Safety Alert
Safety Alert 353 - Offshore Employees Fall Through Grating and Open Hole
Safety Alert 353 - Offshore Employees Fall Through Grating and Open Hole
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 353
- Slips, Trips and FallsWorking at Height
- Falls from heightStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenanceWorking at height
- Fall protection equipment
- Fall preventionJob safety analysisOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
This alert describes two offshore incidents involving displaced grating and a mistakenly lifted well hatch cover. One operator was missing; another employee fell approximately 90 feet to a lower deck. With causes still under investigation, BSEE recommends inspections and consideration of barricades, hole watches, secure flooring, fall protection and task-specific hazard analysis.
Classifications: Falls from height; fall from height.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Working at height; work at height.
Classifications: Fall protection equipment; safety harness; fall arrest equipment.
Classifications: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 353. Themes: slips, trips and falls, working at height.