Mark Campbell-Howes, Maersk Drilling: Drilling industry needs dedicated voice on process safety; guidelines forthcoming to drive implementation

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WHEN MARK CAMPBELL-HOWES, Director, Head of HSSE Development at Maersk Drilling, left his hometown of Inverness, Scotland, and moved to Aberdeen in 2006, it was one of the biggest risks he had ever taken. After graduating in 2003 from England's Newcastle University with a degree in chemical and process engineering, he had begun a steady job with a camping equipment distributor. He left that job to start a career in the oil and gas sector even though he did not have any experience in this industry. "I looked at my friends working in oil and gas and wondered if I could get a piece of the action for myself," he said. For a time, Mr Campbell-Howes stayed in a house with five former classmates from Scotland's Nairn Academy, where he graduated in 1999. Six weeks after arriving in Aberdeen, Mr Campbell-Howes joined KCA Deutag as an HSE Administrator, tasked with managing the company's incident statistics database. "I began to learn more about the way HSE incidents were categorized and reported," he said. "I wanted to understand why things didn't go as planned."