Recommendation 105: UKOOA guidelines for emergency training
From The Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha Disaster, published 12 November 1990.
Recommendation
The UKOOA guidelines for offshore emergency safety training on installations should be a minimum requirement for survival, fire-fighting and other forms of training detailed therein for the relevant personnel employed offshore. Personnel who have not met the requirements of these guidelines should not be permitted to work offshore (para 20.64). In order to ensure that these guidelines are complied with operators should be required to devise and maintain a system for the purpose, pending the date when the central training register instituted by OPITB for recording the personal details and safety training courses attended by all personnel seeking employment offshore is fully operational (para 20.64).
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.