Oil and Gas UK and Step Change in Safety are calling for entries to the UK oil and gas industry’s first safety awards.
Robert Paterson, health, safety and employment issues director with trade organisation OGUK, said: “These awards are a fantastic opportunity for the workforce and companies to get recognition for outstanding safety behaviour.
“It is important that we share best-practice examples within the industry and there is no better way of doing this than giving best performers a platform to share their safety achievements with the wider industry.
“The awards ceremony provides an excellent framework for this.”
The categories are:
Award for Safety Leadership, sponsored by Chevron Upstream Europe.
Safety Representative of the Year, sponsored by Nexen Petroleum UK.
Award for Preventative Safety Action, sponsored by Nexen Petroleum UK.
Safety Award for the Most Promising Individual, sponsored by Draeger Safety UK.
Award for Innovation in Safety – Company Award, sponsored by ABB Engineering Services.
In addition, an award will be presented for services to safety, chosen by the Step Change in Safety chairmen, which recognises an outstanding contribution by an individual towards the initiative’s vision: to make the UK the safest place to work in the oil and gas industry worldwide.
The closing date for entries is Monday, February 8.
The lunchtime awards event, sponsored by Maersk Oil, will take place on Wednesday, April 21, in the Marcliffe Hotel, Aberdeen.
Winners will receive a UK Oil and Gas Industry safety medal made by sculptor and art medallist Marian Fountain. For details of the awards and how to enter visit www.oilandgas.org.uk/new/ features/safety_awards.cfm
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