The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992

Regulation 16

SCHEDULE 8 AMENDMENTS TO THE OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS REPRESENTATIVES AND SAFETY COMMITTEES 1989

The Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989(1)shall be amended as follows—

1.  In regulation 18 after “A safety representative shall” add “subject to regulation 18A(2)(a) below” and at the end of the regulation add “or a safety case or revision to which regulation 18A below applies”.

2.  After regulation 18 add—

“18A— (1) A safety representative shall be entitled—

(a) to be supplied, by or on behalf of the installation manager, with a written summary of the main features of a safety case or revision thereof relating to the offshore installation and prepared pursuant to the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992, such summary to include any particulars concerning remedial work and the time by which it will be done;

(b) to see a copy of that safety case or revision;

(c) to be supplied, by or on behalf of the installation manager, with copies of such parts of that safety case or revision thereof as the safety representative needs for the purpose of performing any of his functions in circumstances where his entitlement under sub-pararaphs (a) and (b) is insufficient for that purpose.

(2) The references in—

(a) regulation 18 to seeing a document, where the statutory provision concerned allows the information in the document to be kept on film or in electronic form and it is so kept;

(b) regulation 18A(1)(a) to seeing a safety case or revision, where the information in it is kept on film or in electronic form on the installation;

are references to having appropriate facilities to enable him to read that information.”

3.  In regulation 23 insert—

“(c) without prejudice to paragraph (b) above, to consult safety representatives on the preparation of a safety case relating to the installation under the Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992.”

4.  In regulation 25(1) for “regulation 18 above” substitute “regulation 18 or 18A and to provide the facilities to which a safety representative is entitled under those regulations.”

(1)

S.I. 1989/971.