More can be done to improve safety
Step Change in Safety has called on the oil and gas industry to continue improving its safety performance.
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Squaring up to the North Sea decommissioning challenge
Oil & Gas UK is working to ensure that decommissioning of the UK's oil&gas infrastructure is carried out in the safest, most efficient and cost-effective manner, with key issues to be debated at a two-day conference next month.
Aberdeen firm hooks US accolade at OTC
A SMALL Aberdeen company has won a top award at OTC, which it hopes will lead to a major boost for sales.
Offshore staff will be encouraged to blow whistle over safety fears
Offshore workers will be encouraged to "blow the whistle" and raise safety fears on offshore oil and gas platforms and drilling rigs under new rules revealed yesterday.
Piper Alpha: 20 years on and the laws on safety keep evolving
As the North Sea industry marks the 20-year anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, it seems fitting to take stock of the resultant changes, and in particular to note raised awareness of health and safety issues and ask whether all lessons may have been fully learned?
Corporate manslaughter act HSE milestone
Our oil industry is high value, high risk. When the UK's Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007 comes into force next month, it is expected to herald the start of a new era in the world of health and safety prosecutions.