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DABRAT dived without LTIs A very big step has been taken in the DABRAT project that is going to change Dan B to an unmanned platform.

Annual safety meeting 2014

The bravest man in the world!

During the annual safety meeting intensive group work was made by the safety representatives.

Collegial care and quick assistance from a counsellor made a difference.

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Annual safety meeting “During the annual safety meeting intensive group work was made by all the safety representatives.

The work made was really impressive and everyone who contributed deserves recognition for a job well done.�

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In this issue LEADER

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Annual safety meeting

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Say hello to your wife and tell her that she is married the bravest man in the world!

Collegial care and quick assistance from a counsellor has made a difference to three colleagues involved in an incident on Dan F.

DABRAT dived without LTI's 8 Audits are an aid to knowledge sharing 11 Good experience with Ampelmann at the Tyra field

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If you know what you have to do when the alarm bells ring, you will considerably increase your chances of survival.

Say hello to your wife and tell her 14 that she is marries to the bravest man in the world!

Created together because we are going to succeed together!

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Drills will increase your chances of survival considerably

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Drills will increase your chances of survival considerably

We prepare for the unexpected 24 1,000 days celebrated with cakes!

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Think about BMI

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Careful consideration saved many work hours

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Milestones

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My safety story

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Created together because we are going to succeed together!

The Dan-Gorm Asset Incident-Free Vision 2015 is the result of collaboration between employees and management.

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LEaDER

Genuine concern for all As the year 2014 comes to an end I hope that you will be inspired by the articles we have chosen to feature in this year’s last edition of SafetyNews. The story from Dan F where a colleague avoided a fall from six meters of height illustrates to me that we are seeing evidence in our culture of genuine care and concern to our employees.

In 2014 our safety performance suffered from too many incidents. 2015 will surely also bring challenges to our operations, but I do feel it is important we take time to remember to appreciate each other for the good work that is being executed on a daily basis. Care and concern for our employees and integrity of our assets shall remain a key driving force in our culture underpinned by our five global safety commitments.

The safety commitment “I take responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of myself and my colleagues” is to me instrumental and, linked with acknowledging that we are vulnerable, provides an integral view on how we shall embrace our commitments. Recognizing, understanding and applying them in the daily work are a personal and collective commitment – and it should be a relentless one as it will bring us closer to becoming an Incident-Free workplace.

Thank you for all the good stories you have brought forward to the editorial staff of SafetyNews in 2014. Keep these good stories coming so we can share the good work taking place and continue to share our learnings across the organisation.

On behalf of the Leadership Team of Maersk Oil Danish Business Unit I would like to express our appreciation of your efforts in 2014 and I look forward to continue our Incident-Free work in 2015 together with you.

I wish you and your loved ones a merry Christmas and a safe 2015.

Jonathan Smith, Head of Health, Safety and Environment

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Annual safety meeting

“During the annual safety meeting intensive group work was made by all the safety representatives. The work made was really impressive and everyone who contributed deserves recognition for a job well done.�

Our safety commitments provide to everybody working in Maersk Oil guidance to what type of behaviors we want in our organization. They underpin everything we do as regards Incident-Free.

The annual safety meeting took place in October at Trinity in Fredericia. Approx. 170 persons from Maersk Oil DBU offshore and onshore participated.

The task

Each group was to identify key positive behaviors associated with each of our five safety commitments and also to identify a set of negative behavior patterns associated with these. Behaviors that we do not want to see in our culture.

The groups were also asked to discuss, in detail, what the safety commitments meant, but moreover to bring the term accountability for each of the safety commitments into play.

The work from the safety representatives will be incorporated in a small handbook on our commitments. The handbook will be distributed in 2015 to all employees.

For each safety commitment good discussions and dialogues took place on how they are linked to our core values. This was a really good exercise.

Have you reflected on your role to ensure that you live and work by our safety commitments?

Maeersk Oil Safety Commitments

I take responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of myself and my colleagues.

I consider the risks involved before and during any job.

I work with a valid work permit when required.

I always intervene when I see unsafe acts or conditions.

I acknowledge that we are all vulnerable.

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For each safety com mitment good discussions and dialogues took place on how they are linked to our core values.

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Comments from the day “Core safety values? I like the sound of that!”

Kenneth Dielemans, from the podium

”I like the sound of that as well.”

Response from the floor…

"I was enjoying it in our work group: Just imagine that you cannot get a word in edgeways in a dialogue on safety! There were so many who wanted to bring up a subject and who came up with ideas and suggestions. It tells me how far we have come. " Comment from the floor to the group work

"Some took quite a lot of pancakes this morning. Did we have a duty to intervene? " Comment to talk about taking responsibility for each other's heath

"It is a challenge that many of the new - young - people are in their chambers from 07:00 pm. We will get no social unity and solidarity from that."

Comment from the floor to questions about the importance of solidarity to safety

"When I came offshore for the first time 7 years ago, the platform supervisor said to me: We expect you to be in the way the first year, starting to figure it out the second year and be self-propelled the third year.

It was actually a good expectation to be met with. No one expects you to know everything from day one!"

Comment from the floor on debate about meeting new colleagues

Examples of Gorms safety measures 2014-2015.

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”What did you take with you from this year’s event?”

Kjeld Berg Madsen, electrician, Atlantic Labrador:

"It was a super event that I think everyone has benefitted from. I have been working offshore for 10 years and have really seen a change in attitude. It was a very pronounced ‘roughneck iron discipline' mentality when I started to work offshore; today, people listen and talk to each other. I think events like these have helped to change attitudes. It is important that we hear that management is committed to safety. The company should be known as a safe company so that we can work with all the big players in the world - but that special culture has to work from inside the company first."

Søren Faxø, roustabout, Halfdan Bravo:

"It has been an excellent experience. A fantastic presentation by Rasmus and some good sessions in the groups. The company's top management wants safety, and it becomes clearer with every year. You can feel that the pressure on us is meant to enable us to work safely. The goal is for us to create an Incident-Free environment. It is only safe work that gives access to future growth, and that is an important message!"

Jan Richter, roustabout, Dan F:

"An interesting event that has given me a lot of good input that I can work on.

The work in the groups with slides was good, and many good words were spoken on things that some of us might tend to do automatically. It was very thought-provoking. It also worked well with the posters that were displayed where the various platforms showed this year's initiatives. It means that we can learn from each other, instead of all of us having to reinvent the wheel - it's great knowledge sharing."

