Relevant Statutes:
- Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995, Reg 15 [PFEER]
The Duty Holder shall make suitable arrangements to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the evacuation of all persons to a place of safety.
Evacuation means leaving the installation (and its vicinity), in an emergency in a systematic manner and without entering the sea.
Place of safety means a safe location where medical treatment and other facilities for the care of survivors are available.
The means of evacuation could include:
- helicopters
- direct sea transfer
- bridge-links
- TEMPSC
It is recognised that duty holders may have to depend on the action of others (e.g. search and rescue services) to achieve safe evacuation and are not therefore required to take all actions in an evacuation. They should ensure arrangements are made for actions to be taken by others and these should be agreed between the parties and documented.
Recommended Further Reading
- Guide to the Safety Case Regulations L30 HSE Books ISBN 0 11882055 9
- The OIM's Manual: Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation.
- ACOP. OFFSHORE - RESCUE - PERFORMANCE AND RESCUE TIMES
Effect of weather on performance and response times in offshore rescue.
HSE, 1999. (OTO 1999 006) Free from HSE Admin, Research Strategy Unit, Room 203, Merton House, Stanley Road, Bootle, Merseyside L20 3DL
Published May 1999
This report provides new information on techniques for quantifying speed reduction of rescue craft due to weather, discussion on the influence of sea state on related activities in the rescue chain, and examples of how such information might be used in response time estimates.