UNIONS representing offshore workers in the North Sea have hit out at the leniency of the punishment handed out to an engineering firm which put workers at risk. 

Representatives from the RMT and Unite have raised concerns about the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) response to a serious safety incident in the offshore decommissioning sector.

Evidence last year showed an accident that occurred during decommissioning work carried out by contractor Ocean Kinetics on the Buchan Alpha rig in waters off Shetland.