resolve safety issues. This might involve classroom instruction of the workers on safe lifting practices, how to use rigging gear, the proper way to dismount from a piece of mobile equipment, how to avoid repetitious injuries and so on. They may also give practical and classroom First Aid instruction.

Safety consultants may also design and present safety manuals to employers who require them before they can successfully bid on projects. (In many cases oil companies will not hire a firm that does not have a safety manual and safety education).

Landmen or land administrators work primarily for oil and gas companies. They negotiate surface and mineral rights with the landowner and obtains permission for the oil or gas firm to drill on their property. The majority of the landman’s time is spent travelling throughout the province, negotiating with individual landowners, primarily farmers. A landman monitors activity on the lease as well as ensuring the oil or gas company is meeting its obligations with the landowner. Landmen are licensed under the Landman Licencing Act.

Also included in this industry are permit men, who do not require a provincial licence. They have responsibilities similar to landmen, however, they do not deal with oil or gas companies. Rather, they deal with seismic exploration firms.

Permit men obtain permission from landowners for access to their land by the seismic company who is searching for oil or gas. The permit man finally negotiates a fee with the landowner for the use of his or her land once the seismic data has been obtained. If oil or gas is found, then a landman becomes involved with the landowner on behalf of the oil or gas company.

SIC Codes
000000793 - Safety consultant
000000794 - Landmen