HSE warns North Sea firms after Apache enforcement notice
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging North Sea operators to pay closer attention to offshore safety after issuing a warning to Apache.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging North Sea operators to pay closer attention to offshore safety after issuing a warning to Apache.
In May 2022, the Health & Safety Executive (“HSE”) published its 10-year strategy setting out its vision, core values, and strategic objectives until 2032.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned Ithaca Energy (LON: ITH) that flaws with how it manages the ballast systems on its FPF1 installation put workers “at the risk of serious personal injury or death”.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has raised concerns that Dana Petroleum is making insufficient inspections of the fire suppression system of its Triton floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
Union officials liken offshore wind to "the Wild West" and call for industry specific safety reforms.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning over the safety of gangways used to connect service vessels to offshore wind turbines.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has reprimanded North Sea operator Repsol Resources UK for failing to secure effective emergency response measures at its Fulmar A platform.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a notice to offshore and onshore wind developers after a turbine technician was injured by a service lift.
Repsol has been told to clean up its act over poor toilet facilities on its Arbroath platform which have been “in desperate need of replacing” since 2020.
Step Change in Safety is set to launch its Process Safety Workforce Survey during an Aberdeen event.
“I think we’re definitely across the start line but we've still got a pretty good race to run,” IADC's North Sea boss says
Training and skills organisation OPITO has launched a new training standard which aims to reduce incidents in the safety zones around offshore installations.
Ineos has been hit with a £400,000 fine after a worker received "severe" burn injuries from falling into a chemical pit at its Grangemouth refinery.
Offshore painters could be at risk of breaching health and safety rules due to their beards, the watchdog has warned.
Watchdog also warned operators they "cannot contract out" their legal HSE obligations.
The Ocean GreatWhite was working for BP around 125 miles west of the Shetland Islands.
The UK safety regulator has warned CNOOC over its inspection routines for process equipment on board the North Sea’s Buzzard platform.
Safety regulators have put Petrofac on notice after it found poor assessments left offshore workers on the Kittiwake platform at risk of exposure to hazardous fumes.
Meanwhile, maintenance topped the list of more than 1,000 "non-compliance issues" in HSE's annual report.
Drilling company Valaris (NYSE: VAL) has been fined £130,000 by an Aberdeen court following a North Sea crane boom collapse in 2016.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued an improvement notice to North Sea operator Apache over its failure to properly maintain supports to the flaring system on its Beryl hub.
Offshore medevacs are meanwhile at their highest level in five years.
Martin Hill, then 63, narrowly avoided having both feet amputated.
Ithaca Energy, TAQA and Apache installations named in HSE documents.
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