Knud Erik Jakobsen, roustabout, Tyra Øst:

"I've participated in these events for a few years and each time learnt something new. It is exciting to meet other colleagues and be inspired by their safety work and way of approaching things. We share our experience and make each other better. This year it has been clear to see that top management wants safety and sees it as a way to sell the company to other future customers."

Gert Rasmussen, production technician, Halfdan A:

"It was not as good as last year when we visited a lot of companies and learned from their good solutions. It was much more tangible, whereas I saw it as being rather vague this year.

The on-site commander from the Copenhagen Fire Brigade was really good. He emphasised the importance of good communication so that people will understand the job correctly. It was very instructive."

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dived without LTI's

A very big step has been taken in the DABRAT project that is going to change Dan B to an unmanned platform.

Rarely has a 'thumbs up' been more appropriate than the one a diver sent to the underwater camera in August. It marked the end of one of the major sub-projects in DABRAT: the Dan Bravo Rationalisation, that in the time towards 2015 is going to extend the life of Dan B and make the platform unmanned.

After 200 working days – 70 in 2013 and 130 in 2014 – the most difficult part of the diving work has now been completed.

And with zero LTI's a 'thumbs up' is definitely appropriate.

something happens, it can have serious consequences. Therefore, we are really happy that we have been able to complete so many diving hours without an LTI," he says.

Great results

He attributes the good result to very thorough planning: "We have known the task for a long time and used the time well to

think through and plan all aspects. We have defined the scope, and our tender documents were in great detail.

All procedures were performed early.

Furthermore, we have had a third party in the UK to review each sequence to give a time estimate of the job so we could plan in the best possible way. It has made a big difference," says Jakob Knudsen.

"Diving operations are always the part of an operation that you have to have great respect for," says Jakob Knudsen, Maersk Oil's project manager on the DABRAT project:

”Diving operationsare complicated operations where there may be a higher risk - and if something happens, it can have serious consequences.”

"These are complicated operations where there may be a higher risk - and if

Jakob Knudsen, Maersk Oil's project manager on the DABRAT project

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR DABRAT? The work with DABRAT is far from finished now - and in fact there is still a significant part of the work waiting to be done.

There is a couple of large operations we are now about to embark on.

We will have to work with the topside from 1 March 2015, and we will get a diving vessel out on 1 July for further diving operations. Another 30 to 45 days of diving are waiting ahead, among other things in order to remove some fire water pumps and associated caissons," says Jakob Knudsen.

Troels Rasmussen, Head of Operational Safety in HSE, Danish Business Unit, has followed the operation and agrees:

An example from the mess on the diving vessel illustrates very well how Boskalis, Maersk Oil's cooperation partner, has always sought to keep the information level high. On a TV screen in the mess, an animated video of the tasks to be performed could always be seen:

"We required a safety officer onboard the vessel, and he was to be solely dedicated to the task. Often it is someone who is pulled out of the diving operation, but here it was one who was not supposed to do anything else. It turned out to be a great advantage," says Jakob Knudsen.

NINA

Another important aspect of the successful diving campaign has been that the tender material contained the request for a person who was 100 percent dedicated to safety.

NINA is an abbreviation of ’No Injuries, No Accidents’,

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The good experience with a dedicated safety officer has already been passed on in the organization. This means that, for example, a dedicated safety officer will be used for diving operations in the maintenance department in the future.

"Every time people were eating, they could see what was going to happen.

It's a small thing, but it helps to increase awareness," says Jakob Knudsen.

"Lifting under water is a very complicated task. It has been planned in the minutest detail, for example with different colours of the cables and with the numbers on the individual hooks. The input from Boskalis has been very thorough with a very high level of information," he says.

In the Dutch Boskalis it’s NINA, who ensures that work is carried out safely.

"We had an incident where a diver hit his ankle inside the diving bell when the bell was pulled up in the waves. Here we had to change our procedure for how to communicate with the diver and at the same time find another method for the divers to hold on to the bell - with two hands instead of the one hand he was using for holding on. The safety officer could implement this change immediately," says Troels Rasmussen.

A dedicated safety man

The input from Boskalis has been very thorough with a very high level of information."

Troels Rasmussen, Head of Operational Safety in HSE.

The new audit module is being rolled out – here colleagues from DBU are in dialogue with Jeppe Guld, Head of Audit & Assurance, Corporate HSE Audits.

Audits are an aid to knowledge sharing New audit set-up will ensure that the full benefits of an audit are also realised.

In April, HSE representatives from across Maersk Oil assembled in a workshop dedicated to audit work.

“The goal was to get an input to make audits better - and we got lots of input,” says Jeppe Guld, Head of Audit & Assurance in Corporate HSE Audits: "We had gathered representatives from all parts of Maersk Oil to find out whether we had the right set-up to ensure that we get the full value out of our audits," says Jeppe Guld: "The conclusion to the workshop was that we did not get as much out of audits as we should. We have conducted audits in several different ways, which has made it difficult to draw the learning of it, and especially not been good enough to follow up on the findings that the audits have produced.

This is going to be changed now," he says.

Based on suggestions

Since the workshop, Corporate has worked to streamline the audit procedure, and a new procedure for audits was presented to the DBU at a seminar in Esbjerg in November.

"One of the main messages from April's workshop was precisely that a standardisation could make a difference, and since we already have Synergi, which contains an audit module, the solution was to make use of this module," says Jeppe Guld.

“The new procedure for audits ensures that everybody in Maersk Oil is unified in thought and action when conducting audits. But that does not mean that you have got a standard which does not allow change,” says Jeppe Guld: "We deliver on what has been requested by the BU’s. We are not in any ivory tower thinking up something new: We have used as a basis the findings and good suggestions that came at the workshop in April," says Jeppe Guld.

Promotes best practice

Everybody has access to Synergi and thus the audit module and that will give consistent results.

"It makes it easier to deduct the learning from audits when they are all done in the same way. A major plus of

greater standardisation is that it gives the possibility to rotate auditors. We have 150 auditors in Maersk Oil. When we can send an auditor from DBU to Qatar and vice versa, then we can also disseminate knowledge in the organization. We have not utilized well enough the 150 auditors we have - we are now going to do that and strengthen the network between auditors. This will partly help to promote the best practice and partly mean that we avoid hiring subcontractors for the job. Thereby we preserve knowledge and learning in the house," says Jeppe Guld.

