Twenty-five years on, the Piper Alpha disaster, in which 167 people lost their lives, still serves as a lasting reminder of the highly hazardous environment of the oil and gas industry.
Statistics from a recent report commissioned by the HSE and published by Oil and Gas UK, state that the offshore oil and gas industry is continually performing better than many other dangerous industrial environments, achieving 35% better performance.
However this statistic does not come easily, and should not leave anyone with the impression that there isn’t still hard work to be done to sustain it and continually improve. It takes leadership and passion at all levels of an organisation to build on these figures, helping to eliminate risks within the highly hazardous environment.
