Offshore Energies Magazine - Winter 2022/23

Craig Angus

reduction targets. The PSS sets out the blueprint for developing the multi-disciplined, all-energy workforce needed to deliver that just transition while maintaining the nation’s energy security. Crucially the notion of a passport emerged from close collaboration with the energy industry’s operating and contracting companies; its workforce; governments and their agencies; trade unions; trade bodies; skills bodies; and education/training providers. Everyone has a stake and a keen interest in making it work. Five action-plans The strategy is supported by a series of five action plans which translate into tangible, timebound actions to create the right focus and drive results that the industry needs to deliver the managed transition for the workforce. The first is ‘aligning offshore energy standards.’ Buoyed by the advances made so far, there are high expectations for the next three. They cover the vital areas of improving skills data intelligence; meeting future skills demand; and defining workforce skills. The fifth and final action plan, championing diversity and inclusion, is in development. Together the five action plans will maximise the opportunity and optimise the efficiency of the offshore industry’s net zero carbon future. They address the major challenges for the industry during a period of disruption and dynamic change: attracting enough people to meet demand from growing sectors; sustaining critical ongoing oil and gas activities; and ensuring that the skilled workforce is retained in the sector until there are sufficient new low-carbon energy projects to employ them. The transition affects technicians, skilled craftspeople and administrators working across the whole supply chain – onshore, offshore, and in the subsurface

“The strategy is supported by a series of five action plans which translate into tangible, timebound actions to create the right focus and drive results that the industry needs to deliver the managed transition for the workforce. The first is ‘aligning offshore energy standards.’.”

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