OIAC - Workforce Involvement Group

The Workforce Involvement Workgroup (WIG) looks specifically at ways in which to increase offshore worker involvement in health and safety matters. It's membership reflects key players across the industry. Current members are:

Terms of reference

Its terms of reference are:

• to promote greater workforce involvement in health and safety in the workplace.
• to encourage voluntary expansion of workplace health and safety representation.
• to share and promote industry best practice to raise workplace health and safety standards.

Workforce Involvement Group meetings

Offshore workforce involvement events

Murrayfield - 8 May 2008

• Murrayfield - 8 May 2008 Agenda
• Presentation - Mikey Craig
• Presentation - Alistair McGilvray
• Group exercise - WIG incidents

Norwich - 11 March 2009

• Norwich - 11 March 2009 Agenda

Thainstone, Aberdeen - 11 June 2009

• Thainstone, Aberdeen - 11 June 2009 Agenda
• Presentation - Workforce involvement in Norway (Magne Ognedal, Director General Petroleum Safety Authority, Norway)
• Presentation - Barriers presentation (John Skeggs, International Association of Drilling Contractors, North Sea Chapter)
• Presentation - NRB (Jake Molloy, RMT)
• Presentation - Shell presentation on workforce involvement (Steve Lyne)
• Presentation - Rough Installation Presentation (Glenn Sibbick, Centrica Storage Limited)
  Delegates wishing to obtain a copy of the Centrica Rough Incident DVD should email Rebecca Sunshine at Centrica Rebecca.Sunshine@centrica-sl.co.uk.

Reviews/Reports/Surveys

• KP3 Review project report on workforce involvement
  As part of the KP3 Review the OIAC Workforce Involvement Group (WIG) was asked to contribute a report on offshore workforce involvement. The WIG explored a range of existing mechanisms for workforce involvement - including the roles of elected safety representatives and safety committees - and produced an independent report which forms Annex 5 of the KP3 Review Report.
• The 2009 Offshore Workforce Survey

Publications

• 'Play your part!'

Contact the Workforce Involvement Group

WIG Secretary
Offshore Diving & Pipeline Policy Section,
5S.1 Redgrave Court,
Merton Road,
Bootle
Merseyside
L20 7HS
Email WIG Secretary: wig.secretariat@hse.gsi.gov.uk