Health and Safety Report 2019

Personal Injuries and Fatalities Reportable injuries in the UK are categorised into two types: over-seven days injuries, where a work-related injury results in the injured person being unable to return to work for seven days or more; and specified injuries and fatalities. Figure 6 shows work-related fatalities at offshore installations recorded since 1996 (excluding helicopter incident figures, which are covered in section 4 of this report). In 2018 there were no work-related fatalities in the UK sector.

Figure 6: Fatal Injuries Offshore

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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 2006–07

2 3 1 2 3 3 0 3 0 2 2

2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14

0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0

2015 2016 2017 2018

The non-fatal injury rate is calculated from the number of over-seven-day and specified injuries reported to the HSE, 3 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 overleaf. The over-seven-day injury rate increased from 269 to 302 injuries per 100,000 workers in 2018, although it remains lower than the 432 recorded in 2014. The specified injury rate showed an increase in 2018, up to 66 per 100,000 workers, from 7 in 2017. Given the drop-off in specified injuries reported in 2017, the apparent increase is in fact a return to normal trends, as Figure 7 shows. This is consistent with the downward trend since 2013, which is the first directly comparable year when the RIDDOR category “major injury” was redefined to “specified injury”.

3 Defined list of reportable injuries in Regulation 4 of RIDDOR 2013

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