Piper Alpha 25 years on

摘要

The Piper Alpha survivor recalled receiving a safety orientation - 10 years earlier. But not that day Not 6 July 1988, the date of the worst tragedy in the E&P industry, when 167 workers perished. The North Sea was a different place a quarter-century ago. "I feel sure (that) industry had not realized the enormity of hazard potential out there," Steve Walker, head of strategic intervention, HSE Energy Division, told DC. Piper Alpha was no outlier, in other words. No major-hazard legislation existed. Workforce engagement and procedures for permittingwork and emergency response were conspicuously absent.