Health & Safety Report 2013

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2013

2.3 Asset Integrity Key Performance Indicators Since 2000, the HSE has had a specific focus to reduce HCRs through key programme 1 (KP1). This was followed by a wider focus on asset integrity management (KP3). The KP3 inspection programme ran from 2004 through to 2007, with asset integrity defined as “the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently while protecting health, safety and the environment”. Asset integrity management was defined as “the means for ensuring that people, systems, processes and resources that deliver integrity are in place, in use, and will perform on demand over the whole life cycle of the asset”. One of the many responses of the UK offshore industry to the KP3 was to develop additional asset integrity related key performance indicators (KPIs). These would consistently demonstrate industry progress in asset integrity management over time and complement hydrocarbon release statistics. In 2005, UKOOA (now Oil & Gas UK) set up a work group to identify and develop a number of meaningful indicators resulting in the following KPIs being introduced in early 2008:

• KPI-1 – Hydrocarbon Release • KPI-2 – Verification Non-Compliance • KPI-3 – Safety-Critical Maintenance Backlog

Figure 6: Asset Integrity Key Performance Indicators used in the UK Oil and Gas Industry

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