Health & Safety Report 2017

It is important to continue to monitor performance and examine trends to determine whether and where changes need to be made, and use this information to determine industry’s actions. Monitoring the non-fatal injury rate will maintain focus on improving safety performance and, in turn, prevent tragic incidents like the fatality that occurred last year. The non-fatal injury rate is calculated from the number of over-seven-day and specified injuries reported to the HSE 6 , as well as offshore population figures calculated from Vantage POB data. The breakdown of over-seven-day and specified injuries per 100,000 workers since 2001 is given below. The over-seven-day injury rate has increased from 249 in 2015 to 301 injuries per 100,000 workers in 2016. However, 2015 represented a historic low, and although any increase is unwelcome, the rate for 2016 remains the third lowest since the measure was first calculated in 1995-96. Strain and sprains remain the main causes of over-seven-day injuries last year.

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The specified injury rate decreased to just under 73 per 100,000workers – its lowest recorded level. This represents a decrease of 43 per cent since 2013 when the RIDDOR category “major injury” was redefined to “specified injury”.

Figure 4: Over-Seven-Day and Specified Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers

900

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Over-Three/Over-Seven-Day Injury Rate

800

Specified Injury Rate

700

600

500

400

300

200

Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers

100

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2013

2014

2015

2016

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

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Source: Health and Safety Executive, Vantage POB

*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year

6 Defined list of reportable injuries in Regulation 4 of RIDDOR 2013.

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