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3.4 Asset Integrity Key Performance Indicators
The HSE’s Key Programme 3 (KP3) inspection programme on asset integrity management ran from 2004 through to
2007. It defined asset integrity as “the ability of an asset to perform its required function effectively and efficiently
while protecting health, safety and the environment”. Asset integrity management was defined as “the means
for ensuring that the people, systems, processes and resources that deliver integrity are in place, in use and will
perform on demand over the whole life cycle of the asset”.
One of the many responses from the UK offshore oil and gas industry to KP3 was to develop and implement asset
integrity-related leading key performance indicators (KPIs) that would consistently demonstrate industry progress
over time, complementing the HCR statistics described earlier.
In 2009, the industry set up an asset integrity KPI scheme with the data provided by Oil & Gas UK member
companies on a voluntary basis at the end of every quarter. KPI-1 looks at HCRs as outlined above, while
KPI-2 and -3 are discussed in the following sections.
Figure 16: UK Asset Integrity Key Performance Indicators
KPI-2 Verification Non-Compliance
The Offshore Safety Case
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regime requires duty holders to identify and maintain safety and environmental critical
elements (SECE). SECE are systems that are critical to prevent, control or mitigate the safety and/or environmental
impacts of potential major accident hazards (MAHs) and are specific to an installation. Each SECE must comply
with a defined performance standard, which has been developed based on the parameters of the MAH present
on the installation.
Each installation will have many SECE, including fire and gas detection systems, emergency shutdown systems
and temporary refuge. To ensure that these are suitable for their intended purpose, remain in good condition
and repair, and comply with the relevant performance standard, they are subject to a verification process.
Verification is undertaken by an independent competent person (ICP), and the ICP must report any deficiencies
in relation to the performance standards or the verification scheme itself. Findings raised by the ICP are ranked
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Every offshore installation has a Safety Case – accepted by HSE – that demonstrates they have the ability and means to
control major accident risks effectively.