HSE Shared Experiences Platform

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

Breaking of Lifting Accessories During Hoisting

While lifting a load, the swivel hook connecting the rigid excavator hook to the chain failed.

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.

Accident while lifting a pallet with slings

As part of Micro-tunneling works extra bentonite was required and a Hiab truck was dispatched to Pipeyard 6 to collect…

Road Traffic Accident

When a project vehicle was transferred the front tire and spare tire were both damaged.

Steering Trailers

Steering trailers are designed to help rigid loads manipulate corners more effectively and are heavily used in the transportation of…

Dropped Scaffold Toe Board

During the dismantling of the scaffolding inside the compressor building a piece of scaffold toebord was dropped and hit a…

Waste Management

51% reduction in the costs spent on food waste disposal. By product was used during rehabilitation of the construction camps.

Damaged underground cable

The underground CCTV cable was damaged in the Process Area during mechanical excavation.

Guidance: How to wash Hands (in German)

Beslenme ve Sağlık Önerileri

Prevention Measures COVID-19 (in German)

Normalizasyon Süreci Bilgilendirme

Prevention Plan COVID-19 (in German)

Road Safety – Precautions in vehicles

Reporting Trail COVID-19 (in German)

Gasunie Measures Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Checklist for entering Customer Home or Business

Prevention and Management of COVID-19 Emergency

Nota de Prensa (in spanish)

COVID-19 Protocol Version 2.0

Prevention and Risk Management SARS-COV-2 – Busseto Headquarters

 IGU Pandemic Operations Toolkit

Guidance on Volontary Face Mask Use

Information – Sanitary Measures to Apply – Mitry-Mory

SSI Partners with Texo to Provide Coronavirus Screening Stations

COVID-19 Daily Questionnaire

Les gestes barrières – Tous mobilisés ! (in french)

Managing a crisis: Covid-19 and the threat to Critical National Infrastructure

Coronavirus Awareness Poster

Guide collaborateur pour la reprise d’activité (in french)

Prevention and Control to Natural Gas Infrastructure Supply Chain

INGAA Foundation Offers Guidance for COVID-19

Wash Hand Poster

Protecting yourself and others, cleanliness and hand hygiene

Construction Safety & Quality Consensus Guidelines (revision 1)

INGAA Foundation Offers Guidance for COVID-19

Precautionary Measure – Social Distancing – Alternate Work Arrangements

Split the workforce into 2 or more teams to minimize any physical interaction, so that only half or less of…

Washing hands, travel and coping with stress during the 2019-nCoV outbreak

Construction Safety & Quality Consensus Guidelines

INGAA Foundation Offers Guidance for COVID-19.

Hygiene Rules for Protection from Airbone Infectious Diseases 1 (in German)

Coronavirus Symptoms

Offshore Energy Update

Hygiene Rules for Protection from Airbone Infectious Diseases 2 (in German)

MythBusters

The Safe Six: Workplace Readiness Essentials

Recomendation how to put a Mask on Face (in German)

Coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCOV) – Instructivo de Medidas Preventivas (in spanish)

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Australian Upstream Oil & Gas Industry Protocols -ONSHORE

Recomendation how to remove a Mask from Face (in German)

Getting our Workplace ready for COVID-19 (in spanish)

Assessment of Security Situation for COVID-19 (in German)

Algoritması

Flash-fire Accident onboard pipe-lay barge

During pipelaying activities, Injection Molded Polypropylene (IMPP) equipment, in coating station, got stuck.

Streicher’s drilling fluid RECYCLE plant

Horizontal drillings have a high environmental sustainability, as a trenchless laying of pipelines and cables is made possible. However, this…

Sideboom golden rules

Sideboom is one of the most used heavy equipment in our activities. The loads lifted by and the movements of…

Seatbelt use verification

One of the main causes of injuries sustained as a result of road accidents is the failure to use seat…

Use of Biologically Degradable Lubricants

Ensuring that there is no danger of toxicity in case of accidental spill becomes a priority for anyone who wants…

Employee going under an excavator

The operator must always switch off the engine and the controls. Only then the zone between the caterpillars can be…

Winter hazard: black ice

Protection of underground utilities

Working near underground services including live electrical cables is a high risk activity.

T-Rex & Safety Revolution

With the aim of enhancing Safety during operations Bonatti chose to design and manufacture an innovative type of pipe layer:…

Fatality during prescribed treatment

A driver for the project Shalapa (Mexico) since 2015, had a car accident.

Working adjacent to the edge of trench

Fall from edge of a trench is one of the major risk on the pipeline projects which could lead to…

Hand injury when pulling a cable

Collapsed Trench Wall Resulting in a Fatality

Rigger struck by a steel wire rope

Winch Cable Damage

Choker belts

Pipe falling during stringing (June)

Human-Machine interface and pinch points

Pipe falling during stringing (April)

Installing or removing dozer blades

Additional fire-fighting equipment

Safety Tag for lifting parts

Spiecapag has defined a "safety tag or flag" format for the pin of sensitive lifting elements.

