Health & Safety Report 2013

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2013

3.5 Maitland Report As reported in the Health and Safety Report 2012 , the UK Government appointed Professor Geoffrey Maitland to chair a review of recommendations made in official reports on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The review panel had to consider the relevance of those recommendations to the UK offshore oil and gas industry and form a view as to the extent to which they might informmodification or improvement of the UK regulatory regime. The resulting Maitland Report was published in December 2011. 7 It was largely favourable towards the current UK regulatory regime, but the industry was required to respond to a number of recommendations for improvement within its sphere of control or influence. These recommendations fall into the following broad categories:

• Well planning and control • Environmental protection • Emergency response

• Learning from incidents and best practice • Competency and training of the workforce • Workforce engagement • Liability and insurance issues • Technology development

The industry response was further consolidated into a UK Government response document which was published in December 2012. 8 Ongoing actions to respond to the recommendations and referred to in the Government report are being managed by various parties, including Oil & Gas UK.

7 The Maitland Report can be found on DECC’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/ attachment_data/file/48252/3875-offshore-oil-gas-uk-ind-rev.pdf 8 The Maitland response can be found on DECC’s website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/up- loads/attachment_data/file/84191/Offshore_Oil_and_Gas_in_the_UK_Maitland_Response_Final.pdf

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