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Health and SafetyExecutive

HAZARDOUS INSTALLATIONS DIRECTORATE

OFFSHORE DIVISION

Tom McLaren, Operations Manager, Unit 3

[email protected]



Piper Alpha 1988 167 lives lost



Health and SafetyExecutive

Montara/Western Atlas blow out 2009



Glomar Adriatic IV at Temash

2004

Egypt

Blowout and fire

150 evacuated



Deepwater Horizon Macondo blow-out 11 lives lost



HISTORY

• first oil 1971

• safety regulated by the Department of Energy

• 1988 Piper Alpha• public Inquiry Report by Lord Cullen published

1990

• 106 recommendations

• recommendations 1-13 requirement for Safety

Case

• recommendations 23-26, responsibility for

regulation of offshore safety to pass to HSE



PERMISSIONING REGIME

• goal setting and non prescriptive

• every offshore installation must have an

accepted safety case• an argument for continued safe operation

• a description of the installation and how

the major hazard risks are controlled andmitigated



LEGISLATION

The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005 (SCR)

• requires every operator, or owner, of an offshore installation toprepare a safety case and submit it to HSE for acceptance. Thisinvolves HSE inspectors assessing the adequacy of the case. HSE alsohas to accept material changes to a safety case and a revision of a safetycase to cover the dismantling of a fixed installation. HSE’s permissioning

approach enables HSE to check that acceptable risk control measuresand an effective health and safety management system are in place.

HSE also regulates the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design andConstruction, etc) Regulations 1996 (DCR) which stem from theEuropean directive.

• These regulations cover both offshore and onshore wells. Theyapply to the construction of a well and place duties on the "well operator"

to ensure that the risks to the health and safety of personnel and theunplanned release of fluids from the well are as low as is reasonablypracticable. Operators must submit plans to HSE in advance of construction, so that HSE inspectors can ensure that the design is safe, toprevent accidents such as the recent oil release in the USA which killedeleven workers and has led to widespread pollution of coastal waters.



Offshore Specific H&S Legislation

Health & Safety at Work Act etc. 1974

Safety Case

Regs 2005

Design & Construction

Regs 1996

Management

& Admin

Regs 1995

First Aid

Regs 1989

Safety Reps &

Comm’s

Regs 1989

Application

Outside GB

Order 2001

Prevention of Fire

& Explosion etc.

Regs 1995



Onshore Regs. Applied Offshore

Health & Safety at Work Act etc. 1974

Pipelines Safety Regs 1996

Management of Health &

Safety at Work Regs 1999

Lifting Ops. & LiftingEquip. Regs 1998

Provision & Use of Work

Equipment Regs 1998

Electricity at Work

Regs 1989

Working at Height Regs2005

Personal Protective Equip.

at Work Regs 1992

Diving at Work

Regs 1997

Control of Substances

Hazardous to Health

at Work Regs 2002

Control of Noise at Work

Regs 2005

Control of Asbestos

Work Regs 2002

Control of Vibration at

Work Regs 2005

Display Screen

EquipmentRegs 1992

Ionising Radiation

Regs 1999

Manual Handling

Operations Regs 1992

Reporting Injuries &

Diseases & Dangerous

Occurrences 1995

Pressure Equip. Regs 1999

Pressure Equip Regs 2002

The Equip. & Protective

Systems

Intended for Use in

Potentially

Explosive Atmospheres

Regs 1996

Dangerous Substances &

Explosive

Atmospheres Regs 2002

Safety Signs & Signals

Regs 1996

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