HSE Shared Experiences Platform

Temporary Works Design, Maintenance and Inspection

A sheet piled cofferdam was installed within 1.5m of a live railway line to facilitate gas pipeline strengthening works. Timbers,…

Unauthorized Use of Grinder Discs

During the cleaning of a weld, a tampered grinder was detected, in which two disks had been installed. This operation,…

Failure of the Crane Safety Valve

The crane was parked in the logistics area and available for collection by the supplier at the end of the…

Heavy Equipment Overturning and Operator Competence Assessment

Two incidents occurred in different projects involving a heavy equipment overturning or partially overturning without any injuries. The overturning of…

Grinding Disk Rupture

At the fabrication shop a manual welder was involved in welding activities of 24” pipes (35mm thickness): after the 1st…

Horizontal Directional Drilling Pipe Coil Trailer

In April 2023, a colleague working on the HS2 Area North project received fatal injuries when he was struck by…

Pipeline Tie-In Usung 14″ Remote Tecno Plug, Mechanical Clamp & Bisep

Permit to Work

On August 30th in Italy a very serious train accident occurred which resulted in the death of 5 workers belonging…

Excavation Earth and Rocks

Excavation earth and rocks refers to the excavated soil resulting from following activities: excavations in general (excavation, foundations, trenches); drilling,…

Temperature Humidity Index (THI)

Workers exposed to extreme heat while work in hot environments may be at risk of heat stress. Exposure to extreme…

Hazard Identification through the Energy Wheel

Research has shown that work crews typically identify and discuss less than half of the hazards that they actually encounter.…

Carbon footprints and the Role of Trees

SICIM has started a three-year collaboration with Treedom, the first web platform in the world that allows you to plant…

Use of Yo-yo

Self-retracting lifeline - Yo-yo - is a type of lanyard (individual fall arrest system) that allow the user to freely…

Underground Interferences

During the excavation for a 6” line, an excavator contacted an underground gas live pipeline causing a leakage of gas.…

Pipe Dropped on Rigger Foot

During the execution of lifting activities for the erection of pipe (24” 36m long) into the main pipe rack, the…

Electric Arc with OHL

In a cloudy and humid day, a sideboom was travelling under a High Voltage Overhead Power Line (10 kV) when…

Unsafe lifting with forklift

During the last month two similar near misses occurred concerning the lifting and transportation of one pipe and one metal…

Unsafe Parking of Diesel Tank Truck

A diesel tank truck was parked on a mild slope (less than 5° degrees). The driver parked his truck and…

Worker takes a rest in the bucket

After lunch break a worker sat in the front loader bucket to avoid an incoming sand storm and direct sunlight.…

Trench Wall Collapse

During tie-in activity of 16" Pipeline, Activity supervisor instructed the excavator operator to create a bell hole right under where…

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 12 – PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 11 – ALCOHOL & DRUGS

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 10 – INTERFERING SERVICES

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 9 – COMPETENCY & TRAINING

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 8 – CONFINED SPACES

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 7 – ENVIRONMENT

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 6 – SAFE DRIVING

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 5 – LIFTING

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 4 – MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 3 – EXCAVATION

SICIM GOLDEN RULE # 2 – WORKING AT HEIGHT

GOLDEN RULE # 1 – LINE OF FIRE

Falling Down of a Steel Beam

Loosening of steel beams from sheet pilling pit.

Falling of the Hoisting Load

Moving pipe string on an inclined terrain.

Hitting the Medium-Voltage Cable (MS-10KV) with a Long-reach Excavator Bucket

Excavation waterway crossing (sheet piling) around MS cable.

IPLOCA Golden Driving Rules

Carbon Footprinting – How to Calculate CO2 Emissions

This article covers the measuring and reporting of emissions. The ability to measure emissions in a reliable way is a…

Welding Tents

The welding tents are structures specifically designed and built for the automatic and manual welding phase of the pipelines in…

Pipe Cutting

Pipe cutting is one of the most hazardous process during Oil & Gas construction activities.

Line of Fire

Many high potential incidents and near misses on construction sites are due to non-compliance of the interdiction zones, called "line…

Buried Services

Underground services risk is ranked high both in probability, given its recurrence, and in the consequence potential severity, when buried…

Vehicles Parking on the Row

Accidents due to contact or impact between heavy equipment and / or vehicles.

Gas Cylinder Handling

Gas cylinders are often moved one by one from transportation rack to pay welder’s rack. A number of incidents –…

World Water during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hand hygiene is essential to containing the spread of COVID-19.

Working at Height

Safety tips for working at height.

COVID -19 Measures

Preventive measures for the management of COVID-19 Emergency

Damages to Overhead Power Lines During Transportation of an Excavator

While passing under existing overhead 33 KV energized power lines, the excavator boom made contact with the overhead power lines…

Rock Breaking

While rock breaking activity was ongoing, a piece of rock flew away with pressure and fell near appointed flagman for…

Trailer Load Fixing

During transportation of 3 pipes of 14-inch on dolly pipe trailer on a light slope one of the cargo lashing…

Collapsing Trench

While four workers were enlarging an 1,9 m deep trench to install Fiber Optic Cable, the excavation wall fell on…

Loading and Unloading of Heavy Equipment

A ramp detached from the trailer during the unloading of a sideboom. And during the pre-operation inspection a crack was…

Unsafe Rigging Practice

A subcontractor employee was working as a rigger and was part of the lifting crew that was tasked to loading…

Timber Skid Rupture

When lowering the pipe string from one end with the sideboom and after releasing the Choker Belt, the timber skids…

Ladder Losing Stability

While bending a pipe, the bending machine operator climbed up a ladder to take some measurement. The ladder lost stability…

Pipe Alignment

During the installation of the internal clamp for the alignment of a hot formed bend, the pipe suddenly tilted while…

Injuries While Getting off Heavy Equipment

Two incidents occurred in two different sites during the getting off heavy equipment. In the first case the consequence was…

Defective Circular Brushes

During the course of a project, some Near Misses were notified regarding the abnormal rupture of circular brushes used for…

Fire Incident in Confined Space

During the welding of a pup piece to a 31 Tons valve in a block valve station, a welder got…

Bending Machine Lifting

After lifting the bending machine few centimetres, the rear section of the bending machine tilts to the left. The supervisor…

Off-The-Job Safety Handbook

Booklet promoting off-the-job safety awareness.