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North Sea as Dangerous as Last YearThe Health and Safety Executive and Step Change have reiterated their commitment to making the UK offshore oil and gas industry the safest in the world by 2010. The pledge follows publication of the HSE's third annual offshore safety statistics bulletin, which reports that three people died in offshore incidents in 2001-2, the same as in the previous year, while the number of serious injuries increased by two to 55 over the same period. The Offshore Safety Bulletin has been specifically written for the offshore workforce and their safety representatives. It aims to present a clear, easy to understand summary of the numbers and types of incident that have happened in the 12 months leading up to 31 March 2002. Although the results appear to show little or no improvement on last year, there has been an 8% improvement in the fatal and major injury rate and a 38% improvement in the all injury rate since 1997. The Offshore Safety Bulletin is available from the HSE website. |