Commemorating Piper Alpha: 36 years of learning and progress in offshore safety
June 27, 2024
Fieldfisher’s Health & Safety team revisit the context and key learnings from the Piper Alpha disaster, underscoring the ongoing importance of ensuring the safety and wellbeing of workers across all industries. Read More
Company fined after a worker falls from height when platform collapses
March 11, 2022
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…
March 31, 2021
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
May 29, 2020
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
June 28, 2019
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
May 22, 2019
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
April 18, 2019
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
December 4, 2018
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
September 5, 2018
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
August 6, 2018
Shell UK Limited has been fined 60k for health and safety breaches on the Brent Delta offshore installation. Read More