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HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT
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4.1.2 Dangerous Occurrences
Dangerous occurrences are events that have the potential to cause death or serious injury. A specific list of
dangerous occurrences reportable for the offshore industry is published in Schedule 2
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of RIDDOR.
From 2000-01 to 2012-13, there was a 54 per cent decrease in the total number of reportable dangerous
occurrences offshore, and between 2013 and 2015 there has been a further decline of almost 30 per cent from
425 occurrences to nearly 300. The numbers of wells and pipelines related dangerous occurrences have continued
to decrease since 2013, with the number of wells incidents dropping from 51 to 26 and pipeline incidents falling
from 51 to 38. HCRs are looked at in more detail in section 4.1.3.
Figure 10: RIDDOR Reportable Dangerous Occurrences
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Number of Dangerous Occurrences
Source: The Health and Safety Executive
*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year
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See
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1471/schedule/2/made