The Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989

UK Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 971 — creates 1 criminal offence.

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Made: 12 June 1989
In force from: 18 September 1989
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under: Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971

Explanatory note

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These Regulations relate to offshore installations to which the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971 applies. The Regulations contain provisions for the election of safety representatives and confer on them functions and powers in relation to the health and safety of the installation workforce. They also provide for time off with pay for safety representatives in order that they may perform their functions and undergo training in aspects of those functions. The Regulations contain provisions for the owner of an installation to establish safety committees in accordance with these Regulations. The safety committee’s functions include keeping under review health and safety on the installation and making representations and recommendations to the installation manager, as appropriate. The Regulations impose duties on installation owners, installation managers and employers of persons on installations to give effect to these requirements and make breaches of those duties a criminal offence.

Offences created by this instrument

If an installation owner, installation manager or employer fails to comply with an obligation imposed upon him by… regulation 28(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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Offshore Safety (Protection Against Victimisation) Bill Hl Lords · Lords Chamber · 12 February 1992 · Lord McCarthy
My Lords, it will not surprise the House to learn that the Opposition welcome this Bill. We support it and we thank my noble friend Lady Turner of Camden for introducing it. As my noble friend said, the objectives of the Bill could not be simpler. They are to provide the normal minimal protection for safety representatives who complain of acts, on the part of their employer, which may be illegal and which may cost lives, especially if they complain through their trade unions or through the inspectorate. Of course, those people will have to prove their case and will have to prove that the…
Offshore Safety (Protection Against Victimisation) Bill Hl Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 February 1992 · Lord Wedderburn of Charlton
This is a very notable occasion. It is an employment matter on which the Committee seems to be united. On these Benches we can take great pleasure in the general support that the Government have given. I must congratulate my noble friend on piloting through to the statute book the first proposal from this side of the House that has seen favour with the Government since 1980. The only moral I can draw from that is that we should have done a lot better making our arguments from the Back Benches, as my noble friend has done with this Bill. Of course we welcome part of the amendment: the…
Offshore Safety (Protection Against Victimisation) Bill Hl Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 February 1992
(2) In this section— "offshore employee" means an employee (within the meaning of the 1978 Act) who is or was employed on an offshore installation; "offshore installation" means any installation which is an offshore installation within the meaning of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971, or is to be taken to be an installation for the purposes of sections 21 to 23 of the Petroleum Act 1987; "relevant functions", in relation to an offshore employee, means any functions conferred on him, as a safety representative or as a member of a safety committee— (a) by the Offshore…
Health And Safety Representatives Commons · Commons Chamber · 20 May 1998
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Mr. Stewart) on raising a debate whose importance was underlined by his chilling litany of statistics. My right hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment will tomorrow launch important new guidance supporting the offshore version of the Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations, so my hon. Friend's debate is fortuitously timed. Employees and the public have a fundamental right to acceptable standards of health and safety protection. A healthy, well-protected work force is not only right, but good for business and society.…

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