Safety is priority number one and our goal is zero injuries – of any kind. Cooperation and learning are the most important tools for achieving this goal.
"It could’ve gone badly; he was struck square in the chest by an object weighing more than one tonne".
Jannicke Nilsson is the Executive Vice President of Safety, Security and Sustainability at Equinor. She is reminiscing about one of her first runs as OIM, in the early 2000s. Preparations were under way for a drilling operation; the incredibly heavy unit was being lifted, and then it happened. Thankfully, the offshore worker came away unscathed, but it could have gone so much worse.
"Witnessing how close we came to losing a life, that does something to you as a manager. I believe it’s important that we can talk about what went wrong. The person who was involved shared his experience directly with me and the management team after the fact. This allowed us to quickly learn important lessons from the incident", says Nilsson.