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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Collapsed winch drum
The crane winch drum barrel boss was being replaced. The winch drum had been removed from the boom hoist winch and positioned on the deck.…
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BSEE Alert – 399 Grating failures cause a fatality and a serious near miss
During a planned maintenance and construction outage on a production platform on May 16, 2020, a contractor working on the casing deck…
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BSEE Alert – 400: Trapped Pressure Ejects Rod From Chamber and Strikes Subsea Technician in the Face
During blow-out preventer equipment pressure testing operations, a subsea technician sustained an injury while removing the Hands-Free…
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Uncontrolled decent of crane boom
The operation involved offloading 9 5/8” casing from a supply vessel to the rig’s cantilever deck. The crew was utilising a main deck…
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Crewman caught in the line of fire while using riser torque wrench
During pulling of the Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) assembly, crewmen were working on the spider platform removing the eight riser…
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Health and Safety Executive Safety Alert - Failure to detect dangerous gas/vapour due to incorrect specification of sample tube
This safety alert highlights the risk of misleading gas detection readings associated with the use of sampling tubes with pumped gas…
