1. This notice provides guidance for duty holders on the changes required to their existing operational safety case to include the additional particulars for combined operations as required by the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005 (SCR05).
2. SCR05 requires the inclusion of generic information
on how combined operations will be managed by duty
holders in the operational safety case for the
installation. Schedule 2 paragraph 14 and Schedule 3
paragraph 13 provide details of the particulars required
in respect of production and non-production installations
respectively. These are reproduced below.
Schedule 2 paragraph 14/Schedule 3
paragraph 13
Particulars of any combined operations which
may involve the installation, including-
3. In preparing the additional material for the safety case, duty holders should also take into account the requirements of SCR05 regulation 12(1). This requires, among other matters, that a safety case demonstrates that the management system is adequate to ensure the satisfactory management of arrangements with contractors and subcontractors. Any special impact of combined operations should be considered.
4. A safety case should provide generic information on the management arrangements in place for ensuring that combined operations will be effectively co-ordinated between the installation operators and owners involved.
5. The safety case should summarise the management arrangements for ensuring, through a joint safety review by the duty holders involved, compliance with the supporting regulatory framework (in respect of those hazards with the potential to cause a major accident) for the combined operation. For example, it may be necessary to revisit the assessments made under regulation 5 of the Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995 (PFEER) for each of the installations. It may also be necessary to evaluate the impact of the combined operation on the measures taken to protect people from a major accident involving fire and explosion, or to ensure effective evacuation, escape or rescue, and to revise the emergency response plan as necessary.
6. The safety case should also include particulars of plant likely to be used in combined operations (to the extent that this is foreseeable), and the likely impact that combined operations may have on the installations involved.
7. Most offshore installations will have had combined operations safety cases before. Much of the generic information that needs to be included within each operational safety case to comply with SCR05 can be distilled from previously accepted combined operations safety cases.
8. In brief, the additional material relating to combined operations in each safety case should include a summary of the following (where relevant):
9. The information contained in the safety case should form a sound basis for subsequent combined operations notifications.
Any queries relating to this notice should be addressed to:
Health and Safety Executive
Hazardous Installations Directorate
Offshore Division
Lord Cullen House
Fraser Place
Aberdeen AB25 3UB
Tel: 01224 252500
Fax: 01224 252615
This guidance is issued by the Health and Safety Executive. Following the guidance is not compulsory and you are free to take other action. But if you do follow the guidance you will normally be doing enough to comply with the law. Health and safety inspectors seek to secure compliance with the law and may refer to this guidance as illustrating good practice.