Health and Safety Report 2019

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2019

5.1 Forums, Groups and Networks Many of OGUK’s activities are managed through forums, networks and technical and work groups made up of representatives from member companies and other invited stakeholders who have relevant expertise and responsibilities. The diagram below shows the permanent health and safety groups, but as and when required, task finish groups are established to address discrete work scopes under the direction of the relevant technical group. These task finish groups typically produce industry good practice in the form of guidance and/or technical notes or recommend and develop improvements in existing processes (e.g. developing a sustainable process for maintaining and updating population data previously kept within the HSE’s HCR database). There were six such groups in operation in the past twelve months covering: assurance and verification; accident and failure frequency data; venting and flaring; ERRV unavailability; defining the role of the technical authority; and the carriage and notification of medications offshore.

H&S

Operators Health & Safety

Occupational Health & Hygiene

Control & Instrumentation

Helicopter Resilience

Aviation Safety

Major Hazards

Health & Safety

Electrical

OMAHAC

EERTAG

Network

Technical Group (structure agreed and will be reinstated if required)

Technical Group

OHSLG

Forum

Safety Related Industry Group (OGUK represented)

OMAHAC - Offshore Major Accident Hazards Advisory Committee EERTAG - Evacuation, Escape & Rescue Technical Advisory Group OHSLG - Offshore Helicopter Safety Leadership Group

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