Process Safety Solutions (PSS) has taken steps to improve recovery times following a shutdown with the addition of Process Alarm Live Logging and Analysis Software (PALLAS) to its Process Safety Management Suite (PSMS).
There have been significant improvements in workforce safety in the UKCS sector of the oil and gas industry since its inception over 50 years ago. The industry can point to a combination of technical advances, procedural improvements and a maturing safety culture to explain this improvement.
Environmental activists boarded a Seadrill rig yesterday at a Norwegian yard in protest at the country’s plans for an Arctic exploration campaign in the Barents Sea.
A North Sea union warned last night that the safety of offshore workers could be put at risk by a health and safety restructure - just months before the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
The project was launched just days after the Press and Journal revealed that some oil companies were asking employees to diet to free up more space on helicopters.
Oil and gas skills body Opito said yesterday it was studying the competency of offshore installation managers (OIMs) and the effects of potential competence gaps on safety offshore.
OVERWEIGHT oil workers at two of the North Sea’s biggest firms are being asked to go on a diet – because they are taking up too much space on helicopters.
An oil company boss has warned a shortage of experienced staff is jeopardising the North Sea's world-leading safety standards as the sector prepares for its biggest boom for 30 years.