ABSTRACT
The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 1992 were introduced to implement Lord Cullen’s recommendations. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988 (now 1999) and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, (the latter originally in response to the EC’s Framework Directive) have placed obligations on employers generally to assess and respond to the risks arising from their activities. However, it is only in relation to those ultra-hazardous onshore installations, which are covered by the upper tier requirements of the Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regulations, and in relation to offshore installations, that it is intended that a safety case be made out and submitted to the inspectorate, before the activity commences: in the other situations, the employer’s duty is to produce satisfactory evidence that there has been an assessment and an appropriate response at any time that this evidence is requested.
