Recommendation 85: Personal survival equipment for each person
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
Each individual on board an installation should be provided with:- (i) a personal survival (or immersion) suit; (ii) a life-jacket; (iii) a smoke hood of a simple filter type to exclude smoke and provide protection for at least 10 minutes during escape to or from the TSR; (iv) a torch; and (v) fireproof gloves. These articles should be kept in the accommodation (para 20.36). Other survival suits, life-jackets and smoke hoods for at least one half of the number of persons on the installation should be stored in containers placed at suitable locations on the installation (para 20.36).
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.