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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Unplanned Hydrocarbon Release Following Internal Erosion of Choke Valve
No personnel were working, or transiting through the area at time of release, which was subsequently calculated at 28.5kg. A full muster…
Lifeboat manual winch crank handle
During routine maintenance, it was found that the manual winch crank handle of the lifeboat was misaligned due to a bent stowage bracket…
Teflon pad dropped from crane
After completing lifts with the forward crane, the crane operator stowed the crane boom in its cradle. The crane operator observed one of…
Nike Adapt Footwear
During a security x-ray baggage search, the operator observed electronic equipment in a passengers footwear. The footwear was removed and…
High levels of CH4 at shakers during well test operations
After the well test, the rig was killing the well by reverse circulating out the completion fluid and displacing the well to oil based mud…
Release of compressive load in volute spring resulting in injury
This actuators assembly is a discrete unit which contains a pre-compressed volute spring which enables the valve to operate as failsafe.…