Recommendation 64: Survivability of emergency systems
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
The regulations and related guidance notes should promote an approach to emergency systems:- (i) which provides to a high degree the ability of these systems to survive severe accident conditions (paras 19.188-189); and (ii) which applies to communications systems the fail-safe principle (para 19.193). The emergency systems include the emergency power supplies and systems, the emergency shutdown system and the emergency communications systems. Severe accident conditions include fire, explosion and strong vibration (para 19.188).
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.