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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Rig floor plate falls to production deck
The drill crew had completed cleaning the pollution pans and were in the process of installing the pollution pan covers (see Figure 1,…
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Pressure release after ice plug removal results in injury
A snubbing crew rigged up on location. Set-up operations were completed for the wellhead stabiliser, snubbing jack, catwalk, pipe racks,…
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Internal explosion ruptures mounted compensator piping
Two employees were in the derrick equalising the internal pressure between Composite Air Pressure Vessels (CAPV) on the Crown Mounted…
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Catastrophic failure of mud centrifuge
While processing drilling fluids, a mud centrifuge (Fig. 1) experienced a catastrophic failure resulting in the ejection of the pillow…
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Blind shear door blown off BOP body
During a high-pressure test of the Blow Out Preventer (BOP), one of the Blind Shear Ram (BSR) doors blew off the BOP body. The door was…
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Sudden ice plug release results in struck-by injury
While converting from air to mud, the employee was attempting to reinstall the pressure gauge on the standpipe manifold. When he removed…
