This Approved Code of Practice and guidance has been prepared to help dutyholders understand and comply with the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 and offers practical advice on what they might do.
The Regulations require dutyholders to ensure adequate first aid and basic health care provision for all personnel, including visitors, at such sites and offers practical advice for given situations.
It contains full text of the Regulations, which, among other subjects, covers the meanings of ‘work’ and ‘at work’. Appendices include an assessment of first aid and basic health care needs and the roles and responsibilities of offshore medics and first-aiders.
