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Lord Cullen pictured with a model of the wreckage of the Piper Alpha at the inquiry at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in 1989.
Lord Cullen pictured with a model of the wreckage of the Piper Alpha at the inquiry at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in 1989.

Piper Alpha: Cullen Report left no stone unturned

Piecing together precisely what happened, why it happened and how to prevent another Piper Alpha happening again took Lord Cullen two years and 400 pages. The impact can be seen across the industry today and his verdict on the present state of offshore safety continues to hold great weight.

The remains of Piper Alpha smouldering on July 8 1988.

Piper Alpha: Have we learned the lessons?

One of the key questions posed repeatedly in the decades since the Piper Alpha disaster is: could it happen again? The head of a leading safety group and a senior trade unionist give their verdicts.

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Dave Gorman, who died on Piper Alpha when his son Shane was 18.

Piper Alpha: I was 18 when my dad died

Shane Gorman was just 18 when the Piper Alpha tragedy unfolded, with his father Dave being among the 167 people to lose their lives.

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