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<title>Step Change introduce their new Website</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 08:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Step Change in Safety wish to take this opportunity to advise all of its users world wide that it will soon be introducing a new and improved web site.&#160; The new site will have many new features, including allowing registered users to book themselves onto... ]]></description>
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<title>Industry Lifting Training and Competence Standards for Banksman/Slinger</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 08:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Rigger Competence pdf LOLER Competence pdf BS2 Competence pdf BS1 Competence pdf Competent people are a prerequisite for safe lifting.&#160; Good training and a high level of competence already exist, but the requirements and the standards vary.&#160; Step Change is delighted to announce that&#160;standards for... ]]></description>
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<title>Electronic version of the ECI phase out</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 09:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ During 2009 and 2010 the oil and gas industry introduced the Minimum Industry Safety Training, known as MIST, &#160;to complement the existing emergency training.&#160;&#160;A gap analysis was commissioned and performed by OPITO to identify if MIST satisfactorily covered all of the aspects included within the... ]]></description>
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<title>The Health and Safety Executive and Step Change in Safety Introduction to the new Control of Substances Hazardous to Health</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 09:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The Health and Safety Executive and Step Change in Safety have once again worked together in order to present to the offshore oil and gas industry a development in existing legislation to ease compliance and make understanding of the requirements easier for those who may... ]]></description>
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<title>Tea Shack News</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 09:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Nov06 pdf apr11 pdf nov10 pdf june10 pdf jan10 pdf aug09 pdf feb09 pdf nov08 pdf jul08 pdf dec07 pdf june07 pdf feb06 pdf mar05 pdf august04 pdf It is the intention of Step Change in Safety to share information as it becomes available; to... ]]></description>
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<title>Human factors briefing notes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The EI has revised its Human factors briefing notes resource pack and this is now available from the EI website (both for purchase as a hardcopy pack, or freely downloadable as PDFs). To improve industry&#8217;s understanding of key human factors issues, as identified by HSE,... ]]></description>
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<title>Lessons Learned from Macondo</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling The reports and presentations from this body can be found at this link:- &#160; http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/ ]]></description>
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<title>Report of the Montara Commission of Enquiry</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ http://www.ret.gov.au/Department/Documents/MIR/Montara-Report.pdf In the early hours of 21 August 2009, a small &#8216;burp&#8217; of oil and gas was reported as having escaped from the H1 Well at the Montara WHP. The oil and gas had travelled a distance of over four kilometres from the reservoir beneath... ]]></description>
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<title>RIDDOR reporting period extension gets the green light </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ At a meeting of the HSE Board&#160;on 17 August, it was decided to recommend to the Work and Pensions Secretary that the proposed change to reg.3(2) of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 be carried into effect. The decision was based... ]]></description>
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<title>Report on the accident to Eurocopter EC225 LP Super Puma, G-REDU near the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP) Central Production Facility Platform in the North Sea on 18 February 2009 </title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Prior to this Final Report, the AAIB published Special Bulletins on 24 March 2009 and 23&#160;June 2009. &#160; Twenty-seven Safety Recommendations have been made. &#160; The helicopter departed Aberdeen Airport at 1742 hrs on a scheduled flight to the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP).&#160;The flight... ]]></description>
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<title>Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ From Monday 12 September 2011, statutory reporting to HSE of work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will move to a predominantly online system.&#160; &#160; Revised online forms will make the reporting process quick and easy.&#160;... ]]></description>
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<title>Helicopter Safety Steering Group considers the report into 2009 fatal North Sea helicopter crash</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The HSSG has met to review the recommendations made in the Air Accidents InvestigationBranch (AAIB) report into the tragic crash of helicopter Flight 85N - which took place off theAberdeenshire coast on 1 April 2009 - and consider how lessons can be learned to prevent... ]]></description>
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<title>The Search Begins for Oil and Gas Safety Innovators</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Nominations are open for the 2012 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards. This year, the Industry Safety Awards promises to be bigger and better than ever before, with the addition of a new cash prize category and a new venue to cater for the... ]]></description>
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<title>Seminar to focus on tackling hydrocarbon releases</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A&#160;special seminar dedicated to hydrocarbon releases is to be held to showcase the work which has been done across the industry in the last year to tackle the issue and profile the work which is ongoing. Tackling hydrocarbon releases &#8211; potential precursors to major incidents... ]]></description>
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<title>Helicopter awareness courses for safety reps to continue</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The popular Helicopter Safety Awareness Courses for Safety Representatives are to continue in 2012. Step Change's Helicopter Safety Steering Group has given its support to continue these well received courses, which are open to offshore safety representatives and other personnel who would like to find... ]]></description>
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<title>New guidance published for Operational Risk Assessment</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ New guidance on Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) is now available as a free download on the Oil &amp; Gas UK website. The document provides guidance on operational risk assessment as part of a managed and effective response to impaired safety-critical elements or other abnormal operational... ]]></description>
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<title>Demand Forces Extension to Deadline for UK Offshore Safety Awards</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Step Change in Safety and Oil &amp; Gas UK have decided to extend the deadline for all potential entrants to the UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards to 5pm on Friday 17 February, after a number of companies asked for extra time to submit... ]]></description>
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