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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Uncontrolled Descent - Near Miss
Prior to lifting a hydraulic control unit, it was observed that the saddle and Blow out Preventer Control hose arrangement would obstruct…
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Safety Lanyard caught by rotating Cathead
Run in hole (RIH) drill pipe operation was taking place. The driller asked one of the floorman (IP) to clean the roof window, the floorman…
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Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) exposure - Lost time incident
An operator had to leave work after feeling unwell. He went to hospital where he was diagnosed with pulmonary oedema (fluid on the lung).…
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Three-Way Valve Incident - ejected stem during changeout of Duplex Filter
Operation technicians were attempting to change filter banks by operating a three way valve. In act of trying to “loosen” the valve, the…
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High Value Learning - Gas release from newly completed well
When a newly completed well was restarted after a 7-day shut down the O-ring in the tree cap failed, resulting in a gas release and a full…
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Gas release due to the failure of an incorrect seal ring material installed on a Clamp Connector resulting in galvanic corrosion
A gas release occurred on a normally unmanned installation (NUI). On investigation the release was coming from a proprietary size 52 clamp…