The Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committees) Regulations 1989

Safety committee—functions

22.—(1) A safety committee shall have the following functions in relation to the offshore installation which it serves–

(a) without prejudice to the performance of any obligation imposed on the installation manager or any other person by or under any enactment, to keep under review the measures taken to ensure the occupational health and safety of the workforce;

(b) to keep under review, and to make recommendations to the installation manager with regard to, the system of the constituencies so as to ensure adequate representation of the workforce on health and safety matters;

(c) to keep under review the arrangements for the training of safety representatives in accordance with regulation 27 below and to make representations to the employers as appropriate;

(d) without prejudice to the requirements of regulation 21(1) above, to keep under review the frequency of safety committee meetings, the circumstances under which they may be called and to make representations to the installation manager as appropriate;

(e) to consider representations from any member of the safety committee on any matter affecting the occupational health and safety of the workforce and make recommendations to the installation manager as appropriate;

(f) to consider the causes of accidents, dangerous occurrences and cases of occupational ill health and make recommendations to the installation manager as appropriate;

(g) to consider any document relating to the occupational health and safety of the workforce which is required by any statutory provision to be kept on the offshore installation, except any document consisting of or relating to any health record of an identifiable individual;

(h) to prepare and maintain a record of its business a copy of which shall be kept on the installation for one year from the date of the meeting and as soon as practicable after each meeting send the record of that meeting to the installation owner who shall keep it at a place onshore in the United Kingdom until the sixth anniversary of the expiry of the year to which the record relates;

but no function given to a safety committee by this regulation shall be construed as imposing a duty on it.

(2) A safety committee shall seek to advance co-operation on matters affecting occupational health and safety between all parties on the installation which the committee serves and to that end shall seek to promote and develop measures to ensure the occupational health and safety of the workforce.