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Surviving Before, During and After a Helicopter Crash
Helicopters are vital offshore — and ditching into the sea is survivable if you are trained for it. How helicopters help, why they crash, and the underwater-escape training that saves lives.
A Guide to Preventing Accidents at Home
Home is where we feel safest — yet it is a common source of accidents. A room-by-room guide to preventing fire, shocks, falls, cuts, poisoning and more.
Preparing for Success When Working & Learning Online
The COVID-19 Pandemic has made many aspects of our lives more difficult in 2020, seriously disrupting almost all aspects of day-to-day life, business operations, transportation, tourism and even education. With much of the workforce required to work from home under a “new normal”, many questioned the ability to remain productive and achieve both business and […]
Safety & Survival at Sea
Even in this modern age of aeroplanes and helicopters, we still rely heavily on the sea for transportation of goods. Cargo ships, oil tankers and fishing vessels still ply the waves around the world daily. Additionally, approximately 30% of the world’s oil supply comes from offshore exploration meaning a huge number of rigs, production platforms […]
Safety & Survival in the Offshore Industry
One of the most dangerous careers and hazardous professions, both physically and mentally, is working on an offshore oil and gas platform, because of the isolation, the extreme weather conditions, the location conditions and the operation of heavy machinery and equipment for hours at a time, which can cause a high risk of injuries and death. If something goes wrong on an offshore location, the results can be disastrous.
The Importance of Hand Safety
The human hands are an exceptional feat of engineering. Made up of complex interactions between bones, muscles and ligaments, they are our most important tools for interacting with the world around us. Our hands are in constant use, involved in almost every task we do on a daily basis, often without even thinking about it, […]
10 Tips for a Fire Safe Kitchen
Your home is your sanctuary; it’s where your family is, where you carry out many of your hobbies and where you rest your body and soul after a long day at work. But while it may be a sanctuary, this does not mean it is completely safe. One of the biggest risks to safety in […]
7 Tips for Working Safely With Ladders
Working at height can be dangerous or, in the worst case, even deadly. According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), workers who are six feet or more above the ground are at high risk for serious injury or death if they fall. Based on a WHO Report in 2016, falls from height are the […]
What Do You Look for in a Training Provider?
When planning on engaging in safety training for the Oil & Gas industry, what factors do you consider? Is it Location, Facilities, Quality, Experience, Price, Accreditation, or Safety? On their own, each of these factors has great merit, but when it comes to training they are, in fact, closely linked together.