Restructuring Of The Offshore Safety Regime

EDM number 192 in 2013-14, proposed by Alex Cunningham on 05/06/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial health and safety, Industrial relations and Oil, petrol and natural gas.

That this House is concerned by the merger of the Offshore Safety Division (OSD) into a single division covering the whole of the UK Energy Sector, as part of a Government exercise to restructure the Health and Safety Executive (HSE); notes that the OSD was set up on the recommendation of Lord Cullen following the Piper Alpha disaster on 6 July 1988; further notes that 2013 is the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster which killed 167 workers and remains the world's worst offshore catastrophe; deplores the HSE's lack of consultation with trade unions and industry prior to the introduction of these changes on 1 April 2013; further notes the call of the offshore trades unions, RMT, GMB and Unite for a survey to be conducted of the workplace culture amongst HSE's offshore safety inspectors; further notes that the forthcoming EU Directive on offshore safety will require further reorganisation of the offshore safety regime for the UK oil and gas sector; and calls on the Government to reinstate the specialist OSD, in line with Cullen, and to convene a meeting of trade unions, industry representatives and HSE officials to discuss the impact of the forthcoming EU Directive on the UK offshore safety regime.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.