"We respond to the fact that we have not followed up well enough on findings from audits."

Jeppe Guld, Head of Audit & Assurance

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Good experience with Ampelmann at the Tyra field Transfer deck

The gangway

The Ampelmann transfers give easier access to the satellite platforms. The method has allowed for up to 100 extra working days on the satellite platforms a year.

The Havila Fortune has been in operation primarily in the Tyra field since August to test the use of Ampelmann in the DBU.

Expensive yet good

Ampelmann is a wave-compensating walkway that can connect a vessel to a platform so that people can walk directly from the vessel onto the platform.

”We have tested it to see if it could give us new opportunities, and it can. This does not mean that Ampelmann is the only method we will use in the future. We have made transfers by vessels for 30 years, and it has worked well. But Ampelmann looks as if it can give us better opportunities in marginal weather situations. We will obtain a higher activity level," says Kasper Øllgaard Bloch:

”This ’Walk to Work’- principle has been used in several places all over the world and with good results; this is why we will now try it out in DBU," says Kasper Øllgaard Bloch, deputy asset manager for Tyra Asset: ”Till now we have used transfers by vessels and with good results. But the vessels have a limitation with the wave height. We cannot transfer people with wave heights over 2.5 m. With the Ampelmann system we can now transfer people with wave heights up to 4 m, and that is a big expansion. It gives us approximately another 100 working days a year on the satellite platforms," he says.

All experience with Ampelmann has been positive so far:

"Comparing with transfers by vessels, Ampelmann is a more expensive method.

But with the fact that we get the possibility of working more days on the satellite platforms and that people have a possibility of having breaks on the vessel instead of on the platform, we see it as a good investment," says Kasper Øllgaard Bloch.

”Till now we have used transfers by vessels and with good results. But the vessels have a limitation with the wave height.”

Kasper Øllgaard Bloch, Deputy Asset Manager for Tyra Asset

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Ampelmann �Walk to Work� system is mounted on the supply ship Havila Fortune, for the transfer of personnel from the main platform to the different satellite platforms.

The Ampelmann system has primarily been used in the Tyra field, because this is where we have the most unmanned satellite platforms. Five of Maersk Oil's nine unmanned satellite platforms in the Danish sector of the North Sea are near Tyra.

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The incident on Dan F – in brief On 30 August at about 2:30 in the morning, three colleagues, Lars Skjødt, Kenneth Brinch and Palle Nielsen, were working on some scaffolding racks that were to be lifted.

Palle Nielsen was at the trolley and hooked the crane on an open basket. When he gave a sign to Kenneth Brinch to lift, either the ball or the wind pushed the trolley towards Palle Nielsen. He stepped backwards 2 or 3 steps and fell down in a hole. However, he managed to get hold of the rail that the trolley was running on and got one leg on to a supporting beam for a crane crab half a meter down.

Thus he avoided a free fall of 7 to 8 meters.

Palle Nielsen got up by himself - and the only physical injury was a bruise.

Platform supervisor Claus Kofod Jørgensen requested counselling treatment for the three colleagues.

Today fall arrest harness equipment is required when people work in the area where Palle Nielsen worked.

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Collegial care and quick assistance from a counsellor has made a difference to three colleagues involved in an incident on Dan F.

The message from Claus Kofod Jørgensen, platform supervisor, to Palle Nielsen, rigger, was friendly but firm: "The counsellor is here now, and you have to talk to her. You have no choice."

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Two days earlier, Palle Nielsen had avoided a free fall of six meters by a pure fluke. During a crane operation at 2:30 in the morning, he was pushed over the edge, but he was so fortunate that he grabbed hold of a rail and could pull himself up again - frightened and with only an abrasion. And very, very lucky to be alive.

Now he was sent to a counsellor.

Good process

The two days after the incident had been busy for Palle Nielsen.

He had spent a lot of time talking with colleagues and the management about what had happened. Together with the colleagues Lars Skjødt and Kenneth Brinch, who operated the cranes that night, Palle Nielsen had gone through all the details of the incident for the team that came out from onshore to investigate what had happened.

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It had been good to talk it over, and his colleagues had been listening and were interested. Everyone was supportive and without any kind of reproach.

Palle Nielsen had been offered to be taken home before the shift ended, but he did not want to. Claus Kofod Jørgensen had offered to procure a counsellor - but Palle Nielsen would like "to give it some thought first", which was an indirect way to say "no thank you".

"I thought that the company should not have the bother to fly her out here because of that. I had already talked it over with my colleagues, "says Palle Nielsen.

Am I good enough?

A couple of days later Palle Nielsen began to get disheartened.

"I was worried whether my colleagues would now think that I was completely incompetent at my work. Whether they would think I'm careless. Would they operate the crane together with me again? All that made me very nervous, and I got quite disheartened. I was wondering a lot about my situation. Am I good enough? I've only been offshore for a year, so I'm pretty new," says Palle Nielsen.

Thoughts came rolling in all by themselves.

"I met nothing but support from my colleagues and management, and I met a lot of recognition because I had stayed offshore to talk about what had happened. Still, I was in doubt.

I asked whether they were now talking about me. "Now I will probably get fired?" That made me very upset and afraid as it is my best workplace ever and the best colleagues I have ever had," says Palle Nielsen.

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The rigger standing by the trolley near the edge.

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The rigger takes a step back and falls over the edge.

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The rigger hits a bar under the running rail to the trolley. He grabs onto the running rail and avoids a further drop down onto the structure, pipes and gangway.

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"We could have kept our mouths shut! It was the middle of the night, and we were the only persons who saw it. But if we had kept our mouths shut, then someone else could indeed have fallen down, and I would never have been able to bear that."

Palle Nielsen, rigger

He could feel that his colleagues were worried about him. When he asked his foreman and assistant foreman if his colleagues were talking about him - they replied in the negative and asked instead whether Palle Nielsen was actually OK.

- and that I had no choice," says Palle Nielsen.

Then he was called up on the PA.

"We talked about my mental situation, my work colleagues, my worries. A lot of things. She had no formula because she had not talked to me about falling over the edge before. But she was really good to talk to, and it helped me a lot," he says.

"It was Claus Kofod Jørgensen. "It is nothing serious, I just want to talk to you," he said. But I was so nervous. I came into the office, and he said he was worried about me. And then I simply started crying. I told him about my fear of being fired.

