Health & Safety Report 2016
HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2016
4.1.1 Personal Injuries and Fatalities Despite being a major hazard industry, the UK offshore oil and gas sector has a relatively low personal injury rate in comparison to many other sectors in the UK and it is below the UK’s all industries’ average (see figures below and opposite). The non-fatal injury rate is based on the over-seven-day and specified injury rate as well as population figures reported in the HSE’s annual Offshore Statistics and Regulatory Activity Report . The offshore population figures are taken from the Vantage Personnel On Board (POB) tracking system, while the figures for other industries come from the UK’s Annual Population Survey 7 that is based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS) 8 . The UK offshore oil and gas sector’s three-year average non-fatal injury rate per 100,000 workers is almost one third that of the construction industry (see Figure 4 below). The three-year rolling average for the offshore sector, meanwhile, is on a continuous downward trend, plateauing off over the last two reporting periods as illustrated opposite. The rate has fallen by 24 per cent from 569 in 2008 to 430 in 2015, compared to the construction industry, for example, which has seen an increase in the same period.
Favourable performance compared to other sectors reflects well on the industry’s unstinting efforts to manage hazards and continually improve safety performance, underpinned by a robust and effective regulatory regime.
Figure 4: The Three-Year Average (2012 to 2015) Non-Fatal Injury Rate by UK Industry Sector per 100,000 Workers
Construction
1,200
Transport/Storage
1,010
Manufacturing
880
Health/Social Work
770
Wholesale/Retail
650
Public Admin
640
Education
530
Offshore Oil and Gas
430
Finance/Business
250
All Industries
650
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200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
Number of Injuries
Source: The Health and Safety Executive
7 See www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/873.aspx 8 See http://bit.ly/1YubdYA
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