Offshore & Marine Safety

Piper Alpha Offshore oil disaster July 6, 1988. Piper Alpha is an offshore oil and gas platform that suffered an explosion in July 1988, which is still regarded as the worst offshore oil disaster in the history of the UK. The accident killed 165 out of 226 crew members and two crew from the standby vessel Sandhaven. The accident was attributed mainly to human error and forced the offshore industry to pay more attention to safety issues. Property damage from the Piper Alpha explosion was estimated to be $1.4bn. The root cause of the Piper Alpha disaster was primarily an inappropriate permit to work system. On the night of the tragedy, workers reinstated and injected condensate fluid into a pump, not knowing a safety valve on another deck had been removed and replaced by a non-leak-proof disk. The high-pressure condensate flow leaked from the disk and soon ignited. The first explosion broke through a fire wall that was not fit to stand up to explosive events. This led to secondary explosions in the module neighboring the location of the initial leak. Rubber matting used by divers on a lower deck accumulated a pool fire which ultimately resulted in the devastating and irreversible damage of the fire ball that engulfed the platform at 22:20 on 6th July, 1988. From this point onward, the fate of the oil rig was sealed. © Verdict Media Limited 2021 © Offshore Technology © Smithsonian Channel ©The Piper Alpha Disaster: A Personal Perspective with Transferrable Lessons on the Long-Term Moral Impact of Safety Failures Marc Reid* ACS Chem. Health Saf. 2020, 27, 2, 88–95 Publication Date: February 19, 2020 © 2020 American Chemical Society

HUET stands for Helicopter Underwater Escape Training. The HUET abbreviation is the offshore industry standard for the type of training needed for personnel going to and from offshore facilities. HUET training is one of the fundamental courses working in the offshore industry. Thousands of workers and personnel travel to and from offshore sites every year. They each have to undergo HUET training. Offshore sites such as oil rigs will often only be accessible by helicopters. The commute includes taking off from and landing at facilities where a certain level of safety knowledge is required. All people who will travel to an offshore facility must have a BOSIET or FOET certificate. People going just once to an offshore site may only require HUET training. HUET training is focused on emergencies when travelling by helicopter and how to assess and act in high-risk situations. ©RelyOn Nutec.

Offshore Landing flying AW139 Helicopter✨🚁 #AW139 #OffshoreOperations #HelicopterPilot #SafetyFirst #AviationExcellence Credits: Capt Mohamed Helmy AW139 Captain | ICAO ATPL (H) & FAA CPL (H) (Offshore - VVIP - Medical Evacuation Operations)

🚢 Launch Announcement: The Life-Saving Appliances (LSA Code) - Updated Edition 2023 📘 The International Maitime Organisation has released the latest edition of the LSA Code. The LSA Code 2023 is an integral part of the SOLAS Convention, this edition is indispensable for maritime professionals. It includes detailed technical requirements for manufacturing, testing, maintenance, and record-keeping of life-saving appliances. This publication contains the three most important IMO instruments dealing with life-saving appliances, namely the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code, the Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances and the Code of Practice for Evaluation, Testing and Acceptance of Prototype Novel Life-Saving Appliances. It provides international requirements for the life-saving appliances required by chapter III of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, including personal life-saving appliances like ; lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids; visual aids, such as parachute flares, hand flares and buoyant smoke signals; survival craft, such as life rafts and lifeboats; rescue boats; launching and embarkation appliances and marine evacuation systems line throwing appliances; and general alarm and public address systems #MaritimeSafety #LSACode #MaritimeIndustry #IMO #SOLASConvention #IMOpublishing #Publications #MaritimeRegulations