The offshore environment is widely recognised as a dangerous workplace, and the exact number and types of related health hazards can be hard to comprehend – but not for the industry’s medical specialists.
As part of Oil & Gas UK’s medical curriculum, all registered medics have to undertake a one-day workshop – launched by the industry body four years ago – to ensure a unified approach to treating offshore workers.
“There is something like 60,000 Oil & Gas UK medicals done each year all around the world,” Dr Graham Furnace, Oil & Gas UK medical advisor and facilitator of the Doctors Training Workshop, told Energy Voice.
“While many of these doctors are well experienced in what they do, we certainly realised over the years that there is a need to try and ensure that all doctors have a common starting point for understanding the guidance and carrying out the medicals,”
“So from the beginning of 2011 onwards we introduced the idea that every doctor who wants to be on the registered list would have to come and do a one-day training workshop in Aberdeen.”
On top of theoretical teaching about the realities of offshore life and its health implications, participating doctors also get a first-hand experience of a helicopter ditching evacuation process – supervised by experienced instructors.
The next doctors workshop will take place on Thursday, March 27, with bookings available online.
To find out more, watch our video about the workshops below:
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