Health & Safety Report 2018

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2018

3.1 Process and Personal Safety

Reportable Incidents Requirements relating to reportable incidents are defined by the RIDDOR regulations 1 , and the EU Offshore Safety Directive (OSD) Implementing Regulation No 1112/2014. Under this legislation, defined incident types with high potential to cause significant injuries, termed dangerous occurrences, and other defined incidents – e.g. the failure of a safety and environmental critical element (SECE) – must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Reporting requirements under the European regulations are broadly aligned with those of RIDDOR, but additional reportable incident categories have been introduced, and some category names are different. 2 The section below includes information on both RIDDOR and EU reportable offshore incidents.

As seen in Figure 1, there has been a downward trend in the overall number of incidents since the peak in 2000-01. 2017 saw 255 such incidents, the lowest year on record and 67 per cent lower than in 2000-01.

Figure 1: Reportable Incidents

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Number of Reportable Incidents

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2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2000-01

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2003-04

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2005-06

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2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

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2011-12

2012-13

*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year

Source: Health and Safety Executive

Figure 2 breaks down the reportable incidents by type. Categories from the EU Implementing Regulation and RIDDOR have been combined where appropriate, e.g. “release or escape of a dangerous substance” and “unintentional release of hazardous substances” have been combined into the loss of containment (non- HCR) category. Hydrocarbon releases (HCRs) are the largest single type of reportable incident, followed by dropped objects.

1 Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1471/schedule/2/made 2 See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32014R1112

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