oil and gas


Company fined after a worker falls from height when platform collapses

A civil engineering company has been sentenced after a worker suffered life threatening injuries after falling 15 metres when a platform he was working on unexpectedly collapsed. Read More

Sex and the safety message…

Tim Marsh revisits an old article of his and asks, is it better to risk offending the few to get an important message over to the many? Or is there a bigger picture that renders such short-term concerns irrelevant? Read More

£1.2m fine for oil company after workers suffer multiple burns

Oil refinery company, Phillips 66 Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after two workers suffered life-changing injuries from an uncontrolled release of high pressure and high temperature steam. Read More

Hundreds of BP employees to study new NEBOSH qualifications

BP, the British multinational oil and gas company, has chosen to partner with NEBOSH in the development of two new bespoke qualifications for its employees. Read More

Oil firm fined more than £1m after gas blast

Marathon Oil UK LLC (Marathon) has been fined £1,168,000 following the release of a high-pressure gas on its Brae Alpha offshore platform in 2015. Read More

Implementing successful health and safety initiatives in the manufacturing sector

Advanced Insulation won the Health and Safety Award at the recent Make UK (formally EEF) Future Manufacturing Awards. SHP caught up with Dan Howell, Group QHSE Manager to find out what helped the company stand out for the judges. Read More

Drill rig induction scheme introduced to improve safety

The scheme has been introduced across all of SOCOTEC’s ground investigation projects to ensure everyone working within the vicinity of a drill rig is given a rig induction. Read More

Using the Hudson Ladder in the context of health culture

Is the Hudson Framework suitable for health culture? David Day, Head of SHE at nuclear specialist Nuvia UK, talks about why he has selected a particular cultural model as the basis to develop a health culture assessment tool. Read More

Shell fined after worker severely injured when hit by cylinder

Shell UK Limited has been fined 60k for health and safety breaches on the Brent Delta offshore installation. Read More

HSE ‘satisfied’ over North Sea pipeline repair – but investigation ongoing

Crack discovered in December caused production across more than 80 oilfields to be disrupted. Read More



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