The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992

UK Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 2885 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

16 November 1992

In force from

31 May 1993

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Made under

Offshore Safety Act 1992, Schedule 3 to, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations provide for the preparation of safety cases for offshore installations and for the notification of specified activities to the Health and Safety Executive (“the Executive”). A safety case is defined in the Regulations as a document containing specified information relating to the management of health and safety and the control of major accident hazards and containing the particulars specified in the Schedule referred to in the provision of the Regulations under which it is prepared (regulations 2(2) and 8). The Regulations— a require a safety case to be sent to the Executive before the completion of the design of a fixed installation (regulation 4(1) and Schedule 1); b prohibit the operation of a fixed installation unless a safety case has been sent to and accepted by the Executive (regulation 4(2) and Schedule 2); c prohibit the movement of a mobile installation in relevant waters (as defined in regulation 2(1)) with a view to its being operated there unless a safety case has been sent to and accepted by the Executive (regulation 5 and Schedule 3); d prohibit the engagement of an installation in a combined operation with another unless a safety case has been sent to and accepted by the Executive (regulation 6 and Schedule 4); e prohibit the decommissioning of a fixed installation unless a safety case has been sent to and accepted by the Executive (regulation 7 and Schedule 5) ; f require a safety case to be revised as often as may be appropriate and at 3 yearly intervals, such revision to be accepted by the Executive where it is made at the 3 yearly interval or where it renders the safety case materially different from the last version sent to the Executive (regulation 9); g require any procedures or arrangements in safety cases to be followed and provide for specified defences for contravention of the requirement (regulation 10); h require well operations and specified construction activities to be notified to the Executive, such notifications to contain specified particulars (regulations 11 and 12 and Schedules 6 and 7); i contain transitional provisions in respect of activities in existence or com menced within a specified time of the coming into force of the Regulations (regulation 13); j impose requirements on specified persons to co-operate with the operator and owner of an offshore installation to enable them to comply with the provisions of the Regulations (regulation 14); k impose requirements with respect to the making and keeping of documents (regulation 15); l amend the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Commit tees) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/971) as respects a safety representative’s entitlement to see and be supplied with documents and information, and amend those Regulations so as to require safety representatives to be consulted on the preparation of safety cases (regulation 16 and Schedule 8); m provide for the granting of exemptions from the Regulations by the Executive (regulation 17).

Offences created by this instrument

• Contravention of The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Health And Safety (North Sea Oil And Gas Industry) Commons · Westminster Hall · 9 July 2003 · The Minister for Work (Mr. Desmond Browne)

  I, too, pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, Central (Mr. Doran) for securing this important and timely debate, and for his sustained support over the years for the survivors and bereaved families of the Piper Alpha disaster, in the House and elsewhere. His support for those families and his consistent campaigning on the issues, which he brings to the attention of the House today, are well known. It is a responsibility he shares with other hon. Members, many of whom are present for the debate and some of whom could not attend. The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr.…

• Piper Alpha Disaster (20th Anniversary) Commons · Westminster Hall · 2 July 2008 · The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mrs. Anne McGuire)

  It is a pleasure to respond to this debate and to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Bercow—this is the first time that you and I have met in this arena. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Doran) on his success in the ballot and on introducing this appropriate debate to mark the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. Those of us who sat through his speech will have found it a powerful and moving narrative of exactly what happened that day and in the aftermath. Certainly he brought back for me many of the images from that day, and many of us will have…

• Piper Alpha Disaster (20th Anniversary) Commons · Westminster Hall · 2 July 2008 · Andrew Selous (South-West Bedfordshire) (Con)

  It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Bercow. I congratulate the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Doran) warmly on securing this important debate and on the tone and huge amount of knowledge and experience that he has brought to our proceedings. We are all extremely grateful. As the only English Member speaking in the debate, it is important that I put on record that this is a UK-wide issue. It is certainly not just a Scottish issue. The whole United Kingdom benefits from North sea oil, and every Member of the House should rightly and properly be concerned about the…

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