Piper 25: Industry must turn words into actions to ensure safety standards continue
Hundreds of delegates at Piper 25 were urged to turn words into action yesterday as the conference commemorating observing the Piper Alpha disaster drew to a close.
Health, Safety & Environment
Survivex shows off new firefighting site
Offshore survival specialist Survivex opened its £1.5million fire training centre with an event for clients yesterday.
Video: Offshore safety starts with senior management, warns Bresland
Safety processes at energy companies must start with top-level management, a senior industry expert has warned.
Piper 25: Workers should ‘take chance to raise worries’, conference told
Offshore workers should take every opportunity to raise concerns they may have over safety, according to a Piper Alpha survivor.
Video: Piper Alpha survivor relives his escape
A Piper Alpha survivor has told how he could not resist returning to the rigs - despite the tragic events that saw 167 people killed.
Video: Support for Step Change in Safety at Piper 25
The UK’s potential to become the safest oil and gas sector in the world is second to none, thanks to its unique safety partnership, a senior industry figure has claimed.
Piper 25: New safety principles for BP following Macondo disaster
A senior boss at BP told Piper 25 delegates about the root and branch changes the oil major had made in safety management since the 2010 Macondo disaster.
Piper 25: Safety is not a ‘bumper sticker’, Lord Cullen warns offshore industry
The man who led the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has told a conference looking at offshore safety that companies must view the bigger picture in protecting staff.
Video: Controversial structural changes will benefit energy industry, says HSE
Changes to the structure of the Health and Safety Executive should have been communicated better, the organisation's chair has admitted.
Video: Lord Cullen, Judith Hackitt and Jake Molloy at Piper 25
As the Piper 25 conference gets underway in Aberdeen, we hear from key speakers addressing the improvement in offshore safety over the last quarter of a century.
Piper 25: Offshore workers still scared to raise safety concerns, warns union
[free] North Sea leaders today paid tribute in Aberdeen to the 167 people who died in the Piper Alpha tragedy, as union bosses raised fears that workers are still scared to raise safety issues.
DNV launch new training course for safety representatives
Det Norske Veritas is to launch new training courses for elected safety representatives aimed at minimising the number of accidents offshore.
Time to focus on offshore workers’ health as well as safety, warns catering boss
A call was today made to ensure health does not become the “poor relation” in health and safety.
Nominations invited for global oil and gas safety awards
Energy industry firms and training providers have been invited to submit nominations for OPITO's safety and competency annual awards.
Scottish Government pledges £100,000 to Piper Alpha charity
The Scottish Government has pledged £100,000 to help restore a memorial to the victims of the Piper Alpha disaster to its former glory.
Two dead, one injured after accident on gas platform off Netherlands
Two people have died and a man injured after a heat exchanger accident on a North Sea gas platform off the coast of the Netherlands.
Piper 25: Industry must continue working together to eliminate risk, says DNV
Risk management specialists Det Norske Vertias has urged the global oil and gas industry to strengthen its focus on safety risk analysis ahead of the Piper 25 conference.
Piper Alpha inquiry judge Lord Cullen recalls boarding platform after disaster
The judge who chaired the inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster has recalled the harrowing moment he stepped aboard the wreckage of the platform.
UK offshore industry ‘one of safest’, says new report
Oil and gas safety leaders have paid tribute to efforts to keep offshore workers safe in the past year after it emerged as one of the UK's safest industries.
US Coastguard ends clean-up for three states hit by Macondo disaster
The US coastguard is to finally end the cleanup efforts from the Deepwater Horizon disaster along the Florida, Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week - 38 months after the worst offshore oil spill in American history.
New safety standard for DNV
DNV has re-written the standard for Offshore Service Modules certification to cover a wider range of temporary equipment on top of the existing pressurised modules for temporary workspaces.
Nine in 10 oil workers ‘don’t trust EC225s after ditchings’, survey finds
Nearly nine out of 10 offshore workers have lost confidence in the model of helicopter involved in two North Sea ditchings last year.
DECC fails to hit post-Macondo offshore checks goal due to people shortages
The 2010 Macondo spill in the Gulf of Mexico threw into relief once again the risks of extracting hydrocarbons from the earth.
Video: HSE rounds on Offshore Safety Division critics
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has hit back at claims its unexpected shake-up of the offshore safety division will impact on North Sea safety.
Union warns Eurocopter has ‘jumped the gun’ over Super Puma return
An offshore workers' union claims a helicopter manufacturer has "jumped the gun" by announcing a fleet of grounded aircraft could return to service by July.