Shutdown/TAR Season
To help our industry achieve a safe shutdown season, the network has compiled a list of considerations for duty holders
The purpose of the Site Managers Network is to support and influence the Step Change in Safety agenda by:
- Providing strategic input and relevance from a high hazard worksite leadership viewpoint
- Supporting safety reps by facilitating engagement sessions between them and their constituents
- Provide support to existing workgroups as a high hazard worksite leader and their SME knowledge
- Providing critical input to workgroups during scoping and pre-publication
- Develop increased understanding and knowledge of existing Step Change in Safety Leadership Team offerings
- Creating high hazard worksite influencers/enablers resulting in improved workforce support and uptake
- Championing and encouraging Safety Leadership
- Creating an industry network for high hazard worksite managers where sharing and learning can be done in a “safe space”
Join the Site Manager Network
If you are a site manager of a high hazard worksite, employed by a member company and wish to join the network, please contact alan.mcintyre@stepchangeinsafety.net for more details
OIM Guidance for Offshore Rotas and Rest Periods
This document explains the limits on the number of days that can be worked offshore depending on shift rotation.
Safety Rep Essentials: OIM, site manager & supervisory responsibilities
Safety Rep Essentials OIM - Site Manager & Supervisory Responsibilities & Guidance
OIM Safety Surveys (historical)
OIM Safety Surveys of 1998 and 2002.
NETWORK LEADERSHIP
- Dale Checksfield LL.M, Master Mariner, PG.Dip
- OIM
- Harbour Energy
A qualified Master Mariner, Dale moved into the offshore industry in 2010. During his seagoing career, spent mostly with the Ministry of Defence, he deployed on operations world-wide including humanitarian operations in Mozambique and the Caribbean, saw service in a number of conflict zones and became the first UK exchange officer to serve afloat with the US Military Sealift Command. Graduating from the Joint Services Command and Staff College Shrivenham, he completed a senior leadership appointment in Navy Command Headquarters, where he was responsible for Navigation and Seamanship policy, training and standards, before moving into the private sector, initially within commercial ship management.
Commencing his offshore experience on a floating asset West of Shetland as contract marine operator, he quickly secured a permanent role, moving to the Central North Sea. Having passed the Shell OIM selection panel, was promoted to OIM of an FPSO, delivering a return to class registration and operational improvement programme which extended field life and returned significant OPEX reductions and performance improvements gaining recognition in Shells global production awards in the “Effective People” category. In the following years, Dale has undertaken a number of roles including an onshore secondment in a programme management role and, through 2019-20, held responsibility for managing Harbour Energy’s response to COVID-19 as Business Continuity Team Lead.
Currently an Offshore Installation Manager on one of Harbour Energy’s fixed assets in the central north sea, Dale holds a Master of Laws in Oil and Gas Law with Professional Skills from the University of Aberdeen, a QCF Level 7 qualification in Strategic Management & Leadership and a Post Graduate Diploma (Distinction) in Applied Navigation. Outside of the “day job”, Dale has held executive level and national board roles in the public sector on a volunteer basis and provides pro-bono consultancy to a number of public sector organisations in volunteer management, operational risk management and maritime policy.
- Doug Seivwright IEng MIMechE
- OIM
- Petrofac
Doug Seivwright is an Offshore Installation Manager on Jade Platform, Offshore Equatorial Guinea.
He has 25 years’ experience offshore in major projects, combined operations (ComOps), commissioning and operations on both new and brownfield offshore facilities in the Oil and Gas Industry, North Sea and International.
Aberdeen-born Doug has worked offshore in the Oil and Gas industry since 2000. His offshore career began as an apprentice Mechanical Technician with the ECITB/NASEC Technician Training Scheme onboard the Tiffany Platform. He then moved through various positions offshore to his current role of Offshore Installation Manager on the Jade Platform.
OIM Network Updates
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New Safety Policy – Safe Weight Limit
Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) has announced that a new Safe Weight Limit policy will come into effect from 1 November 2026.
New Safety Leadership Development Programme Launched in Collaboration with Member Organisations
For Site Managers & Supervisors in high-hazard environments, this programme builds leadership, coaching, and communication skills for safer, high-impact teams.