Health & Safety Report 2018

Figure 7: Fatal Injuries Offshore

Year

Number of Fatalities

Year

Number of Fatalities

1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06

2 3 1 2 3 3 0 3 0 2

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0

3

2015 2016 2017

The non-fatal injury rate shown in Figure 8 is calculated from the number of over-seven-day and specified injuries reported to the HSE, 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 increased from 258 to 269 injuries per 100,000 workers in 2017, which is marginally higher than the 249 recorded in 2015. The specified injury rate showed a sharp decrease in 2017, falling to seven from 73 per 100,000 workers in 2016. Given the larger drop compared with last year and the overall low number of injuries reported in recent years, this is likely to be a statistical anomaly, but is consistent with a downward trend since 2013, the first directly comparable year when the RIDDOR category “major injury” was redefined to “specific injury”.

Figure 8: Over-Seven-Day and Specified Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers

900

*

Over-Three/Over-Seven-Day Injury Rate

800

Specified Injury Rate

700

600

500

400

300

200

Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers

100

0

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2001-02

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

Source: Health and Safety Executive, Vantage POB

*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year

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