Health & safety bulletin
Fixed Blade Knife Ban
31st December 2009
Please see link below to a self explanatory safety instruction from Esso.
From 1st January 2010 no fixed blade knives will be allowed on Esso sites. All blades must be self-retracting or enclosed. This is in response to several incidents recently where injuries have occurred caused by knives.
At Xmo Strata, we instigated an initiative to replace all fixed blade knives earlier in 2009 and you should all have been issued with self-retracting knives. If you have not received these, or find they are not suitable for a particular task, then contact your supervisor.
We have solutions to using fixed blade knives for every task on our JSA/SMS documents and therefore there should be no need to have any fixed blade knife on ANY Xmo site.
Under no circumstances are you to use fixed blade knives on any site.
Click here to download the bulletin (1116Kb PDF file)