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7.
Oil & Gas UK’s Work in Representative Bodies
Oil & Gas UK’s Health, Safety and Employment Issues Directorate manages a broad range of issues and co-ordinates
the development of cooperative solutions on behalf of industry. This is achieved through a number of forums,
networks and work groups. The directorate also actively participates in various other industry groups.
7.1 Oil & Gas UK’s Forums
Presentations by Forum Members
• Learning from fatalities
• Safety observation systems
• Occupational health and stress
management
• Causal learning
Health & Safety Forum
The Major Hazards Management Forum provides opportunities for members to share specialist knowledge,
opinion and operational experience in relation to major hazard management.
The forum tackles issues such as:
• Strategies for major hazard management
• Influencing the HSE’s research plans through input to its research proposals and considering the practical
implementation
• Remaining aware of hazard management developments in other major hazard industries
• Sharing specialist knowledge, opinion and operational experience to deliver guidance on major hazard
management issues for offshore installations
Who attends?
The Forum is open to all Oil & Gas UK full members and is attended by technical safety specialists working in
major hazard management. Work group members may invite external experts to address a particular topic.
Examples of topics covered in 2013
• RIDDOR Hydrocarbon Release Reporting Guidelines
• Accident and failure data
• Risk-based decision framework
• Process safety awareness
• Fibre-reinforced plastic gratings
• Piper 25 conference
The Health & Safety Forum is a centre for communication between Oil & Gas UK and member companies
on a wide range of health and safety issues affecting the UK upstream oil and gas industry. It provides the
industry with a platform to engage with the regulators and other stakeholders and proposes and supports
research, studies and analysis to ensure appropriate health and safety improvement strategies and actions
are developed. The Forum also provides a link to Step Change in Safety. Meetings are chaired by Oil & Gas UK
and are held quarterly.
Who attends?
The Forum is open to all Oil & Gas UK full members and is attended by health and safety managers or advisors
from both operator and contractor companies as well as those in occupational health roles.
Examples of topics covered in 2013
• EU Directive
• Size and shape study
• Aviation incidents
• Occupational health
• Ageing and life extension
• Piper 25 conference
• HSE re-organisation and
intervention strategy
Major Hazards Management Forum
