Offshore Safety, Human Factors & Life Offshore

Offshore safety is not just about PPE, paperwork, or compliance. It is about how people think, lead, communicate, and look after each other in high-risk environments at sea.

In this episode of Sea Views, host Julia Gosling is joined by Adam Parnell and guest Gordon Foot, MNM FNI - Offshore Client Representative, an offshore operations professional with decades of experience across Royal Navy submarines, oil and gas, subsea work, cable operations, renewables, offshore wind, marine construction, and high-hazard maritime environments.

Gordon shares how a career that began in submarines developed into a wide-ranging life offshore, working with large construction vessels, international teams, evolving technology, and complex operations where safety cannot be treated as a bolt-on. It has to be lived.

The discussion moves from offshore safety culture and lessons learned from major maritime and hydrocarbon incidents to human factors, resilience, self-awareness, leadership, connectivity at sea, seafarer welfare, and why the next generation needs to understand the scale of opportunity within the blue economy.

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