Offshore Industry: Safety

(asked on 23rd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of Storms (a) Dudley, (b) Eunice and (c) Franklin on the safety of workers on North Sea oil and gas installations; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Chloe Smith Portrait
Chloe Smith
This question was answered on 1st March 2022

The offshore oil and gas health and safety regulatory regime requires duty holders to ensure their installations have, and maintain, sufficient integrity throughout their lifecycle, for all expected degradation mechanisms, including the impact severe weather, to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place.

This includes severe weather arising from named storms which affect UK waters. Additionally, installation operators are required to have measures in place to mitigate the effects of severe weather on the safety of operations, by altering activities as necessary to reduce risks to the workforce.

The recent storms did not result in any reportable incidents to HSE by offshore duty holders. Therefore, HSE does not consider that an assessment of the specific impact of those storms is necessary.

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