Employees of energy-service group Stork Technical Services celebrated exceptional safety performance at an awards ceremony and dinner in Aberdeen last night.
The Dutch company’s Granite City-based operation, previously known as RBG, held its second annual Reach Safety Awards at Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Around 90 industry leaders and guests from around the world were there to toast the achievements of workers who exceeded the minimum safety requirements of Stork’s Reach programme during 2011.
The guest speaker was Jennifer Deeney, who has devoted her time to making people’s working lives safer since her construction worker husband, Kieron, was killed in an industrial accident.
Stork’s Reach programme was launched by RBG in December 2009 with the aim of creating a stronger, safer culture among the workforce.
John Long, who developed a colour code scheme for an open drain system, was last night named safety representative of the year for his proactive safety leadership and communication skills.
Scaffolder Gordon Hamilton came away with the most promising individual award in recognition of his work to improve safety on Talisman UK’s Clyde platform in the North Sea and supervisor Phil Wilcox won the incident prevention award after his vigilance stopped a potential accident.
Stork’s safety leadership award was jointly won by supervisors Brian Thain and Ian Walker and specialist cleaning manager Steven Milligan, while the best safety accolade recognised Stork’s BP pipelines operations unit in Azerbaijan and also the firm’s Shenzi water injection squad in the Gulf of Mexico.
Stork’s Janice Alpha diving unit, contracted by Maersk Oil, won the best-team-of-the-year award.
Mike Mann, Stork’s senior vice-president, global health, safety, security, environment and quality, said: “We can be proud of what we have achieved during this past year.”