He said: "This is not the way we solve problems here". And I was so relieved," says Palle Nielsen.

"And then he told me that he had had a counsellor flown in here. That she was here now, and that I had to talk to her

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The conversation with the counsellor went well. It took a few hours, and Palle Nielsen left no stone unturned in the conversation:

Happy with the care

He is still thinking about what happened that night. But the positive thoughts are now dominating.

"Today I am more than grateful that my colleagues and my management took such good care of me. Lars and Kenneth were a huge help. My foreman and assistant foreman were really good. And

although I had declined the counselling assistance, Claus could see that I needed it. It is very touching, I think. I felt myself very well taken care of," he says.

Palle Nielsen had chosen not to call home and tell his wife about the incident. She did not hear about what had happened till he got home. At that time it was not a story about the incident that took up most of the time. It was the story of the process that followed.

"Before the trip home a painter said to me:" Say hello to your wife and tell her that she is married to the bravest man in the world. You stayed and you ventured to talk about it." And another colleague said: "You have saved a life. There is no one saying that you have messed things up.

No one!" That meant a lot to me. My wife was very moved and had tears in her eyes when she heard of the care that I had met from my colleagues," he says.

The counsellor made a difference ” It was just a bruise, but it left deep marks.”

So says crane operator Lars Skjødt, who was working together with Kenneth Brinch and Palle Nielsen on a routine job when Palle Nielsen suddenly disappeared in a hole: ”We had done this hundreds of times.

Suddenly he was gone. Then he came back up again but could not get to his feet. Kenneth and I went up to him and talked to him about what had happened.

He was extremely fortunate. All of us could see what could have happened: He would have hurt himself badly if he had landed between the pipes six meters down. And then, it was the North Sea below that," says Lars Skjødt.

Together with his colleagues he was facing the incident, and it was a good thing to have it discussed. But the decisive factor was the counsellor who was called for, with training in handling crises.

“It was a very good initiative from the company and the platform supervisor.

We quickly got the offer for counselling, but we did not do anything about it. After about 36 hours the platform supervisor said that a counsellor would come out and that it was a decision he had made," says Lars Skjødt: "I do not think I would have asked for counselling myself. But I will definitely do if I'm ever in the same situation again. It helps so much. You gain peace, you see all aspects ... The counsellor can see and verbalize whether we are on the right path. I am grateful for that," says Lars Skjødt: "My colleagues have been very supportive that a counsellor came out. They have

seen that we should not walk around and deal with the problems alone. It shows that we are not just a number, but that the company knows very well that there are people behind," he says.

Many thoughts

Also Kenneth Brinch, who operated the other crane that evening, feels that he has received a lot of help.

"It was a great relief to talk to the counsellor. She could report back and say that I am working on my thoughts about the incident in a healthy way, and that was a great help. Many things are flying through one's head after such an event: Will I be going to operate the crane again?

Perhaps not. Had I lost confidence in my banksmen? Could such a situation happen again? It's not me who get the scratches in the crane cabin, but I do not feel like climbing down and picking up a banksman again! These thoughts took up a lot of my time," says Kenneth Brinch.

The thoughts were there at night as well.

- "I could not sleep. All the time I saw Palle's headlamp rushing around, which it did when he fell," he says.

The dialogue with the counsellor has helped a lot - as have many talks with colleagues.

"We have been good at using each other, and we also got the time for it. It has supported me in my view that it is a different culture today. I have been offshore since 1998, and I could well imagine that this kind of incident would have been hushed up in the old days. Things are not like that any longer," says Kenneth Brinch.

"I have been in critical situations before in my life where I did not get any help - I still have flashbacks to some of them. But this incident is something I've made peace with because we got the right help."

”We take care of each other” It was a gut feeling that decided the matter for platform supervisor Claus Kofod Jørgensen: Counselling had to be obtained for the three colleagues who were part of the incident - and it could not wait until the three were onshore.

"I spoke with several colleagues and also asked myself: "Am I really competent to handle this? And am I the right person for it?" And I thought I was not," says Claus Kofod Jørgensen.

Therefore, he contacted the operation onshore and got hold of a counsellor who could have a conversation with the three colleagues who were part of the incident. The counsellor was on the next helicopter.

Today Claus Kofod Jørgensen is extremely happy he made this decision: "I have heard that it has helped the three colleagues, and it's great," he says: "I am very happy and proud to work in a company where we also take stress and mental injuries seriously. Where we take care of each other. And I was happy to find that there was both readiness and commitment to act. It means a lot and helps to make it safe for the rest of us," he says.

Claus Kofod Jørgensen, platform supervisor Dan F

"I am very proud to work in a company where we also take stress and mental injuries seriously.

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“My name is Claus Kofod Jørgensen.

I am platform supervisor on Dan F. I have had the great pleasure to be the team leader in drawing up the Dan-Gorm Asset Incident-Free Vision 2015.”

In this way the Dan-Gorm Asset presents the Incident-Free Vision 2015.

Directly after this Claus Kofod Jørgensen addresses the question of why an Incident-Free Vision is important - and gives the answer himself: "Because together we have to know how to create the framework for a workplace free of accidents, and where the common culture is called Incident-Free."

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Ownership is a key word in many processes of change, and it is this ownership we have been looking for with the Dan-Gorm Assets Incident-Free Vision 2015. It has been prepared by a team, and each participant takes part on an equal footing.

After Claus Kofod Jørgensen's introduction, it is Jakob Morthorst Jensen, engineer, who expresses his opinion

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on care. He gives the baton to Freddy Jakobsen, maintenance assistant on Gorm. Freddy is talking about the necessity of collaboration - and that it requires good human relations to get there. Next colleague in line is Kaveh Karimi, well and reservoir manager in Dan-Gorm Asset. Kaveh is talking about process safety.

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"It's been a really exciting process to prepare the Dan-Gorm Asset’s Incident-Free Vision 2015 as a team," says Claus Kofod Jørgensen: "The vision is not "top down", but is our common Asset vision. The team is composed by Asset Manager Lars Seidler, and there are people from different parts of our Asset - and from different fields of operation. This has contributed to an extremely exciting and broad dialogue about the extent of the vision," he says and stresses:

”The vision has been created together because we are going to succeed together!”

