Alert 20 Jun 2024 Personnel exposed to hydrogen sulphide during maintenance Subcontractor personnel were exposed to a high concentration of Hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) for a short period during maintenance work in a vessel’s Well Treatment System (WTS) room. The incident occurred during annual maintenance work being conducted on the system's acid filter units. When the upper ve… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Carriage of Methanol - Dangerous Goods - without proper certification Methanol was being transported from place to place offshore, without appropriate Dangerous Goods certification. Methanol is very flammable. The incident occurred during the refuelling of a LIDAR buoy at an offshore wind farm. This involved carrying methanol cannisters on board a vessel, recovering t… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Dropped welding fume extraction hood During pipelay activities onboard a vessel, a welding fume extraction hood (which weighed 215kg) fell onto a work station below. A crew member working in the welding station was struck from behind by the extraction hood causing them to fall to the ground. If the person had been struck in a different… View Alert
Alert 20 Jun 2024 Swinging load after loss of position During backloading of an empty refrigerated container to a Pipe Supply Vessel (PSV), adverse weather conditions, combined with technical issues and the effect of high thrust wash, resulted in a loss of position of the PSV and an uncontrolled swinging load. There was no damage to equipment and no-one… View Alert
Learning Moment 20 Jun 2024 Prevention of Dropped Objects Did you know, dropped objects are 1 of the 3 most common causes of fatalities and serious injuries within many industrial sectors? The intention of this safety moment is to raise awareness of the hazards around dropped objects and how we can prevent them from occurring. Content: -Short video: Dropp… View Learning Moment
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Various Dropped Objects - Near Miss Incidents Three dropped object incidents were reported on assets. Although no personnel were harmed, such dropped objects have the potential to cause serious harm: Incident #1: A team of scaffolders were tasked with erecting scaffolding within the wellheads area of an offshore installation. As the team were p… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Loose Scaffold Board – Wrong Coupler The scaffolding team on a North Sea installation observed a loose scaffold board on a habitat roof. An intervention was made before any harm could be caused because of the work environment conditions, e.g. adverse weather. The Scaffolding Focal Point observed the incorrect single coupler for securi… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Finger Fracture During Manual Handling The scaffolding crew were tasked with dismantling a long-term scaffold structure. The task required scaffolding components to be passed from one individual to another. After being passed down a 4-metre ladder beam, the Injured Party (IP) carried the beam to the storage area then went to position th… View Alert
Alert 11 Jun 2024 Dropped Impact Gun A team of scaffolders were engaged in activities to enable the destruct of long-term scaffolding. As part of the work scope, a support scaffold was required for an exhaust. As the team were engaged in the erection of the support structure, a member of the work party inadvertently knocked an impact g… View Alert
Alert 10 Jun 2024 Unsecured Load A supply vessel was travelling back to port after receiving operational equipment from an offshore platform. While travelling back to port numerous loud bangs were heard coming from the main deck. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that the doors to the container carrying the wheeled base… View Alert
Alert 10 Jun 2024 Seal Assembly Retrieval Incident A drill string was in the wellbore with a recovery tool to pull the 18¾” seal assembly, which seals between the top of the 9⅝” casing and the 13⅜” casing in the subsea wellhead. Historically, on occasion, there has been difficulty engaging the seal assembly with the recovery tool due to debris on th… View Alert
Alert 7 Jun 2024 Dropped Borescope to Sea A work party consisting of rope access technicians were executing a decommissioning work scope on a North Sea installation that required the verification of a cut line and lateral restraint on a conductor. Rope Access Technician (RAT) #1 radioed for the camera and borescope to be sent down to him to… View Alert