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HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT
2015
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Focusing specifically on the offshore oil and gas sector, the figures below reveal that the non-fatal and combined
fatal and specified injury rate improved last year (RIDDOR 2013 now requires industry to report specified injuries
rather than the previous list of major injuries). Disappointingly, the over-seven-day injury rate has increased from
2013. Changes in statutory reporting requirements in 2013 may have contributed to these results, however, it is
too early to be definitive.
Figure 8: The Three-Year Rolling Average of Non-Fatal Injury Rate
per 100,000 Workers for the UK Offshore Oil and Gas Sector
Figure 9: Over-Seven-Day Injury and Combined Fatal
and Specified Injury Rates per 100,000 Workers for the UK Offshore Oil and Gas Sector
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Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers
Over-Seven-Day Injury Rate
Combined Fatal and Specified Injury Rate
Source: Health and Safety Executive