Health and Safety Report 2019

HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2019

Marine Safety Forum — The forum actively promotes good practice and initiatives to enhance safety within the marine sector of the oil and gas industry. OGUK participates in the group’s steering committee and thereby ensures that the represented organisations co-ordinate activities and share expertise effectively. Along with the MSF and other North Sea NOIAs, OGUK also sponsors the related maintenance and publication of the Guidelines for Offshore Marine Operations (GOMO), which provides international standards for safety in this area.

5.5 Consultations

In addition to regular liaison with regulatory authorities, OGUK also co-ordinates formal responses to public consultations to ensure that industry views are represented. Recent consultations are noted below.

Offshore Safety Directive Review The Offshore Safety Directive (2013/30/EU) establishes minimum requirements for safety and environmental protection across the European Union for offshore oil and gas operations. The Commission has an obligation to conduct an evaluation of the Directive in order to assess whether it has achieved the objective as set out in Article 1, i.e. establish minimum requirements for preventing major accidents in offshore oil and gas operations and limiting the consequences of such accidents. Through this evaluation, the Commission shall also take into account how Member States have implemented the Directive into national rules and legislation. As required, the Commission will submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council on its assessment and shall include any appropriate proposals for amending the Directive. The consultation has gathered views on the implementation of the Directive, its effectiveness, relevance, coherence, EU added value and efficiency, as well as any need for further development and adjustment. Input received from the public consultation will become a main element for evaluating and assessing the experiences in relation to the Directive and its implementation. Safety Case Regulations 2015 Post-Implementation Review A post-implementation review (PIR) is a process to assess the effectiveness of a regulation after it has been implemented and operational for five years, and which provides the analysis required to establish whether, and to what extent, the regulation:

• has achieved its original objectives • has objectives which are still valid

• is still required and remains the best option for achieving those objectives • can be improved to reduce the burden on business and its overall costs

The regulations are now due for review and in order to complete this, the Competent Authority has been working with OGUK to ensure that stakeholder views on the effectiveness of the Regulation is captured. A questionnaire was issued to duty holders and their subsequent feedback was reviewed at an HSE/OGUK workshop in September. The final report will be submitted to government for their review in 2020.

44