Step Change in Safety is committed to working with the UK oil and gas industry to continually improve safety and make the UKCS the safest oil and gas province in the world in which to work.
An essential part of that mission is learning from previous experiences through collaboration. Our searchable catalogue of hundreds of Safety Alerts and Safety Moments are all designed as learning resources that can help improve workplace safety. All contributions remain anonymous to encourage sharing within the industry. No company names, platforms, fields, locations, dates and individuals are referred to in our Safety Alerts and Moments.
Safety Alerts give details of events surrounding an incident or near miss and provide good practice guidance in order to prevent similar issues. Safety Moments are downloadable PowerPoint presentations detailing an incident, near miss or good practice, and which provide discussion points and related resources for use as learning tools.
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Burn to hand while working in laundry
The injured party (IP) was working in the laundry when they put their hand into a dryer (prior to running the cooling cycle) to check if…
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Blown Control Valve Cover
The pressure control valve was opened by connecting Pidgy tubing straight to the valve actuator from the platform instrument air supply.…
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Gas leak from a manual ball valve (adjacent to a grease injection channel)
During normal operations a gas leak was detected and traced to the failed valve. The plant was shut down and the valve was removed for…
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Near Miss - A "riveting" lessons learned
During the process of applying side liners to the PVC reels, the pneumatic rivet gun used to fasten the liners in place failed when the…
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Deadlegs: not just a hazard in football
The plant was made safe. An oil leak was traced to a ¼” diameter hole at the lower end of a pipework elbow. The line was rarely used and…
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Dropped object during cargo handling operations
During cargo handling operations a cargo carrying unit (CCU) was placed on the moving pipedeck where it was required to be unloaded. When…