Dating back to 1999, several projects were undertaken by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) on behalf of the UK Health & Safety Executive (HSE) with the purpose of obtaining accident statistics for offshore fixed and floating units on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). In this respect, four databases holding information about incidents having occurred on offshore units on the UKCS were interrogated. The most recent project related to fixed and floating units, Accident Statistics for Offshore Units on the UKCS 1990 – 2006 was completed in March 2008.
This current project updates the data of the previous projects by adding the accidents have occurred in 2007. It should be noted that statistics for the period 1980-1989 are omitted in this report but may be found in the reports from the projects on the UK Continental Shelf 1980 – 2005, which were completed in 2007. The decision is based on the fact that the reporting requirements and systems changed dramatically in the UK around 1990 following the issuing of the Lord Cullen Report from the Piper Alpha accident in 1988.
Major accidents are rare and so lagging indicators, such as CR, are combined with leading indicators to give a better picture of safety performance. Leading indicators include maintenance backlogs for safety-critical elements and overdue verification findings. These show how well safety-critical elements, which are designed to prevent, control or mitigate the effects of major incidents on an installation, are being managed. Process safety performance indicators, while perhaps not as obviously about “safety” as injury statistics, are nevertheless critical to measuring performance and ensuring the industry continues to manage major accident risk effectively.
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