Step Change in Safety is committed to working with the UK oil and gas industry to continually improve safety and make the UKCS the safest oil and gas province in the world in which to work.
An essential part of that mission is learning from previous experiences through collaboration. Our searchable catalogue of hundreds of Safety Alerts and Safety Moments are all designed as learning resources that can help improve workplace safety. All contributions remain anonymous to encourage sharing within the industry. No company names, platforms, fields, locations, dates and individuals are referred to in our Safety Alerts and Moments.
Safety Alerts give details of events surrounding an incident or near miss and provide good practice guidance in order to prevent similar issues. Safety Moments are downloadable PowerPoint presentations detailing an incident, near miss or good practice, and which provide discussion points and related resources for use as learning tools.
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High personal H2S monitor reading during priming of gas compressor lube oil pump
Prior to starting the gas compressor, the lube oil pump required to be primed by bleeding the pump via a vent valve. As the Operator was…
Small bore tubing connection failure
When bringing a new well online a section of instrument tubing parted from an instrument block and bleed valve on a pressure transmitter…
IP struck by water from fire monitor
A power outage and low instrument air pressure set off an oscillating fire monitor, filling the deck drains. Technicians attempted to…
Collapsed winch drum
The crane winch drum barrel boss was being replaced. The winch drum had been removed from the boom hoist winch and positioned on the deck.…
BSEE Alert – 399 Grating failures cause a fatality and a serious near miss
During a planned maintenance and construction outage on a production platform on May 16, 2020, a contractor working on the casing deck…
BSEE Alert – 400: Trapped Pressure Ejects Rod From Chamber and Strikes Subsea Technician in the Face
During blow-out preventer equipment pressure testing operations, a subsea technician sustained an injury while removing the Hands-Free…