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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: 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.
Piper Alpha: Challenge for industry to learn lessons from tragedy
The safety case, involvement of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the goal-setting regime has stood the UK CS oil and gas industry in good stead from a health and safety perspective since Piper Alpha.
Piper Alpha: Why we must never forget its lessons
Three questions dominated our thoughts: Who was on the platform, were they still alive and what had gone so terribly wrong?
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.
Offshore safety is key to longevity of Scotland’s energy industry
The lasting legacy of Piper Alpha is a safer, though always hazardous, industry, writes Fergus Ewing.
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.
25 years after Piper Alpha, are we taking a backward step?
It is ironic that just as we are approaching the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster when 167 men lost their lives and many were seriously injured, the Government has made a change which will remove the right to claim compensation based on breach of, among others, the very health and safety regulations introduced following Lord Cullen's report into Piper Alpha.
Piper 25: Taking stock for the future
Few will need to be reminded that next month marks the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. As the world's worst offshore incident, it claimed the lives of 167 men and cast a dark shadow over everyone and everything connected to oil and gas for a long time afterwards.
Jeremy Cresswell: Piper Alpha and the generation gap
It might seem odd choosing this issue of Energy to mark the 25th year since the Piper Alpha disaster of July 6, 1988, but we have taken our cue from the North Sea industry's three-day Piper25 conference on June 18-20.
Pursuit of North Sea safety the best way to honour Lord Cullen’s work
Think of safety, remember Piper Alpha. Lord Cullen's groundbreaking report laid the foundation for a new era of safety in the oil and gas industry.
Lord Cullen to discuss offshore safety progress
Piper Alpha inquiry chairman Lord Cullen is to discuss safety challenges facing oil and gas leaders at an event this summer.
Piper Alpha victims’ lawyers warn oil firms of new disaster
LAWYERS who represented the victims of Piper Alpha say oil firms need to do more to prevent a similar disaster striking again.
Piper Alpha disaster remembered
The minister who will lead the Piper Alpha commemorations said the pain of the disaster could be felt across an entire city.