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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Play your part in improving workplace safety. Browse our extensive catalogue of Safety Alerts and Moments to learn from the experiences of industry colleagues.
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Gas release from small bore fitting
•An intervention team arrived on a normally unattended installation (NUI) and heard an audible anomaly •On area visual inspection during…
Alert
Finger injury caused by opening of jetting unit door
The employee suffered an injury to the third finger on his left hand when opening the double doors on an ultra high pressure jetting unit.…
Alert
Partial load lost during road transit
On arrival at delivery location, pallets were unloaded. Later, it was discovered that a piece of equipment was missing and that this had…
Moment
In the line of fire (includes film clip)
During the lift, a caisson swung uncontrollably, crushing and breaking the pelvis of one of the load handlers.
High Value Learning
High Value Learning - Failure of a fire pump clutch, as a result of a gear box anti-rotation in failure
A failure of a diesel engine driven fire pump clutch occurred during routine pump start up. Clutch components were released at high speed…
Alert
Failure of Carbon Steel Piping due to Methanol Stress Corrosion Cracking
After approximately 18 months in service, a pinhole leak was observed on a carbon steel line from the methanol storage vessels to methanol…