Safety in the UK Offshore Sector: A Situation Report
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Offshore Divison (OSD) aims to ensure that risks to workers in the UK’s oil and gas extraction industries are properly controlled. With around 25,000 people employed directly in these sectors, this is a challenging task. Since the early 1980s the UK has been one of the world’s largest producers of offshore oil and gas. Undertaking this task on the UK Continental Shelf are some 250 offshore installations, of which 52 are fixed normally unmanned structures and 31 are mobile drilling units.