Articles

NOPSEMA is Taking Action and Providing Assistance on COVID-19 Articles • March 2020 NOPSEMA has endorsed a new compliance strategy for effectively regulating the offshore industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have also provided interim guidance to encourage consistent practice across industry.

What Did the Chain of Responsibility Survey Tell Us? Articles • March 2020 96 member companies and non-member stakeholders responded to our recent Chain of Responsibility (CoR) survey. We learnt about areas of our Industry with a high level of awareness about CoR requirements. We learnt about areas where the awareness is not so high. We also learnt about the main influencer of behaviour when it comes to CoR requirements.

Safer Together LUEZ & Spotting Guideline is Published Articles • March 2020 The Land Logistics Working Group has published the new LUEZ & Spotting Guideline and supporting materials. The guidance has been 'road tested' and found to be useful by both operators and contractors alike.

Assist and Assure is Now Available Articles • March 2020 The Qld Rig Site Safety Working Group are delighted to announce the launch of their flagship project, Assist and Assure. It is now available to all member companies.

DCIIRP #19 “Visible Leadership – People Care How Much You Know, Once They Know How Much You Care” Articles • March 2020 The Safer Together Rig Site Safety Working Group recently held its 19th Drilling and Completions Industry Incident Review Panel (DCIIRP) hosted by Santos and Ensign. More than 80 people attended the event to hear about safety incidents and innovations, and to share lessons learnt. The organiser, co-host and MC for the event was Glenn Watt, General Manager Onshore Drilling and Completions, Santos & RSSWG Chair.

Reflections on Texas City Articles • March 2020 Monday 23 March 2020 marked the 15th anniversary of the BP Texas City Refinery incident in the USA. At 1.20pm on 23 March 2005, catastrophic explosions and fires destroyed a large area of the refinery claiming the lives of 15 people and injuring 180 others. This incident was one of the worst industrial disasters in our industry in recent history.

How to Use Our Sharing Library to Help You Respond to COVID-19 Articles • March 2020 We’ve published a “How To” Guide to help you use our COVID-19 Sharing Library.

New and Improved Learning Event Bulletins Articles • March 2020 Member feedback indicates that Learning Event Bulletins are a valuable tool for learning from unwanted events and/or threats in order to reduce the recurrence of high potential incidents. However, feedback also indicates that we can do even better. So we have updated the Bulletin format, and improved the processes for creating these important sharing and learning tools.

Keeping Decks Safe Articles • February 2020 Activities on the back decks of vessels in our industry are often separately controlled (e.g. by the vessel, operations or other parties). Having essential controls and interactions in place between separately controlled activities is vital to provide for a minimum level of risk to deck operators on offshore vessels.

Regional Workshops for Fitness to Work Articles • February 2020 Want to hear more about the work of the Fitness to Work Project Team? Want to have your say? Did you miss the Workshops conducted in Brisbane late last year? Don't despair. The Fitness to Work Project Team will run consultation workshops in Toowoomba and Roma to hear from people in the regions. Read on to find out more.