Health and Safety Executive

Offshore oil and gas

offshore oil platform

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:

Revised Loss of Containment Manual published

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.

Further information

Elgin gas leak update

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.

Further information on on the Elgin platform gas leak


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Updated 23.05.12