INDUSTRY 02 - UPSTREAM & DOWNSTREAM
OIL & GAS SAFETY EQUIPMENT
Offshore platforms, onshore fields and refinery turnarounds all run on temporary cabling, hoses and lifting gear that has to survive vibration, weather and 24/7 traffic. CableSafe keeps that gear off the deck and off the walkway, so a routine shift doesn’t turn into a recordable incident.
THE SITUATION ON SITE
During a platform turnaround or a well pad build-out, the number of active leads on the ground can triple overnight: welding leads, air hoses, temporary lighting strings, instrumentation cable, ROV umbilicals. Every one of them is a trip hazard the moment it crosses a walkway, a stair tower or a laydown area, and on an offshore installation there is nowhere to reroute a cable except up.
Add height – derricks, flare booms, drilling floors, monkey boards – and the same congestion becomes a dropped-objects problem too. A dropped spanner from a drill floor or a hand tool from a platform crane deck can be fatal on the level below, which is why IADC and most major operators now require secondary retention on hand tools and equipment worked at height as standard practice, not an afterthought.
CableSafe’s role on an oil & gas site is to give the HSE team a standard kit they can specify once and deploy everywhere: non-conductive, corrosion-resistant cable protection that keeps leads off the floor, tool tethering and drop-prevention nets that stop objects at height from becoming falling objects, and confined space barriers for the tank entries, cellars and vessels that dot every process area.
COMMON HAZARDS
Cable & hose congestion during turnarounds
Short-duration work packages route dozens of temporary leads across the same walkways and stair towers other crews are using, multiplying slip and trip exposure exactly when headcount on site is highest.
Dropped objects from height
Derricks, drill floors, flare structures and platform crane decks put tools and hardware directly over occupied levels below – a dropped item at height is one of the leading causes of serious injury on upstream sites.
Unsecured confined space entries
Tanks, cellars, mud pits and process vessels require controlled, barriered entry points; an unmarked or unbarriered opening is a fall and atmospheric hazard that regulators treat as a top-tier compliance risk.
CABLESAFE SOLUTIONS
Kabelveiligheid
Route temporary cable and hose runs off the deck with 3-channel cable guards for light runs, 5-channel cable guards for bundled leads, and a heavy-duty cable stand to lift crossings clear of forklift and vehicle traffic on process roads.
Preventie van laten vallen voorwerpen
Secure tools and small hardware at height with a steel securing lanyard, catch what still gets dropped with a veiligheidsnet ter bescherming tegen vallen under derricks and platforms, and close off gaps with a combi-net around scaffolding and temporary structures.
Veiligheid in besloten ruimtes
Mark and barrier every open entry with a snelle afzetting voor mangaten, control tank and vessel access with a toegangsbeveiliging voor mangaten, and cover pits and open trenches with a afdeknet until permitted work is complete.
BUILT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT JUST THE CHECKLIST
Equipment on an oil & gas site has to earn its place twice: once on the safety case, and once against salt spray, UV, chemical splash and the sheer physical abuse of a working platform or well pad. CableSafe’s cable guards and barriers use corrosion-resistant, non-conductive materials so they hold up offshore and stay safe to use near live electrical work and instrumentation.
Because kit gets deployed and struck down repeatedly across a turnaround schedule, everything in the CableSafe range is designed to go up and come down fast with a small crew, and to survive being reused across the next shutdown rather than being written off after one campaign.
WHY HSE TEAMS ON UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM SITES SPECIFY CABLESAFE
Westmark B.V., the company behind CableSafe, has been supplying safety hardware to industrial and offshore sites since 1991 – long enough to know that a solution has to survive a real turnaround schedule, not just a product photo.
Our cable guard and barrier ranges are built to the same standards your safety officer already checks against: EN 1263-1 for netting systems, and the general secondary-retention and dropped-objects principles behind DROPS and IADC guidance for tools and equipment used at height.
Every product ships with the documentation your HSE file needs, and our team can spec a full kit list against your turnaround or shutdown scope so nothing gets improvised on the day.
40+ YRS
supplying industrial safety hardware
3 AREAS
cable, dropped objects & confined space
EU + VS
standards-aligned product range
1 DAY
typical dispatch from stock
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
SPECIFY ONCE, DEPLOY ACROSS EVERY TURNAROUND
Talk to our team about a standard kit for your platform, field or refinery – cable protection, drop prevention and confined space barriers specified against your own HSE requirements.