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14 July 2008 saw us reach the milestone of two years without an LTI (Lost Time Incident) onboard the Smit Kamara which - after sea trials, performance reviews and acceptance testing, including competency assessment of the OAS operators - the unit was accepted into SNS operations in 2006.
We are enormously proud of this achievement which has been accomplished by a major team effort involving many participating companies – Offshore Solutions B.V., ONEgas (Shell), SMIT, URS, ESS and AJS V.o.F.
The OAS system and this new way of working has now been fully established within the Southern North Sea ONEgas asset and continues to improve manpower productivity and safety on Normally Unmanned Installations.
With the introduction in early 2006 of the ‘missing link’ to allow safe marine access from a vessel to an offshore installation, the first operational Offshore Access System and its operators gain first class recognition. Quoting Tom Botts, Executive Vice President Europe for Shell:
“Kamara Team: let me add my congratulations as well. Often we celebrate long periods of 'zero' safety performance in mature, stable operations. Or we celebrate the successful execution of a new game changing innovation. But you have given us the opportunity to celebrate BOTH excellent safety performance in the successful execution of a game changing innovation.”