Drilling and Completions Sector Sharing Engineering Solutions Articles • March 2025 All member companies at one time or another have developed and implemented an engineering solution. It might be in response to an incident or safety alert. It might be part of continual improvement – spotting a potential hazard and engineering a solution to isolate people from that hazard was the theme of our event in Brisbane.
Engineering Solutions Portal Launched! Articles • March 2025 A Rig Site Safety Working Group (RSSWG) Deep Dive project identified that most incident actions were administrative, and very few engineering controls were stipulated. The idea of a portal in which the Drilling and Completions (D&C) community could store and share engineering concepts to improve overall safety performance in the sector via our Engineering Solutions portal was born.
Fatigue Management Awareness e-Learn Articles • March 2025 Fatigue is an acute and / or ongoing state that leads to physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. Fatigue can not only impair a worker from functioning safely it can also have long-term health effects.
Quarter 2 Theme ‘Preventing Personal Injuries’ Articles • March 2025 Safer Together is a member-led organisation working together to prevent harm to our frontline workers. To do this, it is important that we understand hazards at site, the harm they can cause us, and how we can control them to prevent injuries to ourselves and colleagues.
A Focus: Process Safety Working Group Articles • March 2025 Working Groups are the engine room of Safer Together. They build our initiatives. Importantly, they also support companies right across our Industry to implement these initiatives. Champions for each Working Group are drawn from the Safety Leaders Group.
Assist and Assure Serving the Frontline Articles • March 2025 The number of Assist and Assure-trained frontline supervisors in our industry continues to grow as feedback overwhelmingly supports adoption of the initiative due to clear positive benefits in safety outcomes.
New Members & SLG Appointments Articles • March 2025 This month we have had some changes to both our WA/NT and Qld. Safety Leaders Groups (SLGs), and we have two new member companies.
Lunch & Learn: Fitness to Work – Medical Assessment Guideline Updates Articles • Learning Events • February 2025 Our Health Working Group has released Rev 2.0 of our Fitness to Work – Medical Assessment Guideline (FTW-MAG), and held a Lunch & Learn in Brisbane for both face-to-face and virtual delegates to advise our members and medical practitioners of the changes to the updated Guideline.
Land Transport IRP Considers Extreme Events Articles • February 2025 This month our Land Transport Working Group (LTWG) considered Extreme Events at their Land Transport Incident Review Panel in Brisbane.
Members Gather in Darwin to “Get Involved” Articles • February 2025 On 12th February we held a Member Engagement Evening with senior field leaders and key frontline leaders from the Safer Together community in the Northern Territory.
