WIRELINE - Autumn 2017

News Round-Up | Oil & Gas UK

Innovation in Safety, sponsored by Bureau Veritas

Peterson scooped this award for its range of interconnected digital tools that allow safety and operational data for logistics management to be captured and analysed in tandem. Since developing and deploying the tools, the company has noted a 29 per cent reduction in forklift truck incidents in 2017 compared to 2016. Its eCargo app is used to digitise quayside operations and has built-in safety controls that prompt users to carry out specific checks before proceeding to the next task. It also has an incident data capture tool, providing its customers with real-time information and analytics. The team on DSV Bibby Topaz has been instrumental in enhancing Bibby Offshore’s Safety Leadership in Action programme. They were the only worksite to achieve a 100 per cent response rate to a company workforce survey that prompted a number of changes. A member of senior management now acts as a vessel sponsor who goes offshore to have face-to-face conversations with the workforce so that issues raised at the site are addressed in a timely manner. Vessel safety champions are also now in place to raise concerns on behalf of staff and forums are held to allow individuals to discuss matters openly. Centrica’s Asset Integrity DROPS Campaign Team has helped to improve the working environment and level of personal safety on the company’s normally unmanned installations, boosting morale and the team’s sense of pride in their work. The team, which is made up of individuals from four different companies, acts as a fast-response unit to address damage or wear to jacket structures/topsides that are nearing the end of their design life. They are often able to carry out this work within a few days or even hours. This ‘one team’ approach embraced by employers from different organisations has now been replicated at two other offshore facilities in the South Morecambe area. Workforce Engagement, sponsored by Halliburton Operational Integrity, sponsored by Aker Solutions Sharing and Learning, sponsored by Centrica BP’s North Sea Aviation Team has developed, created and shared an animation to demonstrate the effects and dangers of helicopter downdraft (the unintentional movement of objects on offshore installations). The aim is to increase workforce understanding and illustrate how the effects can be managed. The animation, which was rolled out across all North Sea platforms in the fourth quarter of 2016, is now being shared globally. It was posted on YouTube in March 2017 and has since had over 16,000 views.

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