LONDON — New offshore safety statistics have suggested that working in the industry is becoming safer. The figures revealed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on Wednesday show that the combined fatal and major injury rate and major hydrocarbon releases are at their lowest level since regulation of the industry began more than 20 [...]
SEATTTLE — A diver was critically injured Monday after having a problem underwater along the Seattle waterfront. Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen said the man was with a diving school group in the water at the Bell Street Marina and experienced some sort of problem while wearing a diving helmet. Other people in [...]
HALIFAX, NS — There have been 25 occurrence reports filed with Transport Canada since Jan. 1, 2006, involving the Sikorsky S-92A model helicopter that crashed in the North Atlantic last Thursday. All of the occurrences happened on board choppers owned by Cougar Helicopters during journeys to Newfoundland’s offshore oil platforms. Seventeen people died in [...]
SAFETY ALERT NO. 207: BROKEN DECK WINCH FOOTINGS Country: null Location: — Release Date: — Time incident occurred: — Type of Activity: Lifting, crane, rigging, deck operations Type of Injury: Struck by Function: null Applicabale Filter Categories: Struck by,Structural failure (offshore),System/Equipment failure A vessel had been fitted with two deck winches to assist [...]
Survival rates for people in Canadian helicopters that have crashed into water over the past three decades are the same as those around the world, a report published last year determined. There were 46 civilian helicopters registered in this country that ditched in water from 1979 to 2006, resulting in 27 deaths among the 124 [...]
Seamar, the well known provider of subsea construction and fabrication services to the domestic and international oil and gas industry operating in the Gulf of Mexico and some Latin American markets, has announced that the company’s 2008 year-end total recordable incident rate, or TRIR, of 0.8. After posting a fourth quarter TRIR of 0.0, Seamar’s cumulative TRIR [...]
Advance notice of proposed rulemaking. CFR Part: “46 CFR Part 197″ RIN Number: “RIN 1625-AA21″ Citation: “74 FR 414″ Document Number: “USCG-1998-3786″ Federal Register Page Number: “414″
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