Government response
Not tracked (historical inquiry)
Delivery
No statement from the addressee found
Recommendation 71: Review of pipeline emergency procedures
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
Operators should be required by regulation regularly to review pipeline emergency procedures and manuals. The review should ensure that the information contained in manuals is correct, that the procedures contained are agreed with those who are responsible for executing them and are consistent with the procedures of installations connected by hydrocarbon pipelines (para 19.196).
Jurisdiction: UK-wide
Page: 396
Reference: Recommendation 71
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
Recommendation made
35.9 years ago