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25: Offshore safety division within HSE

From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.

Recommendation

The functions of the Petroleum Engineering Division of the Department of Energy (DEn) which are concerned with the regulation of offshore safety should in future be discharged by a discrete division of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which is exclusively devoted to offshore safety (paras 22.34 and 22.37).

Jurisdiction: UK-wide
Page: 392
Reference: Recommendation 25

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.

Source

Inquiry Piper Alpha Inquiry
Report The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster 12 Nov 1990
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Themes and tags

Quality and safety oversight Patient safety governance
Recommendation made 35.9 years ago