Agreement on safety training in the North Sea
12/14/2010
The oil and gas industries in Norway, the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark have reached an agreement on safety training.
This will make it easier for personnel to work across national boundaries while maintaining the strict Norwegian standards for such education.
Behind the agreement stand the OLF, the Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association (Nogepa), Oil and Gas UK and the North Sea Operators’ Committee Denmark (NSOC-D).
Their aim has been to ensure that safety courses taken in one country will also be valid in the other North Sea nations.
The agreement can be found as Appendix B in OLF Guideline 002.
Important notice:
Please be informed that the OLF does not approve any training providers outside of Norway.
Training providers who offer OLF certification following their basic offshore safety and emergency training and the refresher courses are not in any way endorsed by OLF.
OLF certificates issued by such providers will not be valid in Norway.
However exceptions are made according to the mutual agreement, between Oil and Gas UK, Nogepa, Danish Operators and OLF.
Source: Link
Also the following news article can be found on the OLF website:
Green light for British and Dutch health certificates
12/20/2012
Persons who hold a British or Dutch health certificate can travel offshore in Norway without a Norwegian health certificate, according to the County Governor of Rogaland.
The County Governor has also determined that there is not a sufficient basis for accepting Danish health certificates, because the Danish system is not as strict as the Norwegian regulations.
"This means that people with health certificates from Oil and Gas UK or NOGEPA can travel offshore in Norway without a Norwegian health certificate, while Danish health certificates are still not accepted," says HSE Manager Aud Nistov in Norwegian Oil and Gas#
She adds that everyone who travels offshore on the Norwegian shelf is subject to all of the rules in the Norwegian health requirement regulations#
"Responsible operators and operations companies must carry out the same supervision to ensure that all offshore personnel comply with the normal practice and rules in the health requirement regulations# It is now important that all companies inform all relevant personnel, including personnel at the heliports, about the changes entailed by the County Governor’s decision," says Nistov#
More information is available on the County Governor’s website.
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