Offshore Industry: Safety
(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employees in the UK oil and gas industry served as elected safety representatives on UK continental shelf installations in each year from 2010 to 2017.
This question was answered on 10th May 2018
The information cannot be provided in the format requested but according to the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation’s (OPITO) records, some 3857 ESRs did their mandatory initial training from 2010-17.
As part of implementing a programme of Workforce Engagement inspections during 2015-16, HSE established that there were 1500 – 1700 ESRs in place at that time.