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Thu 9th February
Step Change in Safety and Oil & 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...
Mon 30th January
New guidance on Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) is now available as a free download on the Oil & Gas UK website. The document provides guidance on operational risk assessment as part of a managed and...
Tue 24th January
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...
Tue 24th January
A 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...
Sun 8th January
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...
Thu 15th December
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...
Tue 20th September
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. Revised...
Wed 14th September
Prior to this Final Report, the AAIB published Special Bulletins on 24 March 2009 and 23 June 2009. Twenty-seven Safety Recommendations have been made. The helicopter departed Aberdeen Airport at 1742 hrs on a...
Tue 13th September
At a meeting of the HSE Board 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...
Mon 12th September
http://www.ret.gov.au/Department/Documents/MIR/Montara-Report.pdf In the early hours of 21 August 2009, a small ‘burp’ of oil and gas was reported as having escaped from the H1 Well at the Montara WHP. The oil and gas had travelled...