Recommendation 11: Modifications and the Safety Case
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
As regards modifications to installations or their equipment or procedures, the operator should, before putting the modification into effect, ascertain what effect, if any, it has on the relevant components of the Safety Case. An operator should be required to report to the regulatory body all intended modifications which meet criteria set by the regulatory body, with a view to discussing with the regulatory body whether and to what extent a review of the Safety Case is required (para 17.47).
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 27 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.