Importance of Health and Safety in the Oil and Gas Sector of UK

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Executive Summary
This report discusses the importance of key aspects of the oil and gas sector of UK. The
detailed description of the risk management techniques in the financial and health
departments of the oil corporation, the complexities in finding the efficient strategy in dealing
with them are discussed in this paper. The role and responsibilities of health and safety
practitioner are evaluated here. The importance of the need for employee training to combat
any type of hazard is given importance in this paper. The report provides statistical data about
the hazards that took place in the corporation in a specific time period is given here. The
various types of rules and regulations related to the safety and security of the employees of
the organisation are stated here along with that the application of different types of advanced
technology such as VOC detector, PID sensor specified and subsea sensors. The impacts of
the failures, work permissions required in the oil corporations in UK, fire and evacuation
procedures and the different types of business and ethical issue are discussed in the paper.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Position and responsibility of health and safety practitioner.....................................................4
Offshore accidents and risks......................................................................................................5
Ethical and business case for health and safety management....................................................7
Health and safety issues.............................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Risk management is a fundamental part of everyday actions in the petroleum industry
as it faces dangers starting from prices of raw materials which are linked to global
socioeconomic factors to increased health and safety, from recent major accidents impacting
the environment as well as the brand reputation of the industry (Wolke, 2017). Risk
management is an extensively used term which operates worldwide covering a different type
of industries. It helps to identify and measure specific hazards and make decisions about
managing and mitigating them in the future. Risk management can be of many types such as
financial risk management and health risk management. In this report, the analysis and
significance of the health risk management are conducted (Modarres, 2016). Oil and gas
industry has much complexities, risks and it involves a considerable number of stakeholders
as they are technologically tough and must stick to tight funds and timetables. There is
always a need for proper and efficient management techniques, constant monitoring and
reviewing of project risks in both the office and site focusing on the development of
management policies to reduce project catastrophes.
To increase project performance and maintain competitiveness in oil and gas industry
effective health risk management strategies are adopted by their administrative bodies. These
strategies are meant to help the corporations to improve value creation among the corporation
deliverables. Safety and health fortification is the main urgency for the petroleum industry
they deal with strict EHS guidelines across the entire process of their productivity ranging
from manufacturing, pipeline management and advertising (Bigliani, 2013). These guidelines
are not only strict but also regularly reviewed to take into reflection of the industrial
development and the risky environments in which petroleum corporations work. Following