Equinor – Tjeldbergodden – follow-up of order and follow-up of incidents

Objective

The objective of the audit was to follow up Equinor’s handling of an order issued on 25 January 2021 subsequent to an audit of materials handling, cranes and lifting in October 2020.

In addition, we wanted to monitor how Equinor has secured learning and experience sharing from incidents across the onshore facilities.

Follow-up of previous non-conformities

As stated in our audit notice, as part of this audit, we verified how the company has addressed specific previously identified non-conformities and resulting orders. We found that the following non-conformity had not been addressed in line with the company’s feedback:

• Non-conformity regarding deficient organisation of working conditions for the maintenance and handling of scaffolding materials, from chapter 5.1.4 of the report following the audit of 23 October 2020.

Result

No non-conformities or improvement points were identified during this audit.

What happens next?

We have asked Equinor to report on how the follow-up of previous non-conformities will be addressed.