The current status and future aspects of offshore safety assessment in the UK

摘要

In response to the accepted findings of the Piper Alpha enquiry it launched a review of all offshore safety legislation and implemented changes in the UK. The changes sought to replace legislation which was seen as prescriptive with a more "goal setting" regime. The offshore installations (safety case) regulations were then developed in 1992 and came into force in 1993. Recently, "the offshore installations and wells (design and construction. etc.) regulations" (DCR 1996) were introduced to offshore safety analysis. From the earliest stages of the installation's life cycle operators must ensure that all safety-critical elements in both the software and system domains be assessed.