Ownership is a key word in many processes of change, and it is this ownership we have been looking for with the DanGorm Assets Incident-Free Vision 2015. It has been prepared by a team, and each participant takes part on an equal footing.

"The management team of the DBU has emphasized that we must be Incident-Free in all segments of the business.

It requires the full support of all of us - spoken in the same language and from a common platform. The best way to create this common platform is through a common vision. " Claus Kofod Jørgensen on Dan-Gorm Incident-Free Vision 2015 Safety News december 2014 19

Safety Step Change Claus Kofod Jorgensen is confident in the struggle to achieve the goal of an Incident-Free workplace.

"Without vision and foresight the fantastic Incident-Free-message will slowly wither. If our vision is to become a reality, it requires constant attention and ‘fertilizing’ - and part of it is to ensure that we have everyone's full backing and support," he says.

The vision puts many words on the soft values. For example, care and looking after each other are prominent values in the vision.

"We as an organization are really good at solving large, complex, technical tasks quickly and efficiently. But when it comes to care and recognition of our own vulnerability, then we still have something to learn. These two subjects must be on top of our daily agenda in, for example, toolbox talks. This is the only way in which we will remain Incident-Free," says Claus Kofod Jørgensen.

The debate on the vision has been thorough and positive.

"We have been humble towards the task and made it clear to ourselves that we as a company are engaged in an exciting and challenging task of 'Safety Step Change'.

The Incident-Free-message is the common denominator that must embrace 'Safety Step Change'. In the team our goal has been that a common Asset Vision with 'Safety Step Change' will help to keep the focus on the main topics: caring, collaboration, planning and process safety. Only when we comply and make our vision alive, can we create a positive safety record and - even more importantly! -a workplace free of accidents”, he says.

You can find the film on Maersk Training Tube: www.tt.maerskoil.com

"The vision puts many words on the soft values. For example, care and looking after each other are prominent values in the vision."

Claus Kofod Jørgensen

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Dan-Gorm Asset Incident-Free Vision 2015 Care To us Incident Free means that we always have an open, honest and constructive dialogue. We are open to have and give feedback; also critical feedback. We establish positive relations to each other across various areas of work and tasks, winning each others' thrust. We believe in and work for positive relations as well as trust creating Incident-Free caring for each other. This will make us able to step in if we observe unsafe behaviour or actions. We ensure and help our new colleagues to adopt our IF culture.

Collaboration We have to make a step change in our safety performance and we will jointly establish an inspiring place of work, where we all have clear guidelines and areas of responsibilities. We must increase our self-awareness for assessing risks and improve the job quality through structured collaboration across competencies, fields and departments. Together we create possible solutions, but we have only one plan for the job.

Planning We acknowledge and accept the necessity of a ”step change” in our planning. We all make an extra effort to observe Toll Gates and work according to current plans. Our planning must always include a prejob evaluation, the plan itself, execution of the job and a safe start-up programme. We are Incident-Free in our culture of planning and always make risks assessments, safe job analyses, and have Tool Box meetings before the job starts or changes.

Process Safety We continue our focus on process safety, and we all contribute by ALWAYS being role models.

We have a culture where asking and answering questions from our colleagues is a part of everyday life. We fully recognize that we are all vulnerable and do not know everything.

We comply with current procedures and implement new ones in a positive manner, also when these influence on our existing routines. We are ready to step up and jointly ensure that our procedures and guidelines are updated and applicable.

Drills will increase

your chances of survival considerably If you know what you have to do when the alarm bells ring, you will considerably increase your chances of survival. And if you moreover have taken part in drills where you have actually left your workplace and have made your way to your muster station, your chances of survival are pretty good.

If you know what you have to do when the alarm bells ring, you will considerably increase your chances of survival. And if you moreover have taken part in drills where you have actually left your workplace and have made your way to your muster station, your chances of survival are pretty good. We are creatures of habit and if we have tried something many times, it becomes familiar and routine – something we can do in our sleep. So the reason for arranging frequent muster drills is for you to live through a crisis situation so many times that when it suddenly becomes reality, then you know precisely what to do. This will increase your chances of survival enormously!

People who are exposed to a disaster (plane crash, ship collision, earthquake or fire on an offshore platform) will typically react in one of the following ways:

Approx. 15 % remain quiet and will act quickly and effectively.

Approx. 15 %

In the dawn of time, it could be practical enough not to do anything and just stand stock still if we were suddenly facing a dangerous situation, e.g. being attacked by a predator. A predator will not attack something that is standing stock still as it will see this as a sign that the animal/the prey is ill and could thus eventually bring an end to the predator’s own life.

Which category an individual person falls into has nothing to do with their type of personality. In a critical situation we will react completely differently from what we would normally do. People we know as being rational and action-oriented may suddenly begin to walk around as if they were sleepwalkers or were in a trance.

And conversely, people we know as some who need a long time to make a decision may be extremely rational and start using the emergency exits quickly to bring them to safety. If you have previously experienced a fire or the like, there is a high probability that you will react rationally. And that is precisely why we hold emergency drills - so that we have all tried and tested what we should do.

been made on the background of emergency analysis of known (and theoretical) scenarios, e.g. gas leaks, ship collisions, explosion/fires etc. and gives an estimate if people have a factual possibility of getting away and surviving. Please note that the analysts base their views on the ideal world, i.e. that people will act rationally and immediately start moving away from an accident and to a muster area, and that they use the personal protective equipment (smoke masks, survival suits etc) that might be required. The assumption of rational behaviour is good enough, but in order that we can be rational, it is required that we have repeatedly tested, what to do – i.e. stop what we're doing, and moving the right way to muster. For only by having tried it over and over again will it become routine so that we do not have to think but can respond instinctively and automatically do the right thing.

In the analysis we take it for granted that people muster where they live. That is to say that people living on the production platform will muster there and that people who live on a rig will muster there.

Emergency analyses

How many lifeboats?

An emergency plan has been drawn up for all Maersk Oil DBU installations. It has

The number of lifeboat seats will at least be equal to the maximum number of

will become hysterical and begin to cry or scream (become irrational).

Approx. 70 % will do very little – they become confused and paralysed.

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"Limit the accident" is both the first rule in first aid and the philosophy that our offshore installations are built on."

Helene Nissen, Senior Risk Analyst

Fires in our onshore buildings are usually much less severe than fires offshore.

But still, the same principles apply: attempt only to fight small fires, and if it is not immediately possible, then get away from the fire and go to the muster area.

