Recommendation 62: Facilities for control of emergencies
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
It should be required by regulation that there should be available within the TSR certain minimum specified facilities for the monitoring and control of an emergency under hostile outside conditions (paras 19.178 and 19.182). These facilities should be in the Control Room, which should be located in the TSR (para 19.179). On existing installations where the Control Room is not in the TSR, these facilities should be in an Emergency Control Centre located in the TSR. In such a case the Control Room should be protected against fire and explosion as determined by safety assessment (paras 19.180-181).
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.