Health & Safety Report 2015

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2015

4.3.3 KPI-3 Safety-Critical Maintenance Backlog The KPI-3 produces a record of safety-critical maintenance backlog, defined as the total number of planned, corrective and deferred safety-critical maintenance man-hours that are beyond their planned completion date. It should be noted that deferred maintenance backlog man-hours are defined as planned or corrective maintenance that have exceeded their planned completion date and have gone through a formal and robust deferral process involving relevant technical or engineering authorities. Figure 16 opposite shows an increasing trend in safety-critical maintenance backlog since reporting began in January 2009 to the end of quarter 4 2014. The Oil & Gas UK Asset Integrity KPI Work Group meeting in December 2014 raised concerns about the deteriorating performance trends and noted the level of participation in the KPI scheme had diminished over the last few years. Work is currently being undertaken to validate the accuracy of the data and to encourage all operators to participate in the voluntary reporting scheme to give the best reflection of how, as an industry, safety-critical maintenance is being managed. In November 2014, the Oil & Gas UK Board was advised by HSE of its concerns that safety-critical maintenance backlog was ‘disappearing’ into deferred safety-critical maintenance. The industry was further challenged to develop a set of asset integrity related KPIs that added value to major hazard management within the industry and monitored risk control improvement. Subsequent meetings with HSE have helped to clarify the purpose and objectives of the industry’s voluntary asset integrity KPI scheme to them. A written request has since been sent to all Oil & Gas UK Operator Council representatives seeking their continued support for the scheme by providing accurate submissions based on the set industry criteria on an ongoing quarterly basis. The work group and the board agree that the KPIs serve as a useful industry metric and should be continued. Execution of safety-critical maintenance backlog is managed at duty holder installation level, rather than industry level, and will continue to be a key focus area for the industry and regulator to monitor performance. Participating companies have shown that robust management systems are in place, involving relevant technical authorities, when decisions about deferral of safety-critical maintenance are being made.

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