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10.5 Maitland Report Follow-up Activities
As referred to in section 3.5 of this report, the industry will continue to focus attention and effort on a
number of key areas for improvement identified by the Maitland review. Many of those actions relate to
well planning and control and will be pursued by Oil & Gas UK’s Well Life Cycle Practices Forum
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. That group
will also continue to work closely with Step Change in Safety on improvements in workforce competence
and training, with the emphasis being on the human factors of well integrity management. Other
Maitland Report
focus areas requiring ongoing effort include learning from incidents and best practice and
workforce engagement.
10.6 Assurance and Verification Network Activities
A new Oil & Gas UK network was established in 2012 to provide a forum for duty holder assurance and
verification (A&V) practitioners where they can identify common issues of concern, develop workable
solutions where possible and pursue improvements in A&V processes and outputs across industry.
The network will also help drive consistent implementation of Step Change in Safety’s A&V related guidance.
The group has developed an issues management list that will focus its collective effort through 2013 and
among the topics to be addressed are: definition of verification findings; organisational A&V competence; SCE
sample size; value optimisation of ICP activity; management of change; reliability and availability definition;
assurance of major accident hazard barriers; combined operations; and temporary equipment.
10.7 Elected Safety Representatives’ Development Training
Oil & Gas UK and Step Change in Safety supported a new OPITO standard for elected safety representative
(ESR) training
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through active participation in the HSE’s Workforce Involvement Group.
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Courses will be
available through 2013 and duty holders are encouraged to make this training available to their safety
representatives. Oil & Gas UK and Step Change in Safety will monitor uptake.
10.8 Helideck Issues for Normally Unattended Installations
Following discussions between industry, the CAA and the Helideck Certification Agency in 2012, the Oil & Gas
UK NUI steering group will continue its work to improve NUI helideck safety by taking a holistic approach to
risk reduction. A project plan will be developed for all UKCS NUIs, outlining where improvements could be
made in areas such as surface conditions, undersized decks and obstacle-free environments. This approach
will focus efforts to reduce the likelihood of a helideck crash, which could lead to fire, and therefore reduce
the need for additional fire fighting equipment.
10.9 Pipeline and Riser Loss of Containment Database
Work to re-launch the online PARLOC database has been continuing since 2012 with varying success. There is
a strong desire within the industry to see PARLOC thrive, however, debate continues over whether this should
be in a publicly accessible online database and how this could be achieved.
Given the importance of having up-to-date pipeline, riser and incident data, Oil & Gas UK and the Energy
Institute will work with a contractor to produce a new hard copy of PARLOC in 2014 as an update to the
document last published in 2001. A steering group will manage this over the coming months with an expected
publication date of autumn 2014.
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The standard is available in the standards library on the OPITO website at:
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