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Collaboration Drives Safety Leadership At HeliOffshore

In less than three years, HeliOffshore has transformed the offshore helicopter industry's approach to safety.

HeliOffshore’s work to create best practices for health and usage monitoring systems (HUMs) helped pave the way for a PHI-operated Sikorsky S-92 to become the first aircraft to use a new real-time HUMS system last week.

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

March 9, 2017

In October 2014, five of the world’s leading helicopter operators combined forces to form HeliOffshore in a bid to put competitive issues to one side to collectively enhance safety in the global offshore transport industry through collaboration. In less than three years, membership of the group has rapidly increased to almost 100 organizations from across Europe, North America, Africa, Russia and Asia.

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