HSE's Offshore Division (OSD) is responsible for the offshore oil and gas industry. Our mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled. Our current priorities are:
HSE’s Loss of Containment Manual has been revised. The expanded document now gives advice on ten important elements of process integrity, and should help industry to further reduce the number of offshore hydrocarbon releases.
The Elgin platform gas release was stopped on Tuesday 15 May, and HSE Inspectors are about to visit the platform to commence their offshore investigation.