Fears for Safety of Offshore Workers

The Sunday Telegraph recently reported that oil and gas workers in the British sector of the North Sea are more at risk of death and suffering serious accidents than Norwegian workers a few miles away, according to Norway’s PSA, the equivalent of Britain’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Unsafe Work Systems

A metal engineering company was last week fined following an accident involving one of its employees.

The employee was helping guide a heavily loaded forklift truck when it tipped over, causing its load of angle irons to land on him. He suffered serious fractures to his leg.