Beredskab people on board - plus an extra lifeboat.

This ensures us that there is a seat for everyone, even if a lifeboat is out for maintenance or cannot be used (e.g. due to poor wind conditions, problems with the lowering or otherwise).

On Tyra East A the calculation looks like this: there are 96 people on board, and there are 6 lifeboats with a capacity of 24 persons each, so there are seats for 144 people. But note that only 5 of the boats are required to accommodate all the people on board – still enough to get everyone away. A similar calculation can be made for all offshore installations.

Check the emergency exit When you get into a plane, check into a hotel or on the whole arrive at a new place, it is a good idea to find out where the emergency exits and the assembly points are, and what rescue equipment is available. It could save your life.

Alternative muster areas

Everyone does not necessarily work on the platform where the primary muster area is. So when they have to move away from an accident, they may have to muster on their alternative muster area – i.e. at the lifeboats placed on other platforms. These lifeboats are extra in proportion to the capacity of the primary muster area. But as the rescue capacity on the alternative muster area is limited, it means that in some cases we have to limit the number of people on a given platform – that is done by using ‘tally points’.

Emergency plans

"Limit the accident" is both the first rule in first aid and the philosophy that our offshore installations are built on.

Fire-retardant materials, fire walls and fire protection have been used where it is possible, deluge systems and fire extinguishers (to fight small fires) and

much more have been installed. All of it to An outline of the escape routes, emergency exits and muster stations (Fire & prevent an accident from spreading and Safety Plan) is suspended in strategic becoming disastrous. locations both onshore and offshore.

You can always find the current emergency plan at the Maersk Oil DBU website Onshore - find "SSR Documentation" (in the black Fires in our onshore buildings are usually bar), then check the current installation much less severe than fires offshore. But and then go into the QRA (Quantitative still, the same principles apply: attempt Risk Assessment) and find the section only to fight small fires, and if it is not imon EERA (escape, evacuation and rescue mediately possible, then get away from analysis). the fire and go to the muster area.

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We prepare for the 28 wells in the North Sea, which needed to be abandoned, were mapped and identified in 2012. The oldest well was from 1966, and all 28 have different levels of complexity. The whole campaign should be completed by the end of 2016 thus leaving the seabed as close to the untouched as possible.

“In this kind of work, you have to stay very flexible. The motto of the project is to ‘prepare for the unexpected’, because conditions are ever changing, and sometime you have to use an educated guess.

In one instance, we had information on a well from 2000 feet below the surface, but nothing above this level,” says David Molony, Maersk Oil, Drilling Department.

Along with safety, avoiding a release of hydrocarbons to the environment during our work with the wells are our top priorities.

“Extensive research has been done, and we are very sure that we have found all the wells that need to be abandoned. In 24 safety News december 2014

2013, we completed the easiest ones, and those needing the least amount of work.

We were only dealing with vented caps and there was no potential for trapped pressure. However, some of the wells completed as part of the 2014 campaign were more technically difficult in terms of equipment needed and procedures which had to be followed.

The greatest challenges

Because so many years have passed some of the reports have been lost, and some are not quite accurate. The greatest challenges were sourcing the many different tools needed to do the job, and even with the right tools there were challenges recovering the caps from the mudline hangers on the seabed.

As it turned out during the recent 2014 campaign, there were three different manufacturers of the TA Caps (Temporary Abandonment Caps) screwed into the mudline hangers with each manufacturer having its own unique retrieval tool. Some TA Caps had functioning pressure valves installed and some were already vented.

In 2013 we only worked on the wells we knew definitely had vented TA Caps. Thus, from a safety point of view, there would be no danger of trapped pressure and

no risk of releasing hydrocarbons to the environment. During the 2014 campaign however, the presence of the pressure valves meant it was imperative that any trapped pressure was identified prior to removing the caps so that it could be contained without being released to the environment.

The only tool in the world

Our challenges were that for one of the three manufacturers there was next to no paperwork as to how the tools actually worked or even their dimensions. For one manufacturer there was only one retrieval tool left in existence for recovering their cap; this had been located in Singapore and luckily we were able to purchase it and bring it over to Denmark.

In another instance, we had to have tools manufactured for the specific purpose through reverse engineering and based on pictures taken 30 or 40 years ago.

Campaign completed in 2016

In 2014, we worked on 13 wells all with a wider variety of TA caps and potentially trapped pressure. In nine of these wells we had to cut and pull casing before setting a cement plug across all the annuli in order for it to constitute a permanent barrier.

u All work has been done from a vessel and using a ROV - a remotely operated underwater vehicle about the size of a car and with manipulator arms.

u Underwater photo of wells that need to be abandoned.

unexpected This leaves four wells for 2015. These are the most complicated and challenging ones and will possibly need to be worked over with a rig so that the wells can be tied back so that we can ensure there are no releases of hydrocarbons. The lessons learned from the previous 2 campaigns are currently being reviewed to ensure that the remaining wells are abandoned as safely and efficiently as possible.

The whole campaign should be completed by the end of 2016.

A car sized ROV

Many of the wells we have worked on this year had three or four caps. The top ones were vented, the rest just had a cement barrier and a backpressure valve between the reservoir and the environment. In those cases, we had to come up with a procedure for going in and proving that there was no accumulated pressure beneath,” David Molony says.

All work has been done from a vessel and using a ROV - a remotely operated underwater vehicle about the size of a car and with manipulator arms.

“It is unbelievable how big and powerful they are and also how they are able to work in great detail and with fine touches.

We could follow every step of the work from reservoirs were abandoned with cement the office in Copenhagen through live plugs set 30 years ago as the barrier. As stream, whenever needed,” Molony adds. we complete operations on these wells, we apply new pressures to these barriers Safety and the environment which could affect the integrity of the What about the safety aspect of the barrier and this is something we need work, we asked him. to be very cautious of. When we start to “There are actually two aspects: The remove TA Caps and cut and pull casing safety of people and the safety of the strings, if the control measures are not environment. put in place we could have a release of hyRegarding people, we have a lot of manu- drocarbons to the environment. However, al handling onboard the ship. Picking up we take all the necessary precautions and drill pipes and all the different assemblies have had no environmental incidents. just to mention two.

