Health and Safety Report 2019

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Health

Aviation

• 127,474 OGUK medicals were performed by registered doctors in more than 60 countries, up from 110,688 in 2017 • Blood pressure was the most common cause for failure of an offshore medical, with 25% of all failures attributable to associated health conditions

• Offshore helicopter operations in 2018 were conducted without an accident

• The fatal accident rate per 100,000 flying hours dropped to zero for the first time since 2001 • Flying hours increased by 12% to 77,286 in 2018, up from 69,005 in 2017, but there were 69,913 fewer passengers transported • There has been no change in the number of helicopter types supporting UKCS operations from last year and the Sikorsky S92 continues to be the predominant airframe in use

• The most frequent cause of medevacs was for suspected cardiac incidents

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