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STUC Conference ’18 / 16 April 2018
‘Don’t forget Piper Alpha’s lessons’
Conrad Landin
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THE lessons of the Piper Alpha disaster are being forgotten 30 years on, the Scottish TUC Congress heard yesterday.

An explosion and oil and gas fires on the North Sea drilling platform claimed 167 lives on July 6 1988.

The deaths led to the establishment of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee trade union (Oilc), which is now a section of transport union RMT.

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