The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

41.—(1) The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 15(3)(c) (restriction on parallel requirements) substitute—

“(c) where the requirements have different time limits—

(i) in any case where any of those requirements is a requirement to make a report in relation to a reportable incident falling within paragraph 1(3) of Part 1 of Schedule 1, the time limit in relation to that incident is complied with;

(ii) in any other case, the shortest time limit is complied with; and”.

(3) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 (reporting and recording procedures)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) after “incident”, in the second place in which it occurs, insert “or, in the case of an incident falling within sub-paragraph (3), within 10 working days of the incident”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) A reportable incident falls within this sub-paragraph if it relates to a dangerous occurrence of a class specified in—

(a) paragraph 20 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in relation to an offshore workplace; or

(b) Part 6 of that Schedule.

(4) For the purposes of—

(a) sub-paragraph (1)(b), “working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of Great Britain; and

(b) sub-paragraph (3), “offshore workplace” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1), but as if the words in parenthesis in that definition had no effect.”

(1)

S.I. 2013/1471, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.