Safety Alert
Safety Alert 365 - BSEE Identified Grating and Open Hole Hazards During Risk Based Inspections
Safety Alert 365 - BSEE Identified Grating and Open Hole Hazards During Risk Based Inspections
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 365
- Slips, Trips and FallsWorking at Height
- Falls from heightStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenance
- Fall preventionOperating and work proceduresSafety communicationStop-work authority
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
BSEE summarises risk-based inspections of 42 Gulf of Mexico facilities, identifying deficiencies in grating integrity, hatch procedures, barricades, orientation and emergency arrangements. Operators are asked to consider improved inspections, maintenance prioritisation, hazard communication, lone-worker checks and clearer stop-work arrangements to address grating and open-hole hazards.
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: Fall prevention; edge protection; guardrails.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The alert identifies hazardous grating conditions and open holes found during risk-based inspections.
BSEE Safety Alert 365. Themes: slips, trips and falls, working at height.