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:

Workforce involvement

Ian Whewell

"A strong health and safety culture for offshore means everyone taking responsibility for their actions and playing their part"

Ian Whewell
Head of HSE’s Offshore Division

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HCR incident reporting

Oil Platform

The web-based version of the Hydrocarbon Releases (HCR) System allows dutyholders and other authorised users access to the system to submit incident reports direct to HSE-OSD.

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Updated 19.06.09