It has been a great team effort from all siUnfortunately, we have had one injury where des: Maersk Oil overseeing the work, NCA a person working on the deck of the vessel doing the engineering and project managehad a fingers crushed. He was picked up ment on our behalf and Island Offshore

by SAR helicopter and rushed to hospital with the vessel doing the work offshore. onshore for surgery, but I am sorry to say, All have worked towards a common goal they were unable to save his little finger. following the Maersk Oil safety systems Regarding the environment, we are going to mitigate any risk that may come up,” into wells where the hydrocarbon bearing David Molony says.

”Along with safety, avoiding a release of hydrocarbons to the environment during our work with the wells are our top priorities.”

David Molony, Senior Drilling Engineer, Drilling

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1,000 days celebrated with cakes!

Halfdan Asset reached a significant milestone with 1,000 days without any LTI, which was celebrated.

An important safety milestone was reached for Halfdan Asset, which on 17 October had achieved no less than 1,000 days without any LTI. It was celebrated in style both with cakes and hot chocolate - and was also the ideal occasion for the launch of the new 5 x 5 campaign: Chocolate in new 5 x 5 logo mugs and cake served on 5 x 5 logo sausage trays.

5 x 5 means to step 5 steps backwards and think for 5 seconds. The campaign was developed under an Incident-Free Ambassadors workshop in Halfdan.

- 5 x 5 is the last reminder before starting a job, says Cristina Klastrup, stewardess on Halfdan and one of the platform's Incident-Free Ambassadors: - It is not during the 5 seconds you realize that the work is unsafe. We have toolbox talk and risk assessment for that. But this is where you have time to think that you are entitled to back out and stop working.

And this is where you remember that we will always work safely, she says.

1,000 days not the goal

colleagues that it is always okay to take a moment to think about the situation and get an overview. It has only a symbolic value of course because five seconds makes no difference - but as a mindset it does matter. 5 x 5 should remind the colleagues that it is always appreciated to spend time thinking about safety, she says.

Although the 1,000 days without LTI is an impressive milestone, it is also an opportunity to reflect on how it has been achieved and what it means.

- We are pleased to reach 1,000 days without LTI's. But both management and ambassadors have described very clearly that we must not give this magic number without LTI's too much attention. We must avoid the situation where someone omits to report an incident just because it would destroy the statistics. Therefore we emphasise that 1,000 is just a number - it's LTI free days, which is the ultimate goal, says Cristina Klastrup.

When Halfdan reached 1,000 days without LTIs the new 5 x 5 campaign was launched.

5 x 5 means to step 5 steps backwards and think for 5 seconds.

Special 5 x 5 logo mugs and 5 x 5 logo sausage trays were made for the day.

The 5 x 5 campaign is yet another contribution to keeping the focus on the fact that safety offshore does not come by itself. Not even when you - as Halfdan does - are approaching three years without LTI.

�Although the 1,000 days without LTI is an impressive milestone, it is also an opportunity to reflect on how it has been achieved and what it means.�

- With the 5 x 5 we would like to remind

Cristina Klastrup, stewardesse

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Think about

BMI

Too many colleagues are carrying too much weight.

It is not only bad for health but also for safety.

- It is about choosing not to take that cake once in a while. And about getting some exercise.

No, Jean Hjortlund is not your mother.

And he does not come from a big brother society that is meant to dictate everything we do 24-7.

But he is a medic on Gorm and the coordinating medic in DBU, and there is a truth about our waist measurement which we have to put in words: - In general it is a challenge that we see quite some people who are overweight. We do a lot for our safety out here. But the lack of safety that you bring out here in the form of overweight, is very difficult to do something about, says Jean Hjortlund: - We are a good mixture. As a rule of thumb I think that many of us could do without a few kilos. Some are very fit, a few are ’skinny fat’ – and then we have a number of people who are seriously overweight, he says.

Takes up resources

It is this group that Jean Hjortlund is worried about. ’Serious overweight’ is where the way of life influences on the waist measurement to such a degree that it becomes a safety risk.

The overweight is not only a problem for the individual person but also for the colleagues.

- It is not easy to bring a heavy colleague up to the helideck. I have helped lifting a colleague up the stairs; he was not that big, approximately 100 kilo which is the average weight out here – it took eight men

and we were worn out afterwards. If his weight had been 130 kilo, then it would have been much more difficult.

It is very resource-demanding and the overweight means that it is not only hard on the colleagues to move such a patient – it might also mean that it takes more time to move the patient and thus it will take longer before he gets treated, says Jean Hjortlund.

for instance replaced the sausages and bacon for breakfast with Skyr and fruit. It is possible to find an alternative that is just as delicious and that is an idea that we will now spread, says Jean Hjortlund.

- Another thing to worry about is the fact that it might be difficult for people with serious overweight to get through the emergency exit, i.e. the helicopter window, in case the helicopter is forced to land on the sea and is sinking. And does he then block the exit for the others?

- There are mostly men out here and typically we have male professions. That also means quite a lot for our health: We are not the types who eat salad and probably we do not see our doctor very often. And we are certainly not measuring cholesterol; we rather put that problem and that worry aside.

A healthier alternative

- We are not the parents and we have to respect the choices people make.

But we also have to face the worries.

It is a matter of ‘turning the small buttons’: - Sometimes people just eat that cake because it is placed under their noses.

Often it is a matter of presenting a better alternative. On Dan they have

He also mentions campaigns such as exercise competitions, Tour de North Sea and health checks. It is a matter of putting it in words:

Another element is the culture of rewarding. A well done job often triggers candy and soft drinks. That adds weight.

But nobody wants a celery bar as prize for a job well done?

- Probably not! But it must be possible to find an alternative solution, earning points or the like. We should not contribute to overweight for jobs well done, he says.

”We do a lot for our safety out here. But the lack of safety that you bring out here in the form of overweight, is very difficult to do something about.”

Jean Hjortlund, medic on Gorm and coordinating medic

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Careful consideration saved many work hours Rigger Zlatan Mehakovic from Semco drew stop card and initiated an alternative and safer way.

The beam that put the rigger in doubt.

Zlatan Mehakovic, a rigger on the night team at Tyra SB was preparing a lift of a pipeline when he chose to draw the stop card.

He had examined the beam which was to hold the pipeline during the lift and had doubts about its lifting capacity. The beam was marked for two MT but had been anchored to the structure in several points. Zlatan was not sure if it was the sections between the anchoring points or the whole beam which could carry the two MT, and with safety in mind he contacted his foreman. The foreman, though, could not offer a certain answer, so they both decided to clarify the issue with their colleagues onshore.

