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Preventing incidents and injuries across the energy industry

Step Change in Safety is a member-led organisation which works to prevent incidents and injuries across the energy industry through active leadership, member collaboration and workforce engagement.

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Prevention of Major Accidents

A good understanding of MAHs is key to maintaining safe operations. How these hazards are managed can help prevent major incidents and ultimately save lives.

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Prevention of Personal Injury

By understanding hazards at site, the harm they cause can cause us, and how we can control them can prevent injuries to ourselves and colleagues.

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Safe Lifting, Working at Height and Preventing Dropped Objects

Thorough planning & hazard identification for lifting operations, working at height, & preventing potential dropped objects allows hazards to be safely managed.

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Wellbeing and Work Environment

Managing our physical and mental wellbeing, and the hazards associated with our work environment, is essential to keeping us safe in the short and longer terms.

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About Us

Playing Our Part in the energy industry since 1997

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Prevention
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ESS Wellness Magazine: Autumn 2026

The autumn edition of ESS’s Wellness Magazine shares practical advice on nutrition, mental health, financial wellbeing and community connection, supporting wellbeing at work and home.

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Trip injury over protrusion on grating

During housekeeping for scaffold erection, a worker turned within the work area and tripped over a steel kick plate protruding through deck grating.The worker reported lower-back pain and received treatment from the installation medic.FindingsThe protrusion was a known infrastructure hazard retained…

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Safer Together: Drilling/completing a well - person in the line of fire

What Happened?During a hydraulic fracturing operation, while pumping the 11th stage of the frac at a rate of 86 BPM (Barrels Per Minute) at 11,300 PSI, an iron failure occurred on a 3-inch threaded 1502 connection that is part of a spring-loaded Pressure Relief Valve (PRV) on the frac manifold. Upon…

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Energy Safety Canada: Smoke in a motor controls centre - Internal failure of a variable Frequency Drive

 A variable frequency drive failed inside the motor control centre (MCC) at a facility, filling the MCC building with smoke. The plant shut down on emergency shutdown (ESD). No one was injured, and no one entered the building while it was smoke filled. This alert explains how this hazard works and w…

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