WIRELINE - Autumn 2017

News

1. Offshore safety continues to improve Oil & Gas UK’s latest Health & Safety Report signals a continued improving trend in process and personal safety last year across a range of metrics (see infographics below), and captures the significant issues and themes relating to the sector’s health and safety performance. Trish Sentence, health and safety manager at Oil & Gas UK, comments: “It is important to recognise where progress has been made. The collaborative work across industry to improve safety performance is delivering. To drive further improvement, we must maintain this focus and collective determination and ensure that safety remains at the heart of all our operations.” Tragically, however, it was a year that saw a fatal accident occur offshore. Investigations continue and lessons learnt from the accident will be shared across industry.

The report is available to download at https://cld.bz/fygAJTe.

h & Safety Report 2017 and Figures

The Health and Safety Executive regulates the industry

Collaboration and co-operation with regulators

Every offshore installation has a Safety Case

The effective containment of hydrocarbons and the associated hazards

All safety risks must be as low as reasonably practicable

that demonstrates the ability to control major accident risks

allows industry to strengthen its health and safety culture

within a goal-setting legal framework

is the priority for industry

The three-year average non-fatal injury rate

The over-seven-day injury rate in 2016 was the

The specified injury rate is at its lowest recorded level

Maintenance backlog is being tackled by industry

lowest on record 3 rd

is less than half that of construction and transport

Year-on-year reductions reported

Dangerous occurrences are at their lowest:

There was one reportable non-fatal helicopter accident on the UK Continental Shelf in 2016

Over 715,000 passengers were flown offshore in 2016

Since 2004, the number of process hydrocarbon releases maintains a downward trend

totalling nearly 89,000 flight hours

lower than the 2000-01 peak

oilandgasuk.co.uk /healthandsafetyreport

Download the infographics at http://bit.ly/HSReportFacts.

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