Doedijns recently received a Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) certificate from Lloyd’s Register according to IEC 61508 standards for its complete series Compact Actuators. In recent years, the IEC 61508 standard has provided a more structured approach to both risk assessment and risk-reduction methods. A Safety Integrity Level 3 certificate contains the second highest [...]
Employees from Archer, the global oilfield service provider, received a total of five awards at the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) North Sea Chapter Safety Awards. The event took place at the Ardoe House Hotel, Aberdeen, on Friday 10th of May 2013. Archer won the coveted award for overall safety performance in 2012 in [...]
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Stork Technical Services won the ‘Associate Member’ prize at this year’s IADC North Sea Chapter (NSC) Annual Safety Awards. The award recognises an Associate members’ safety achievements over the past year which can include launching schemes to improve safety performance, technical or operational innovations which reduce risk or any notable safety achievements. The presentation, in [...]
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To avoid major accidents, safety barriers are critical to stop accident pathways before they become serious, and they need to be treated accordingly. This has to be reflected in operations and ideally in regulations. If not, safety barriers which often address rare events might lose the everyday battle for attention among all the safety and [...]
Stork Technical Services, the leading global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sectors, won two awards at this year’s UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards. Marc Brankin, Scaffold Chargehand for Stork won ‘The Most Promising Individual’ category for his exemplary attitude and behaviour towards offshore [...]
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ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc. (EMEPMI) recently presented awards to its employees and contractors in recognition of their safety excellence during 2012. “Safety is a value that governs everything we do — from our planning and facility construction, to our drills and emergency response exercises, to the way we operate the business every day. [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway today submitted a notification of order to BP in relation to the oil leak which occurred on the P platform at Ula Field in the southern section of the Norwegian part of the North Sea in September 2012. The oil safety watchdog requested BP to review its management system for the NCS with a [...]
Petrofac Offshore Projects & Operations’ (OPO) pioneering Control of Work e-learning programme has been recognised at the prestigious UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards. The OPO Control of Work team, responsible for delivering the bespoke, industry first training programme, won the ‘Ideas in Safety Prize’. The award recognises ‘the resourcefulness and creativity of individuals [...]
Bob Keiller, chief executive of Wood Group, has been confirmed as the after-dinner speaker at a major three-day conference to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. Sponsored by Chevron, the dinner will take place on Wednesday 19 June following the second day of the Piper 25 event. Keiller is a high profile [...]
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Fugro GEOS has had its approach to occupational safety and health recognised with a Silver award in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards, 2013. The scheme, run by the safety charity, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), dates back 57 years and is the largest and longest-running programme of its kind [...]
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