Everyone has a right not to be injured at work

Thursday December 9, 2010 at 10:39am

A company operating on the North Sea installation Schlumberger Oilfield UK PLC was fined £300,000 for exposing its workers to the risk of radiation exposure.

The breach of health and safety law took place on a rig in Dundee in April 2008. Schlumberger had been contracted to undertake wireline logging operations as part of the Maersk drilling programme for the Cawdor well. Altogether 14 workers were placed at risk of radiation exposure. Read the full HSE press release

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