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Welcome to the December 2006 Newsletter |
| Welcome to the second of our new style Step Change in Safety Newsletters. We are now almost at the end of a year that has seen record attendance at Step Change events, our first Boots on for Safety Campaign (developed from Canada's Safety Stand Down Week) and increasing interest from outside the UK and from non Oil and Gas industries particularly since the launch of the new web site. Thank you for those who have fed back issues on the site, you will see meetings, incident listings and, most recently, our email notifications have all been changed. Below you will find a snapshot of some of our most recent news. |
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| November 2006 Tea Shack News |
| Tea-shack News is a publication produced by HSE's Offshore Division. HSE aim to keep the offshore workforce informed about current offshore related issues and also advise about our current work activity. |
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| 2007 Step Change Dates for Your Diary |
| Here are some Step Change Meeting Dates for your diary. Further information on timings venues etc will be posted on the website nearer the time. To ensure you are kept up to date, log in to the site and visit your User Profile to turn on News e-mail notifications. |
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| Elected Safety Representative Guidance |
| Step Change has recently reprinted "Understanding the SI 971 Safety Reps Function" and "Guidance for Supervision on the SI 971 Safety Rep Function". We feel that each manned location should have a copy, firstly to aid new Safety Reps and secondly to refresh the knowledge of Safety Reps who have been carrying out the function for some time. |
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| Boots on for Safety - the early feedback |
| Offshore workers are sharing their ideas and views about safety to help shape the Step Change agenda for 2007. To date over 130 Boots on for Safety visits have taken place, offshore, at heliports and at onshore facilities. Step Change has created two lists showing the top ten aspects of what is working and what should be reviewed. |
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| UKOOA UK Medical Frequency Changes - New Rules to take effect from 1st January 2007 |
| UKOOA medical frequency is currently based on age: 3 yearly for under 40, 2 yearly for 40-49 and annually for 50 plus. We have studied the failure rates for medicals, based on these age groups, and discovered that there is very little difference between them. UKOOA has therefore decided to adopt a standard medical frequency of 2 yearly. The medical will include a risk assessment, which may determine that a person will require to be seen on a more frequent basis. |
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| Do You Know? Turning data into useful information |
| New information that can help prevent incidents for maintenance and construction crews has been identified by the Step Change Information Workgroup. The Group, headed by John Pearson of Amec, has reviewed industry data on maintenance and construction incidents and identifed some key findings that reveal fresh insight into incidents which can help companies reduce incidents and accidents offshore. |
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