The Importance of Safety in Offshore Training: Insights from Mark McDonald
Health & Safety is not an outsourced add-on at Atlas NextWave. Our Health & Safety Manager, Mark McDonald, works directly with our teams, contractors and clients to strengthen safety awareness, identify recurring risks and support practical improvements in the working environment.
Having dedicated Health & Safety expertise inside a workforce organisation is a key differentiator. It means we can go beyond supplying people and bring specialist safety knowledge into the wider client partnership.

Zero Harm is designed to support safer work before, during and after an assignment. We help prepare people for the environments they are entering, reinforce critical safety expectations, encourage active participation in safety and use observations and lessons learned to identify where further action may be needed.
Prepare
Help people arrive better informed, more safety aware and ready for the environment they are entering.
Engage
Build a workforce that actively contributes to safety by speaking up, intervening and participating in safety conversations.
Learn
Use workforce observations and feedback to understand what is happening on projects and where attention is needed.
Improve
Work with clients to turn safety insight into practical actions that strengthen performance and reduce recurring risks.
Our in-house Health & Safety expertise allows us to work directly with client operational and safety teams, not just support our own contractors. Through regular performance reviews, safety conversations, workforce observations and trend analysis, we can help identify recurring risks and where further action may be needed.
Where a pattern emerges, we can go deeper, looking at behaviours, supervision, processes and the wider working environment to help shape targeted safety initiatives around the real issue.

Not every safety concern can be solved with more training. If recurring incidents, behaviours or observations point to a wider issue, the underlying cause may sit in supervision, processes, communication or the working environment itself.
With dedicated in-house HSE expertise, Atlas NextWave can work with clients to understand what is driving the risk and help shape a targeted response around the specific rig, vessel, site or project. This is where workforce insight becomes a wider HSE solution.

Explore the latest thinking, initiatives and practical guidance from our Health & Safety team.