Hereafter the construction supervisor and satellite assistant were involved.

They discussed the matter and also the overall rigging job that the rigger was to prepare in the first place.

What the rigger was doing was part of a big task: A 14� flowline was to be moved 28 safety News december 2014

Construction Supervisor explaining the rigging job originally planned.

down and pressure tested, then lifted up again and welded in its final position - in all some 1200 man-hours between welders and riggers.

But while the construction supervisor and satellite assistant were looking at it, they realised that in fact the lifting of the pipe could be avoided by pressure testing in another way. The whole thing could be done in around 200 man-hours - and in a much safer way!

The alternative procedure was discussed and approved. Zlatan was praised for his courage to stop a potentially unsafe job.

The satellite assistant and construction supervisor were praised for their assessment and proposed solution. And the whole team got soft drinks and candy.

By the way, it was confirmed from onshore that the beam can stand two MT per section!

Zlatan was praised for his courage to stop a potentially unsafe job.

N ews in brief

“We should step back and think before we act” New colleague – Marcelo Santux.

track record and is recognized for a culture engaged in people,” Marcelo Santux says.

His previous engagement with DNV, for whom he worked for 16 years in Brazil and Angola as well as globally with consulting services, was also a reason for choosing a fellow Scandinavian company:

Marcelo Santux is 41 years old, married and father of a two-year old daughter. He lives in central Esbjerg.

Marcelo Santux, Brazilian Process Safety Advisor, is new to Maersk Oil as from September 1st but by no means new to the oil and gas industry.

He is employed with the HSE Department, and he brings vast experiences from different companies – DNV and most recently BP - and working positions with risk management, technical safety and process safety areas.

“My main drive in choosing Maersk Oil is the opportunity to work with a well recommended and respected company. Maersk Oil has a good

“Both DNV and Maersk Oil are operating on an international level, but they both have kept a Scandinavian style in regard to respecting people in general and employees in particular. They also possess a strong culture based on values that I can easily match with my own values,” he says.

Although Marcelo Santux has only been with Maersk Oil for a very short period, he has already identified one area where Maersk Oil can improve.

“On the process safety management area a key step is the planning, and this requires staying in the think mode for a while! In Denmark we go to the solution mode very quickly, and while that may be good in many cases, stepping back, analyzing different solutions, assessing and managing their risks and planning how to implement a single option is something we could benefit from,” he says.

Deadline on the next number of SafetyNews is 20th February 2014.

Follow up examination

Towards vision zero In the period from 10 April to 25 May Hanna B. Rasmussen carried out a survey for offshore employees.

See also the article on this subject in SafetyNews 1/2014.

Among the replies submitted Hanna drew the following winners: Cinema tickets:

Kim Brian Kristensen Søren Nielsen Thomas Steinmeier Ole Ovesen

Stays at an inn: Jon Fossa Flemming Michalsen Jens Jacob Ditlev

Mini iPad: Jesper Krogh Jens Ole Pedersen

We thank all participants and congratulate the winners. Still, Kim Kristensen and Ole Ovesen have not yet come forward to collect their prizes; if they do not do so before December 30, 2014, we will draw some new winners in January 2015.

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N ews in brief

Take care of yourself in the dark traffic Autumn and winter bring dark and rain and steamy or iced up windows. Be sure that you are seen in the dark.

Praise and complaints Comments on Safety News, whether favourable or critical, are always welcome.

Please send to: safety@maerskoil.com

The coming of autumn and winter is a good opportunity to strike a blow for good and safe road culture for cyclists. You must, of course, drive safely, nicely and correctly all year round, but it is now when the car windows steam up or ice up and when rain and darkness can reduce visibility of drivers that you as a cyclist must be extra careful and make an extra effort to be seen.

The winner is‌ During the month of October, HSE carried out a survey on behalf of Maersk Oil Drilling Operations. The purpose was to find out the percentage of personnel with destination to one of the four drilling rigs, having participated in an Incident-Free session.

A prize was put up by Drilling Operations and the winner of the iPad has now been drawn.

The winner is Colin Probert, Northern Offshore.

You can get the reflexes in the HSE-department.

Thanks to all who took the time to participate in the survey.

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• Esvagt Promotor

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• Blue Orca

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• Atlantic Labrador

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• Atlantic Amsterdam 20.10.14 1 Y • Havila Herøy

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On 8 December 2014 Havila Herøy passed five years without LTIs.

On 8 October 2014 Blue Orca passed one year without LTIs.

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MY safety story

”At a construction site onshore I had probably just been told that I was soft” Rune Hansen got a twist in his back and was told to take a day on the couch. Otherwise he would have worked on.

On 16 August, Rune Hansen, a scaffolder on TYW, was moving some beams when he got a twist in his back: ”We were dismantling some scaffolding where I had to heft some timber up over the side. I twisted my body and there was a crack," says Rune Hansen.

This is not new to him. He has a crack like that once a year, last time when he was putting a roof on his house back home. And the work task could not be blamed: the timber weighed only 5 to 10 kg, so that was not the reason why it happened.

“Normally I never have a pain in my back, but once in a while there is a crack like that.

It was not too bad, but my colleagues said that I had to see the medic, and the medic told me to keep quiet. The rest of the day and the next morning I spent on the couch after which I went back to work - and I did not feel anything at all."

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Rune describes himself as a craftsman, and he is very aware that had he been a craftsman in many other places, he would never have taken a day off lying down. ”In any other job I would probably just have carried on. And I am certain that had I been working at a construction site when this happened, my other colleagues would have called me soft. But we are here - and we have learnt to take good care of each other. I told my colleagues that I could easily continue with my work - but they said: Do remember that we go and see the medic when something is wrong. This is Maersk Oil, you see, so I did. And I am happy that I listened to them. It is nice to have colleagues who take care of you. Sometimes one forgets it. It is not soft to take care of oneself," says Rune Hansen.

Remember, -real men take care of themselves.

Rune Hansen, scaffolder on Tyra West

If you or your loved ones have a story you would like to share and believe there is a learning experience for us all, we invite you to contact us. Any story with the topic of personal relationship to Incident-Free and our safety commitments will be much appreciated. Contactmail: conny.villadsen@maerskoil.dk We will have a prize for the colleague whose story we bring.