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How do you break into offshore H&S without offshore experience?
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Gareth, I am attempting the self same thing. Just completed BOSIET / MIST / and Medical and also done Banksman / Slinger level 1. ( At a company called Survivex in Aberdeen 7 straight days approx £ 1600 ). This is to hopefully enable me to start as a rigger ( lowest job on rig ) and then use my charm and wit to escalate to a H & S role. It also helps enormously if you have friends or family in the industry. On another note, Archer Drilling have recently got some new contracts and are looking for staff, why not google and send a C.V, you never know.
Kenny
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Cheers for the advice Kenny, appreciated.
Gareth
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Ha, wouldnt say its the lowest job on the rig, thats a roustabout, you get some poor machinsits too. Any rigger worth his salt is noticed, poor ones get bumped. As fot the North Sea, its booming ! :D
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Your chances of going straight into an offshore safety role is about zero. You will need some kind of experience first, such as any trade, including Roustabout, from where you can progress to safety role. You can also go the route of getting an onshore job with an oil related company which involves offshore visits, such as auditing, training, etc. This will give you some relvant exposure and you can take it from there.
KCA Deutag are also looking for people, as well as Archers and you could try Odfjell
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Agreed Rocky, Roustabout was what I was meaning...
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Gents, aim for the office, not the offshore platform and keep your options open. There's more to offshore than oil rigs.
Don't waste your time re-training as a rigger etc, use your existing H&S experience to land a job in the project office. This gives you more options, subsea construction, marine, heavy lift vessels etc as well as platforms and FPSOs.
You can still make the money without the inconvenience of having to spend 2 weeks on a cold platform in the middle of the North Sea.
More and more I'm starting to see offshore medics and other personnel fulfilling the role of HSE coordinator in addition to their other duties. I think the traditional offshore safety officer will eventually be phased out.
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I would suggest that you still get some legitimate time offshore. I have worked both in the office, as well as offshore, in the SHEQ field and can assure you, it's usually easy to tell who knows what they're talking about and those who do it all out of a book. There can be a massive disconnect between what 'town' think happens and what is actually happening at the worksite, as well as what's actually achievable in the restrictive environments that prevail in the offshore workplace. While I'm not detracting from what some may try to achieve, I have found myself trying to implement and enforce policies and procedures which are unworkable and then having to defend the originators of these, knowing full well that they don't have any understanding of the job or challenges presented in carrying it out.
It is sad to think that the role of Safety Officer, Offshore HSE Advisor, STC or whatever you want to call it, may be on it's way out. I have worked on platforms and rigs where safety is foisted onto the Medic, along with hotel services, cabin allocation, heli-admin and of course any Medic duties, and you soon find things falling between the cracks as the poor Medic is swamped with work which they have no time or training or experience in.
Just my thoughts, good luck with whatever route you follow.
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Thanks all for your replies, i'll think long and hard about whats been said and decide if that's the route i wan't to take.
Regards
Gareth
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