Health & Safety Report 2016

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2016

4.1.2 Dangerous Occurrences

Dangerous occurrences are events that have the potential to cause death or serious injury. A specific list of dangerous occurrences reportable for the offshore industry is published in Schedule 2 9 of RIDDOR.

From 2000-01 to 2012-13, there was a 54 per cent decrease in the total number of reportable dangerous occurrences offshore, and between 2013 and 2015 there has been a further decline of almost 30 per cent from 425 occurrences to nearly 300. The numbers of wells and pipelines related dangerous occurrences have continued to decrease since 2013, with the number of wells incidents dropping from 51 to 26 and pipeline incidents falling from 51 to 38. HCRs are looked at in more detail in section 4.1.3.

Figure 10: RIDDOR Reportable Dangerous Occurrences

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800

700

600

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400

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Number of Dangerous Occurrences

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0

2013

2014

2015

2000-01

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year

Source: The Health and Safety Executive

9 See www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1471/schedule/2/made

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