Fat workers not allowed offshore from next year

[matchmaker]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx274xp00zxo

BBC said:

Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore - or face losing their jobs.

From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker heading offshore should be 124.7kg (19.5 st) - so they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

The 249kg (39st) maximum Coastguard rescue helicopter winch load is made up of that figure plus the average 90.3kg (14st) weight of a rescue worker, a 29kg (4.5st) stretcher and the 5kg (0.8st) kit.

OEUK said more than 2,200 workers were currently above the weight limit, and jobs could be lost in the worst case scenario.

I'd have thought that working offshore would have been fairly physical.

[Furbo]

matchmaker said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx274xp00zxo

BBC said:

Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore - or face losing their jobs.

From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker heading offshore should be 124.7kg (19.5 st) - so they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

The 249kg (39st) maximum Coastguard rescue helicopter winch load is made up of that figure plus the average 90.3kg (14st) weight of a rescue worker, a 29kg (4.5st) stretcher and the 5kg (0.8st) kit.

OEUK said more than 2,200 workers were currently above the weight limit, and jobs could be lost in the worst case scenario.

I'd have thought that working offshore would have been fairly physical.

2200 workers above 19.5 stone? Bloody hell.

[cptsideways]

At least they can all afford the Flab Jab

[butchstewie]

Furbo said:

2200 workers above 19.5 stone? Bloody hell.

I assumed a level of fitness as I thought you had to do that helicopter swimming pool roll escape thing before you can go on a helicopter to those areas?

[Jasandjules]

Wait 19 stone is hardly slim ? Unless they are 6ft 5 roid ragers?!

[Furbo]

Jasandjules said:

Wait 19 stone is hardly slim ? Unless they are 6ft 5 roid ragers?!

I am running with - they aren't. I can imagine that a great many are tall and generally big lads, who have added to their mass with poor diet choices.

[pheonix478]

matchmaker said:

[maximum clothed weight for a worker heading offshore should be 124.7kg (19.5 st) ...more than 2,200 workers were currently above the weight limit

wtf! What do they do, stick the drill on the seabed and then lean on it?

Edited by pheonix478 on Friday 7th November 18:33

[Yahonza]

You won't find many vegetarians on the drill floor.

[LittleBobbyTables]

Yahonza said:

You won't find many vegetarians on the drill floor.

What with all the fatties I doubt you can see the drill floor.

[vetrof]

Jasandjules said:

Wait 19 stone is hardly slim ? Unless they are 6ft 5 roid ragers?!

I imagine all the gear they wear accounts for a decent chunk of the weight.

[eharding]

Yahonza said:

You won't find many vegetarians on the drill floor.

Well, the traditional categorisation of rig workers as variously Ginzels, Worms, Floorhands, Pumpers, Drillers, Chainhands, Company Men, Derrickmen, Lease Hands, Motormen, Piemunchers, Roughnecks, Roustabouts, Saladdodgers, Toolhands and Toolpushers might give some clues as to where particular attention needs to be applied.

[Derek Smith]

butchstewie said:

I assumed a level of fitness as I thought you had to do that helicopter swimming pool roll escape thing before you can go on a helicopter to those areas?

I did that test at Cranwell. The window we had to swim through was quite large, as was I, and I wore a wetsuit. I fitted without problems.

I say without problems, but the person in front of me had to have their hands pried from the windows after they froze. I remember seeing two scuba divers coming towards me, upside down to me, and I remember thinking it didn't look good. Eventually, they cleared the window and I swam out. There was a bloke behind me!

[pheonix478]

Yahonza said:

You won't find many vegetarians on the drill floor.

Have they been eaten?

[hidetheelephants]

matchmaker said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx274xp00zxo

BBC said:

Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore - or face losing their jobs.

From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker heading offshore should be 124.7kg (19.5 st) - so they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

The 249kg (39st) maximum Coastguard rescue helicopter winch load is made up of that figure plus the average 90.3kg (14st) weight of a rescue worker, a 29kg (4.5st) stretcher and the 5kg (0.8st) kit.

OEUK said more than 2,200 workers were currently above the weight limit, and jobs could be lost in the worst case scenario.

I'd have thought that working offshore would have been fairly physical.

Where are they buying their stretchers? From the Depleted Uranium and Tungsten Stretcher and Really Heavy Weight Co. Ltd? Our stretchers at work are a bit weighty at ~15kg, at double that they're becoming a distinct health hazard in their own right.

[gregs656]

hidetheelephants said:

Where are they buying their stretchers? From the Depleted Uranium and Tungsten Stretcher and Really Heavy Weight Co. Ltd? Our stretchers at work are a bit weighty at ~15kg, at double that they're becoming a distinct health hazard in their own right.

Recuse baskets are a bit more than a stretcher, and carry things (oxygen etc)

[Steve vRS]

It’s easy to see how weight can be a problem offshore. A lot of the roles are quite sedentary and all there is to do is eat. Plus all the time off in between rotations…..

I work offshore a bit and have to discipline myself not to eat like I’m on holiday.

[remedy]

It doesn't have to be fat though. A mate works offshore and he is a unit but with muscle.
I doubt he'll be too close to 19 but I can see how some could get very close with all the time they spend in the gym during downtime.

[PushedDover]

eharding said:

Yahonza said:

You won't find many vegetarians on the drill floor.

Well, the traditional categorisation of rig workers as variously Ginzels, Worms, Floorhands, Pumpers, Drillers, Chainhands, Company Men, Derrickmen, Lease Hands, Motormen, Piemunchers, Roughnecks, Roustabouts, Saladdodgers, Toolhands and Toolpushers might give some clues as to where particular attention needs to be applied.

on a Drill rig, but I think a lot of the chinky chaps are those on the staid huge production platforms with huge appetites.