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Offshore fitness


Alison Bledge examines how the offshore industry is managing the health and wellbeing of its workforce, and looks at a new fitness facility onboard accommodation vessel Safe Scandinavia


T


he offshore environment can be an extremely inhospitable place where the health and fitness of the workforce


can determine survival rates in an emergency situation. As a result, there’s a growing focus on promoting the advantages of a healthy lifestyle within the UK offshore industry. Offshore workers can be away


from home for several weeks, so the comfort and wellbeing of this highly skilled workforce is also paramount. Living onboard a semi-submersible


Safe Scandinavia is one of around 20 semi-submersible ‘flotels’ in the world


accommodation vessel, which acts as a floating hotel that attaches to an oil rig, workers have access to a range of high standard facilities that introduce an element of creature comfort to the remote life at sea. Safe Scandinavia, currently operating


in the Norwegian Snorre oil field in the North Sea, is one such vessel. It offers rig workers a host of recreation and welfare facilities including a cinema, sauna, social areas, offices, internet café, galley and mess areas – and, crucially for the all-important health


and fitness levels, a gymnasium. This scope of offering is typical to most


‘flotels’, which are frequently used for platform commissioning as well as repair and modification work. Safe Scandinavia is one of


approximately 20 semi-submersible flotels in the world and is operated by Prosafe, the world’s leading owner and operator of semi-submersible accommodation and service vessels. It has accommodation capacity for 583 people for worldwide operations, or for 292 single beds for Norwegian


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