Experience with the Safety Case Approach

Given the degree of development of offshore health and safety regulation on the UKCS by this point, it could have been assumed that there was in place a robust and mature regime that would not require much in the way of further attention from the regulator, not least because of the fundamental idea that the safety case was to be understood as a living document that would be updated as required throughout the 

Regarding the overall condition of the infrastructure, the regulator was able to report more positively that structural integrity was well controlled and that the main hydrocarbon boundary was reasonably well controlled , but it remained concerned that other parts of the hydrocarbon infrastructure such as pipes and 

That such an interpretation is by no means unreasonable may be inferred from the comments of the Ch ief Executive of Petrofac, Ayman Asfari, at the Oil and Money Conference in October 2008, where he indicated that his company had seen installations which were in bad need of repair , that he feared firms will fail to spend enough in improvements and that he was concerned that the industry would end up in a situation where budgets were curtailed, leading to more risk of accidents. Oil and 

and to the fact that a new initiative has been launched which will, among other things, follow up the issues identified until the end of 2013.  

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