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2013 Review of Cost Recovery Arrangements - 30 June

NOPSEMA seeks your input into the 2013 Review of Cost Recovery Arrangements. You are invited to provide a written submission by 30 June 2013, addressing the Terms of Reference and estimates of firm activity levels (P90) for 2013-14 and 2014-15. Click here for the Terms of Reference and activity estimates form.


NOPSEMA publishes Annual Offshore Performance Report

NOPSEMA has published its Annual Offshore Performance Report, the authority's yearly stocktake of risk management by the Australian offshore petroleum industry.

The report includes regulatory data and information collected by NOPSEMA on injuries and fatalities, incidents, inspections, assessments, investigations and enforcements from offshore petroleum operations in the authority’s jurisdiction to 31 December 2012. 

For the first time, the report includes data on environmental management, in addition to occupational health and safety and well integrity.

View the full Annual Offshore Performance Report


Safety Alert #56 - Dropped objects

The purpose of this safety alert is to highlight a concerning increase in dropped object events in the first quarter of 2013.

NOPSEMA re-emphasises the need to appropriately apply the hierarchy of controls to dropped object hazards.

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Introduction to Human Factors

Identification and management of human factors is critical for the effective and reliable minimisation of risk.

Introduction to Human Factors


Newsletter

Banner image: NOPSEMA the Regulator Portrait: Jane Cutler, CEO

Latest Issue

the Regulator - Issue #2 2013  (994.70K)

In this issue:

  • From the CEO
  • Guidance on enforcement
  • HSR Forum 2013
  • Effective personnel resourcing
  • Spill preparedness and response
  • Ageing facilities
  • Safety Alert #56
  • Discussing environmental management
  • Effective noise control
  • Safety improvement initiatives
  • Diving decompression chambers
  • Activity and performance
  • Upcoming events

Annual Report 2011-2012

The 2011-12 NOPSEMA Annual Report has been tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament and is published on our Corporate Plans and Reports page.

Incidents

Stena Clyde fatalities, Bass Strait, 27 Aug 2012


NOPSEMA is continuing its independent investigation into the fatalities on the Stena Clyde mobile offshore drilling facility in the Bass Strait on 27 August 2012.

Announcement on preliminary considerations (17 Oct 2012)

Independent investigation into fatal accident on Stena Clyde (29 Aug)

NOPSEMA investigates fatalities in Bass Strait (27 Aug)

 

Careers

A priority for NOPSEMA is to recruit widely to attract quality employees from domestic and international markets.

We aim to foster a professional, innovative and influential workplace that makes a positive difference to safety and environmental outcomes.

The Australian offshore industry's success is inherently aligned to its duty of care to its workforce, the environment and the community, and it is NOPSEMA's responsibility to ensure that industry takes the necessary precautions and measures required in the legislation.

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Events and Presentations

 

See our Events and Presentations schedule for 2013