Wednesday 2 April 2014

Sir Charles Haddon-Cave confirmed to speak at 2014 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards

Ahead of the awards ceremony to be held at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on Wednesday 30 April, Oil & Gas UK today reveals the key address will be delivered by the Hon. Mr Justice Charles Haddon-Cave QC, who led the Nimrod enquiry and inspirationally spoke at the Piper 25 Conference in 2013. Sir Charles is recognised as one of today’s leading experts in the fields of aviation and maritime transport.

The list of finalists is also now confirmed for The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards, sponsored by Maersk Oil UK. The awards continue to provide motivation and encouragement for new standards of improved safety, with many of the nominees’ contributions being practiced by today’s UK offshore workforce.

Oil & Gas UK health, safety and employment issues director Robert Paterson says the event will be reminder of the past as well as an opportunity to celebrate innovation and inspiration for the future.

“This showcase event is about celebrating the best part of the oil and gas industry, its people. All finalists are of an outstanding calibre, and their achievements are rightly to be celebrated and their ground-breaking ideas and innovative methods shared across the sector. It’s an event not to be missed.”

Step Change in Safety team leader Les Linklater expressed his hope that the event will once again demonstrate how the top safety representatives, safety leaders and bright, energetic people moving up in the industry play their part in improving our safety performance.

“On the day of the awards ceremony we will take the time to celebrate the contribution of safety representatives, safety leaders, people who’ve intervened to prevent incidents and those companies leading the way in safety innovation.

“Offshore safety has improved so much over the last 16 years and these awards are all about showcasing the positive things that are going on whilst recognising that there will always be more to do.”

The finalists are:

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Safety Leadership, sponsored by ABB Consulting: • Paul Craig, Safety Manager, North Star Shipping; • Tom Gilchrist, Business Stream 3 Director, WGPSN; • Timothy Glasspool, Head of Flight Operations (Europe), Bristow Helicopters Ltd.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Safety Representative, sponsored by Chevron North Sea Limited: • Bob Egan, Trade Foreman, Petrofac; • Davy Murray, Elected Safety Representative Buzzard Platform, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd; • David Thomson, Offshore Inspection Engineer, CAN.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Preventative Safety Action, sponsored by BG International Limited: • Helen Bowie, Lead HSE Advisor, Wood Group PSN; • Derek Smith, Rigger/Deck Crew – Clyde, Wood Group PSN, Talisman Sinopec Contract; • Mark Wood, Senior Process Engineer, Atkins Ltd.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Most Promising Individual, sponsored by Petrofac Facilities Management: • Mike Bucheggar, 5th Week Lead Mechanical Technician, Talisman Sinopec Energy UK/WGPSN; • Steven Farquhar, HSE Advisor, WGPSN; • Ruth Pirie, QSHE Advisor, Fisher Offshore.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Innovation in Safety, sponsored by Draeger Safety UK Limited: • DNV GL; • The North Sea Production Company; • Wells Team, Shell UK Ltd.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award for Workforce Engagement, sponsored by Fairfield Energy Limited: • Carol Banks and Lucy Norval, Trustees of the Pound for Piper Memorial Trust, jointly nominated by ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited and Stork; • Andy Nolan, Seconded Safety Rep and the HSE&A Department, Talisman Sinopec Energy UK; • Gillian Taylor and Megan Brown, HSE Advisor and Incident-Free Manager, Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Health Award, sponsored by AMEC PLC: • Emma Roberts, Area Operations Health and Safety Advisor (Safety and Operational Risk), BP; • RigRun Ltd; • Well Track by Sodexo.

The UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Award Ideas in Safety Prize: • Aberdeen Drilling Consultants; • Ayssar Hanza, Process Safety Engineer, BP; • Bronson Larkins, Well Interventions Engineer, BP.

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Oil & Gas UK is the leading representative organisation for the UK offshore oil and gas industry. Its growing membership, which comprises oil and gas producers and contractor companies, now numbers more than 420.