Health and Safety Report 2019

Mental Health and Wellbeing During 2019, mental health and wellbeing has been a key topic of discussion in OGUK groups and forums. As well as sharing good practice and recent experience between members, groups have also heard from guest speakers, who shared their perspectives on managing mental health and wellbeing on the offshore industry. A survey of what member organisations were doing in this area was developed, based on the recommendations from 'Thriving at Work, the Stevenson-Farmer independent review of mental health and employers.' The responses to the survey indicated that the mental health core standards are comprehensively addressed in current oil and gas industry practice, along with some of the enhanced standards. Assessing Fitness to Work Offshore OGUK is the custodian of the offshore medical assessment process for the UKCS, defining the requirements for assessment in the publication Medical Aspects of Fitness for Work Offshore: Guidance for Examining Physicians and registering doctors approved to conduct the assessment. The medical guidelines were last updated in 2008 and are currently under review, taking into consideration feedback and requests from various stakeholders in the process, including installation operators, examining doctors, and the workforce. The review contains two major workstreams: the industry’s risk tolerance for specific health conditions, and associated assessment criteria; and the administrative approach to the process. The deliverable for this process is an updated, fit-for-purpose Medical Aspects of Fitness for Work Offshore: Guidance for Examining Physicians accepted by industry as providing proportionate health risk management and compatible with existing mutual recognition frameworks, as well as upholding existing regulatory exemptions and approval. Safety Case for the Future The safety case regime has fundamentally changed the way industry maintains safe operations, but the makeup of the case itself has largely remained the same little over the past 25 years, despite clear advances in information technology and the continually evolving approach from the industry to improve understanding and management of major hazards. To ensure that the safety case continues as a driver for improvement in process safety, OGUK held a workshop to identify common problems or areas for improvement in the current approach, and to recommend potential solutions. The aim of the project was to identify changes with the potential to increase the benefit brought to industry and the regulator by safety cases while reducing the administrative burden of writing and maintaining them. The areas targeted were: • Thorough Review —This initiativewas undertaken by the HSE and resulted in the development and publication of its Thorough Review Inspection Guide • Material Change — The production of example-based guidance to help users understand what is and what isn’t a material change • Workforce Engagement —Engagewith theHSE tounderstand the scopeof regulatory requirements forworkforce participation in safety case development and update, and to provide routemap to identify areas of best practice • Guidance — To review and identify ways to consolidate and simplify the current regulatory guidance and supporting forms/templates and to reduce redundant safety case content where appropriate HSE Conference In November 2019, OGUK will hold its first combined Health, Safety and Environment Conference bringing together senior leaders, the regulator, HSE professionals, operations personnel and many others to hear what industry is doing across a range of issues including hydrocarbon prevention, mental health, fatigue, human factors and more. A key feature of the event will be the sharing of good practice in all of the above areas.

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