The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “the 1971 Act” means the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971(1);

• “the 1974 Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;

• “the 1989 Order” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Application outside Great Britain) Order 1989(2);

• “first-aid” means–

  (a)

  in cases where a person will need help from a medical practitioner or nurse, treatment for the purpose of preserving life and minimising the consequences of injury and illness until the appropriate help is obtained; and

  (b)

  treatment of minor injuries or illnesses which would otherwise receive no treatment or which do not need treatment by a medical practitioner or nurse (in this sub-paragraph“treatment” includes redressing and other follow-up treatment);

  “offshore installation” means an offshore installation within the meaning of the 1971 Act which is within–

  (a)

  tidal waters and parts of the sea in or adjacent to Great Britain up to the seaward limit of territorial waters;

  (b)

  waters in any area designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964(3);

  (c)

  inland waters within Great Britain;

  “person in control” means–

  (a)

  in relation to an offshore installation–

  (i)

  the installation manager, or where no such manager has been appointed, the person made responsible by the owner for health and safety on the installation,

  (ii)

  the owner, and

  (iii)

  every person who, in relation to the installation, is a concession owner,

  all as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act;

  (b)

  in relation to pipeline works, the owner of the pipeline or the proposed owner of the proposed pipeline as both are defined in section 33(3) of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975(4) or, if no person has been designated as the owner of the pipeline or proposed owner of the proposed pipeline in pursuance of the said section 33(3), the person in whom the pipeline is vested or the person for whom it is to be constructed;

  (c)

  in relation to any activity in connection with an offshore installation–

  (i)

  the owner of the installation as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act, and

  (ii)

  the employer of persons engaged in that activity;

  “pipeline” means any pipeline or part of a pipeline in relation to which sections 1 to 59 and 80 to 82 of the 1974 Act are applied by article 5 of the 1989 Order and any pipeline or part of a pipeline which is connected to it or to an offshore installation and which is in, under or over inland waters within Great Britain or tidal waters and parts of the sea in or adjacent to Great Britain;

• “pipeline works” means any of the works mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of pipeline works in article 5 of the 1989 Order which relate to a pipeline within the meaning of these Regulations;

• “sick bay” means a room for the medical treatment and care of sick and injured persons.

(1)

1971 c. 61; section 1 was substituted by section 24 of, and section 12 was amended by section 37 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to, the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982 (c. 23).

(2)

S.I. 1989/840.

(3)

1964 c. 29.

(4)

1975 c. 74.