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Falck Safety Services says 'training has moved a long way since Piper Alpha'

Falck Safety Services, a world leader in the offshore and maritime sector, welcomes a newly published influential report into the oil and gas market, and says safety training has moved a long way since the Piper Alpha disaster.

This follows the publication today (August 21st) of Oil & Gas UK’s 2013 Economic Report. The report highlights how the renewed commitment from government and industry to extract oil and gas from the UK’s Continental Shelf (UKCS) is succeeding in promoting investment to an all-time record of £13.5 billion this year.

Falck Safety Services, which provides safety training for delegates from the oil and gas, renewables, shipping, defence and aviation industries worldwide and has UK centres in Teesside and Scotland, welcomed the renewed confidence in the sector. This comes as a result of investment by government and industry in the sector’s business environment.

Falck Safety Services, which delivers safety training to over 260,000 people each year, is currently embarking on a programme of investment to meet the safety training needs of international clients working in increasingly hostile and difficult working environments.

Colin Leyden, Managing Director of Falck Safety Services, said: “The contents of this report are fantastic news for the industry. Standards are a focus for all and we see a great emphasis from our customers on ensuring these standards are maintained and improved. This new climate of positivity has given investors the confidence to develop new fields and redevelop older fields, so we are now seeing the highest-ever levels of investment. Renewed confidence is serving to increase investment and business opportunities for the UK’s first- class supply chain and is boosting employment to 450,000 jobs across Britain.”

The UK’s world-class supply chain now generates sales of £27 billion a year, including £7 billion in exports. It is considered a world leader in subsea engineering which is worth £9 billion a year and holds 45 per cent of that global market.

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