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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Confined space entry – tank cleaning
Incident 1: What happened - worker required CPR A worker was vacuuming, and the nozzle became stuck inside the tank. To free the nozzle,…
Hot work whilst working at height in a confined space – job was stopped
During a site visit to a vessel, it was observed that a third-party contractor’s welder was standing on the wooden platform (the actual…
Unauthorised entry into confined space
Planned repair works were taking place on a barge. The work involved hot work (welding & grinding). During the works, the stand-by…
Two dropped object incidents
Incident 1 – dropped metal wedge A pin was required to be pulled on a hinge system for the dynamic gangway system on a W2W (walk-to-work)…
Fall Protection – Defective Safety Harness
During equipment recovery operations on the back deck of a vessel, a technician felt something unexpected around the Dorsal ‘D’ ring on the…
Failure of self-righting frame on Fast Rescue Craft (FRC)
During a routine rescue drill the self-righting frame assembly fell off the Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) into the water while the FRC was…