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age groups. This is proportionate to the number of people in each age group and can be seen in Figure 21. There has however been a steady decrease, proportionally, in the cases where blood pressure has prevented individuals from working offshore, from 31% in 2018, to 21% in 2019 and finally 15% in 2020. Diabetes, the main cause of medical failures in 2019, has fallen back in line with previous years as the second most common cause in 2020, along with cardiac issues, with each accounting for 12% of the reason for failure. Excessive weight/body mass index (BMI) (11%) and drug abuse (8%) are the fourth and fifth most common causes for failure respectively. Proportionally, issues with weight or BMI were the most common reason for failure in the under-20s but this represents only 9 individuals from 954 medicals carried out in that age range. Drug abuse was most prominent in the 20-29 age group for the third year running. This was 28% of the failures in that category in 2020, but only 0.2% of the total medicals conducted in that age group.

Figure 20: Percentage of Failed Assessments by Age

2020 2019 2018 2017

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3.5%

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2.5%

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Failure Rate

1.5%

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20 - 29

30 - 39

40 - 49

50 - 59

60+

Source: OGUK, 2021 2019 was the only year in the records history where blood pressure was not the most common reason for individuals to be declared unfit for work offshore, being overtaken by diabetes. However, in 2020, the most common reason again was blood pressure (15%), especially in the 40-49 and 50-59

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