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Relevant Statutes:

• Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995 [PFEER]
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 [MHSWR]
• Management and Administration Regulations 1992, Reg 11 [MAR]
• Safety Case Regulations 1992 [SCR]

Duty Holders are required to identify circumstances that require written health and safety procedures. These written procedures must be understandable by those who will have to use them.

Written instructions should take account of everyone at risk and for example they might set out precautions against manual handling injuries.

Circumstances when written procedures are required can be identified from

• The safety case
• Fire and explosion assessments
• Risk assessments

Examples of circumstances where written instructions are required are

• isolation procedures
• working over the side
• helideck operations
• inspection and maintenance procedures The instructions should identify where a work permit is required

The instructions need not be 'written' on paper, they could be in a computer provided they can be read by printing them out or by reading a display screen.

Written Instructions must be brought to the attention of anyone who has to comply with them. There are many ways of doing this, training, permit arrangements, tool box talks etc. and it is not always necessary to pass the instructions in writing.