Offshore workers have been turning to weight loss jabs in order to keep their jobs ahead of new weight restrictions coming into force next week.

From November, updated guidelines published by trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) will require everyone working offshore to weigh less than 124kg (19.5st).

OEUK stated that the rule is required strictly on safety grounds, as it represents the maximum allowable weight for a person being winched into a helicopter during an emergency platform evacuation.

Since announcing the policy in 2025, the trade body said it has supported operators to identify and implement measures aimed at slimming down their offshore workforces.

OEUK health and safety leader Graham Skinner noted that this included a "wide uptake" of GLP-1 weight-loss jabs, with some employers installing additional refrigerators to store the medication.

However, he explained that weight-loss jabs are merely one of the measures workers are using to drop weight, rather than being treated as a "blanket…