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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 Survey7 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
650
250
430
530
640
650
770
880
1,010
1,200
0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400
All Industries
Finance/Business
Offshore Oil and Gas
Education
Public Admin
Wholesale/Retail
Health/Social Work
Manufacturing
Transport/Storage
Construction
Number of Injuries Source: The Health and Safety Executive
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