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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High Value Learning - Gas leak from perforated closed drains line to to simultaneous operations
A 2” closed drain line was subject to bristle blasting in order to allow further inspection & fabric maintenance. Before work…
Alert
Lifeboat Battery Explosion
Following the charging and completion of voltage checks, the battery compartment hatch was closed, and the engine was then started. At this…
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High Value Learning - Failure of cable connector during drill-line de-reeving
A drilling maintenance crew were performing the operation to de-reeve a 1 3/8” steel drill line. This was part of a planned drill line cut…
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High Value Learning - Hydraulic over torqueing of bolted joint equipment
Two incidents have occurred during the hydraulic torqueing of bolted joints on assets operated by two different operators in the UKCS. In…
Moment
What lies beneath?
A number of months after the PDO was reported, a member of the crew noticed a lot of insulation and cladding debris on a walkway. Upon…
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High Value Learning - Facility emergency response capability unexpectedly impacted by power outage
A power outage occurred after maintenance activities on a safety instrumented system on an offshore oil & gas production facility that…