Publications

COSHH task sheets

Offshore COSHH Essentials was prepared in partnership by an HSE/Industry/Unions working group and describes good control practice for controlling exposure to chemicals, for a range of common processes and tasks in the offshore industry. The guidance is aimed at managers, safety practitioners, offshore medics and safety representatives in the offshore oil and gas industry, who have responsibility for managing the control of substances hazardous to health. The guidance consists of a series of Offshore COSHH Essentials (OCE) sheets giving practical advice on good control practice for specific tasks and a series of Offshore COSHH Method (OCM) sheets, which give advice on generic COSHH issues such as PPE, health surveillance etc. These OCE and OCM series are part of a suite of guidance on offshore health risks and includes Offshore Food Essentials (OFE) and Offshore Radiation Essentials (ORE).

COSHH and the offshore oil and gas industry[40]

Operations notices

Operations notices[41] are intended to advise the offshore industry of new regulatory requirements, contact points within the Energy Division for communications (eg accident/incident reporting) and of other Government requirements with respect to offshore operations which may have safety implications.

Safety alerts and notices

Safety alerts are a mechanism for urgent notifications to industry, and are normally used to make the interim findings of accident investigations known where urgent action may be required.

Safety notices highlight matters of concern in generic safety issues, which inspectors have identified and forewarn sector dutyholders of potential dangers. In the main, they deal with hardware-related issues, hazards and controls.

Offshore information sheets

Offshore information sheets[42] provide good practice guidance on a range of technical issues.

Offshore workforce involvement and consultation

HSE has completed an inspection programme to check industry compliance with the provision of the SI971 Offshore Installations Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1989. The inspections heightened the role of elected offshore safety representatives and committees, gained improvements in a number of areas and identified numerous examples of innovative practices.

Report on HSE's SI 971 Compliance Inspection Project[43]

Leaflets

HSE has produced various free offshore leaflets[44] which you can also get online.

Link URLs in this page

  1. Offshore oil and gashttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/index.htm
  2. How we workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/how.htm
  3. Offshore health and safety lawhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/law.htm
  4. Workforce involvementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workinvolvement.htm
  5. Unconventional oil and gas exploration (shale gas)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/unconventional-gas.htm
  6. Overview - Offshore topicshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/topics.htm
  7. Accommodationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/accommodation.htm
  8. Ageinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ageing/index.htm
  9. Corrosion and materialshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/corrosion-and-materials.htm
  10. Offshore divinghttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/diving.htm
  11. Electrical and control systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/controlsystems.htm
  12. Evacuation, escape and rescue (EER)https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/eer.htm
  13. Fire, explosion and risk assessmenthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/assessment.htm
  14. Human factorshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/humanfactors.htm
  15. International liaisonhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/liaison.htm
  16. Marine and aviationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/marineaviation.htm
  17. Maritime integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/maritimeintegrity.htm
  18. Mechanical engineeringhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/mechengineering.htm
  19. Occupational healthhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/occupationalhealth.htm
  20. Offshore pipelineshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/pipelines.htm
  21. Process integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/processintegrity.htm
  22. Researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/offshoreresearch.htm
  23. Safety caseshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/safetycases.htm
  24. Safety management systemshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/managementsystems.htm
  25. Structural integrityhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/structuralintegrity.htm
  26. Verificationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/verification.htm
  27. Wellshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/wells.htm
  28. Working timehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workingtime.htm
  29. Overview - Resourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/resources.htm
  30. Overview - Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  31. Operations noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm
  32. Safety alerts and noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm#safety-alerts
  33. Offshore information sheetshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/infosheets/index.htm
  34. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  35. Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  36. Offshore charging informationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/charging.htm
  37. Key programme final reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/programmereports.htm
  38. Offshore Directivehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/directive.htm
  39. Subscribehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ebulletin/index.htm
  40. COSHH and the offshore oil and gas industryhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/coshh/industry/offshore.htm
  41. Operations noticeshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/notices/index.htm
  42. Offshore information sheetshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/infosheets/index.htm
  43. Report on HSE's SI 971 Compliance Inspection Projecthttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/workinvolvement.htm
  44. free offshore leafletshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/offindex.htm
  45. Offshore publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/publications.htm
  46. Research reportshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm
  47. Offshore statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/statistics/index.htm
  48. Diving micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/index.htm
  49. Pipelines micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pipelines/index.htm
  50. Electricity micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/index.htm
  51. Carbon capture and storage micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/carboncapture/index.htm
  52. Regulating major hazards micrositehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/regulating-major-hazards/index.htm
  53. Safety bulletinhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/index.htm
  54. HSE Publicationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/index.htm
  55. Science and researchhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/research/index.htm
  56. Charging activitieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/charging/index.htm
  57. Health and safety statisticsfile:///J%7C/website/livelive/statistics/index.htm
  58. International Regulators Forumhttp://www.irfoffshoresafety.com/
  59. Institution of Occupational Safety and Healthhttp://www.iosh.co.uk/
Updated 2024-08-13