The Digging Threat: Why Third-Party Excavation Remains the Pipeline Industry’s Biggest Safety Challenge
The vast network of underground pipelines—carrying everything from natural gas and crude oil to refined petroleum products—is the invisible engine of modern industry. Pipeline safety is synonymous with integrity, and for decades, the single greatest external threat to that integrity has not been corrosion, fatigue, or natural disaster, but the accidental strike from a third-party […]
Mitigating the Highest Risk: Ensuring Crew Safety in Maritime Enclosed Spaces
The vast majority of maritime incidents—collisions, groundings, and environmental damage—are linked to human error. However, a specific class of accident remains disproportionately deadly and is an urgent focus for global maritime safety bodies: accidents in enclosed spaces. An enclosed space on a vessel is any area that has limited openings for entry and exit, poor […]