Fire during generator maintenance

Parking brake release

Chemical burn to skin

Off-the-job Safety campaign

TEKFEN conducted a series of trainings, to raise awareness about the possible hazards of pipeline construction.

Bee, wasp and hornet sting

It’s a good practice to be informed about the risks and preventive measures to be applied in this kind of…

Asset Modification

Giant Hogweed

End facing attachment

Leptospirosis

Pressurising a pipe section

Electrocution while interchanging the phases of an energized female socket

A fatal accident occurred at a CCC Project in Qatar when an electrician was electrocuted to death while interchanging the…

Norovirus

Arm laceration placing stemming

Go-Green 100% Portable Power Cabin

Use solar technology and recyclable ecofriendly material to set up a conventional portable power cabin that will be fully equipped…

Pigging alert

Driving in adverse weather conditions

Working under overhead utilities

Burst of hydrotest header

Unloading I-beam

Pipe layer rolls off trailer

Excavator straddling an excavation

Vehicle rollover on to side

Pipe spool fell down and hit a person

Pipe transport with trailers

Waterline Damage

Skid steer loader (bob cat) near miss

Working on a vertical Sabre Blast unit

Railroad near miss

Hand hazard using ATV winches

Welder hit by an excavator

Nose laceration while pulling skid hook

Retrofitted mini-vans/busses

Lower hook block and upper sheave dropped to grade from sideboom

Dropped flange due to sling failure

The Eagle-Trainer programme

The use of videos recorded by drones for training and awareness of personnel on project.

Commuting road traffic accident

Employee pinned by pipe

Excavator Rollover

Abrasive blasting hose fittings and attachments

Crane falling from trailer during unloading operation

Installing a hammer attachment to an excavator

Failure of a 3-tonne lifting belt

Focus on monthly awareness – Complacency

Driver hit by a truck moving backward

Grinder accident

Rigging injury

Changes to cut protection standards

Machine guarding

4 Blocker incident

Uncontrolled movement of pipe

Fall into a benched excavation

Rollover of a sideboom on a slope

Arm abrasion by grinder

Wire rope ruptures

Robot Road Safety Manager

Evaluation of drivers carried out by a robot instead of an officer.

Sideboom rollover

Face cut caused by using a grinder

Broken boom block pin

Working on steep slopes

Successive road traffic accidents

Worker receives second-degree burns from water pump

Finger trapped between a pipe and a clamp

Hidden risks of pipe loading attachment

Employee hit while crossing a road

Vehicle incident on the RoW

Global community project fund

Fluor is committed to creating sustainable communities where our employees live and work.

Burn injury while using a liquid propane torch

Mechanical failure on a sideboom

Fuel efficient driving techniques

Heat stress

Alegria do Ambriz project

One of the key drivers of Saipem’s success and recognition worldwide has always been the creation of long-term value.

Hammer line of fire

Pipe layer continues to boom in

Load securement for loads with potential to roll on trailer

Operative working at height without fall protection

Contribution to seasonal workers’ families and children

TEKFEN Social and Community Relation Team conducts consultation with the families, local authorities and NGO’s to conduct surveys and develop…

Auto ignition of foam trench breaker

Pipe slip

OHL damage

Electromagnetic field hazards – Regulation change

Compressed air/gas exposure

Rigging failure while offloading pipe

Pickup truck rollover

Bell holes construction

During construction activities of pipelines and plants, a several number of welds should be performed, mainly manually, inside the excavation.…

Mat platform for parking / HDD sites

Release of under pressure hose from the clamp

Unloading of a mobile cylinder trolley

Emergency Operation Center

Safety Map

Low Jump – High Risk: The Jump Scales Initiative

Bell holes construction

Fall from the platform of a truck

Overhead cables

Fall into trial pit

Portable Green Technologies

Work in hot climates

Design and construction of the Chinipas Slope pipeline crossing

Work at height incident

Exothermic reaction of polyurethane foam

Standing in the hammering line of fire

Failure to use grit blasting nozzle

Pressure hose failure

Dengue fever

IMPP purging incident

Community capacitation programme

Promise Me campaign

Promotion of entrepreneurship opportunities

Falsification of documents

Overhead services

The Belt System

Soil contamination with epoxy coating

Frac-walks

Hand contacted by grinding brush

Fall from a high pipe-carrying truck

Hand held grinders

Unsecured auger on float trailer

Use of a pneumatic screwdriver

Propane gas explosion / fire

Incorrect pressure gauge on high pressure supply line

Controls in excavators

Off loading operation during wet and rainy conditions

Overhead Powerline Incident

Snapped wire cable of piling rig

Dewatering in a pressure regulating station

Capsizing of a pipe layer’s crane into a trench

Excavation work

Fatal accident between to pay-welders

Encouraging a fair return for all

Finish Strong initiative

Rupture of a buried electrical cable

Workshop oil supply

Removable guardrail for pipelayers and tractors

Gas cylinder fall

Contamination of confined space with hazardous gases

REMAR project

Employment and site work skills management

Global commitment to corporate Social Responsibility

Camp fire

Electrical safety

Debris flow