Cosalt Offshore Scoop Award for Promoting a Healthier Workplace

Cosalt Offshore, a provider of lifting, tooling and marine services to the oil and gas industry, has received an award for efforts to boost health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Cosalt Offshore was awarded the Bronze Healthy Working Lives standard by the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives after taking a number of steps to improve the health and wellbeing of their staff. The company has run quarterly campaigns on health and safety, environmental issues and off the job safety to help them on their way to gaining this prestigious award.


(LtoR) Hilary Fleming, Workplace Health Improvement Advisor for NHS Grampian with Lauren Crichton, HSE Administrator at Cosalt Offshore.

Campaigns covered themes such as chemical safety, where leaflets were produced to help raise awareness of Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) symbols, the safe storage of chemicals and safe use of chemicals in the home. This is just one example of the kind of work that has been undertaken over the past three years.

On the environmental side, Cosalt has participated in a Zero Waste Scotland Resource Efficiency Review to identify how they could further reduce waste. Since this review the company is now recycling more than half of all waste generated at its Aberdeen sites including wood, plastics, metal and packaging waste.

Staff have also participated in a health needs survey, the results of which have been developed into an action plan for implementation over the coming two years.

Janet Easthope, HSE Manager at Cosalt Offshore, said: “To receive a Healthy Working Lives award is a really fantastic achievement. The staff at Cosalt have made a real effort to get involved. We are all very proud to have been given such recognition and plan to continue the good work to go on to gain a Silver award in the future.”

The Healthy Working Lives Award Programme was launched to encourage employers to promote a healthier workforce and covers a wide range of topics including health promotion, occupational health and safety, employability, mental health and wellbeing, community involvement, and health and the environment.

Steve Bell, Strategic Director at the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives said: “I would like to congratulate Cosalt on their efforts to improve their health and wellbeing. Workplaces have an important role to play in improving our nation’s health. Working towards and achieving the Healthy Working Lives awards helps businesses to improve and sustain the health, safety and wellbeing of their workforce.”

Cosalt Offshore has 240 personnel based in Aberdeen with additional bases in Norway. The company has an established reputation for delivering the highest standards of service and their team of multi-skilled engineers in a pan-North Sea network are dedicated to serving the needs of its clients.

The company supplies a full range of lifeboats and marine safety equipment to fit the individual requirements of customers and also handles commissioning, testing and installation work, as well as servicing.

The Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives was established in 2006, and is the national centre for expertise in Scotland in relation to protecting and improving the health of those in work.