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The Oil & Gas UK Health, Safety and Employment Issues Directorate actively engages with a wide variety of
other industry and external stakeholder groups (see Figure 16). Figure 18 below provides examples of issues
addressed in 2012 by a selection of these groups.
Figure 18: Issues Addressed by External Stakeholder Groups
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Deepwater Horizon evacuation, escape and rescue matters
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Use of Dacon Scoop
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Emergency response and rescue vessels trials data
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OPITO emergency response training standards
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Maritime and Coastguard Agency organisational restructuring
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Emergency response aspects of helicopter ditchings and the Elgin G4
incident
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Influential in conceiving and delivering elected safety representatives’
development training (see section 10.7)
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Host a number of regular events/forums for the offshore workforce to
meet and share experiences and lessons
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Emergency response team fitness standards
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Potential abuses of computer based training
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Safety representatives’ development training
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Mutual acceptance of safety and emergency training
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Escape chute training
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Confined space entry training
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Updated the agreement and associated matrix on the mutual acceptance
of basic safety and emergency training. More details can be found on
the Oil & Gas UK website at:
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Initiated work on a mutual agreement relating to specialist emergency
response training
Evacuation, Escape & Rescue
Technical Advisory Group
Tripartite of regulator (HSE),
industry and unions
Offshore Industry Advisory
Committee Workforce
Involvement Group
Sub-group of the HSE’s Offshore
Industry Advisory Committee
comprising HSE inspectors and
industry representatives
OPITO UK Industry Forum
Chaired by Oil & Gas UK, includes
representatives from OPITO, the
HSE, ERRVA, IADC, OCA, COTA,
IMCA, training providers and
unions
North Sea Offshore
Industries Association
Training Work Group
Work group of representatives
from Oil & Gas UK and trade
associations from Norway,
Denmark and the Netherlands
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Note that many of the bodies are identified by acronyms in the graphics and these are then spelt out in
the glossary provided in section 11 of the report.
