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Hazardous Installations Directorate Offshore Division: Tom Mclaren, Operations Manager, Unit 3 Tom - Mclaren@Hse - Gsi.Gov - Uk

This document discusses health and safety regulations for offshore oil and gas installations. It provides background on several offshore accidents that have occurred, including the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 that killed 167 lives and prompted a public inquiry. As a result of the inquiry, regulation of offshore safety was transferred to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 1990. The HSE now uses a permissioning regime where every offshore installation must have an accepted safety case outlining how major hazard risks are controlled. Key legislation includes the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005, which requires operators to prepare and submit a safety case to the HSE for acceptance, and the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc)

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Hazardous Installations Directorate Offshore Division: Tom Mclaren, Operations Manager, Unit 3 Tom - Mclaren@Hse - Gsi.Gov - Uk

This document discusses health and safety regulations for offshore oil and gas installations. It provides background on several offshore accidents that have occurred, including the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 that killed 167 lives and prompted a public inquiry. As a result of the inquiry, regulation of offshore safety was transferred to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 1990. The HSE now uses a permissioning regime where every offshore installation must have an accepted safety case outlining how major hazard risks are controlled. Key legislation includes the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005, which requires operators to prepare and submit a safety case to the HSE for acceptance, and the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc)

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Health and Safety

Executive

HAZARDOUS INSTALLATIONS DIRECTORATE


OFFSHORE DIVISION

Tom McLaren, Operations Manager, Unit 3


[email protected]

Piper Alpha 1988 167 lives lost

Montara/Western Atlas blow out 2009


Health and Safety
Executive

Glomar Adriatic IV at Temash


2004
Egypt
Blowout and fire
150 evacuated

Deepwater Horizon Macondo blow-out 11 lives lost

HISTORY

first oil 1971

106 recommendations

recommendations 23-26, responsibility for


regulation of offshore safety to pass to HSE

safety regulated by the Department of Energy


1988 Piper Alpha
public Inquiry Report by Lord Cullen published
1990
recommendations 1-13 requirement for Safety
Case

PERMISSIONING REGIME

goal setting and non prescriptive

an argument for continued safe operation

every offshore installation must have an


accepted safety case
a description of the installation and how
the major hazard risks are controlled and
mitigated

LEGISLATION
The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005 (SCR)
requires every operator, or owner, of an offshore installation to
prepare a safety case and submit it to HSE for acceptance. This
involves HSE inspectors assessing the adequacy of the case. HSE also
has to accept material changes to a safety case and a revision of a safety
case to cover the dismantling of a fixed installation. HSEs permissioning
approach enables HSE to check that acceptable risk control measures
and an effective health and safety management system are in place.
HSE also regulates the Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and
Construction, etc) Regulations 1996 (DCR) which stem from the
European directive.
These regulations cover both offshore and onshore wells. They

apply 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 the
unplanned release of fluids from the well are as low as is reasonably
practicable. Operators must submit plans to HSE in advance of
construction, so that HSE inspectors can ensure that the design is safe,
to prevent accidents such as the recent oil release in the USA which killed
eleven workers and has led to widespread pollution of coastal waters.

Offshore Specific H&S Legislation


Health & Safety at Work Act etc. 1974

Application
Outside GB
Order 2001

Safety Reps &


Comms
Regs 1989

Design & Construction


Regs 1996

Safety Case
Regs 2005

Prevention of Fire
& Explosion etc.
Regs 1995

First Aid
Regs 1989

Management
& Admin
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. & Lifting
Equip. Regs 1998
Provision & Use of Work
Equipment Regs 1998
Electricity at Work
Regs 1989
Working at Height Regs
2005
Personal Protective Equip.
at Work Regs 1992
Diving at Work
Regs 1997

Control of Substances
Hazardous to Health
at Work Regs 2002

Reporting Injuries &


Diseases & Dangerous
Occurrences 1995

Control of Noise at Work


Regs 2005

Pressure Equip. Regs 1999


Pressure Equip Regs 2002

Control of Asbestos
Work Regs 2002
Control of Vibration at
Work Regs 2005
Display Screen
Equipment
Regs 1992
Ionising Radiation
Regs 1999
Manual Handling
Operations Regs 1992

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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