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Safety Act has been received in a positive
way. The Act is part of a stepwise harmonization
of safety standards and requirements
to safety training. The new SSR-statement
will still require companies to have safety
certifi cations in each single land of operation,
but will clearly make it easier to move from
one country to another without applying for
new approvals, since the Safety and Health
statement is the same standard for all oil
producing countries in the North Sea.
Falck Nutec, STMS and other suppliers of
safety courses still see a need of a ”gap-analysis”,
taking into account local considerations
so that each individual trainee has been
trained to solve exactly the required task at
the actual location.
- In 1999 the term ”Mutual Recognition of
Safety Training” was introduced, where the
educational level of the trainee was anticipated,
but where a need was seen for supplemental
training to solve the tasks given. Instead
of starting from scratch each time, the trainee
is given supplemental training, and I see the
Offshore Safety Act as a good opportunity to
certify the Danish safety courses with respect
to an international certifi cation, Jens Viggo
Sørensen, operational manager of Falck
Nutec, states.
- And the next question might be, if there
some time in the future will be a standard for
conducting safety courses, which cover both
national and international standards - Jens
Viggo Sørensen continues.
50 Offshore Center Danmark
Yearbook 2008
With their base in Esbjerg, the Danish
branch of Falck Nutec is a good example of
the internationalization, which presently is
taking place within the offshore industry,
and more specifi cally within safety and
training, as a response to international requirements
for standardised safety courses,
certifi cation and training. From being a
local school for fi remen in the early 1990´s,
Falck Nutec Esbjerg is now part of an
international organization with 17 centers
for consultancy and training in a Danish
company operating worldwide.
Harmonized to
IADC-requirements
Each year, approximately 100,000 people
participate in one or more courses at the
Falck Nutec centers placed worldwide. Add
this the large number of people attending
the offshore courses of the other key course
vendor STMS based in Esbjerg, the number
of people trained in the offshore industry is
quite signifi cant. At Falck Nutec the topics
are offshore and maritime safety, ISPS
security, chemical training, crisis management,
and safety consultancy. Falck Nutec
presently cooperates with IADC – the
International Association of Drilling Contractors
– to develop a safety course, which
can be approved by international governing
bodies, and also a number of test courses
monitored by international authorities. ■
Simulation
of Crisis
Management
Coinciding with the new Offshore Safety Act,
Offshore Center Danmark has coordinated a
project attended by a numbers of its members
and a number of European institutions.
The project will strengthen the training and
response of personnel during oil spill catastrophes
and may later be extended to cover
safety scenarios, and is already being used for
training by the Danish Admiral Fleet.
In cooperation with several Esbjerg companies
and Norwegian RKK Rogaland, Spanish
Centro Jovellanos and the Estonian Maritime
Academy, Offshore Center Danmark has
coordinated a European project developing
the CMS2 web-based simulations trainer for
oil spill. CMS2 is based on real-life scenarios
supplied by the maritime authorities of the
participating countries. All relevant data are
collected and logged as a tool of communicating
and training in oil spill, with a later
evaluation of the response of the trainees by a
commander.
- The new legislation and the cooperation
amongst national and international companies
and institutions is a good illustration of
the attention and focus given to safety and
environment within the offshore industry. The
internationalization of this effort is important,
so that the offshore industry can demonstrate
that we do not only consider the safety and
environmental requirements set up by national
authorities, but also take international approach
to reduce the risks, Peter Blach, director
of Offshore Center Danmark, states.