Definition(s)

Person In Control

The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations (MAR) 1995 (the 1995 Regulations) introduced a new definition of an ‘offshore installation’ and modified the definition of ‘person in control’. Further details are set out in the guidance to MAR, regulation 3.

Source: Health Care and First Aid on Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works, Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989, Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (UK HSE L123), Second Edition, 2000. Regulatory Guidance

 

Person In Control

In relation to pipeline works, the person in control is not necessarily the same as the pipeline ‘operator’ defined in regulation 2(1) of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996.

Source: Health Care and First Aid on Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works, Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989, Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (UK HSE L123), Second Edition, 2000. Regulatory Guidance

 

Person In Control

“Person in control” means—
(a) in relation to an offshore installation–

  1. the installation manager, or where no such manager has been appointed, the person made responsible by the owner for health and safety on the installation,
  2. the owner, and
  3. every person who, in relation to the installation, is a concession owner,
  4. all as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act;

(b) in relation to pipeline works, the owner of the pipeline or the proposed owner of the proposed pipeline as both are defined in section 33(3) of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (Note: 1975 c. 74.) or, if no person has been designated as the owner of the pipeline or proposed owner of the proposed pipeline in pursuance of the said section 33(3), the person in whom the pipeline is vested or the person for whom it is to be constructed;
(c) in relation to any activity in connection with an offshore installation–

  1. the owner of the installation as defined in section 12 of the 1971 Act, and
  2. the employer of persons engaged in that activity.

Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989, UK S.I. 1989/1671, 1989. Regulations

 

Person In Control

In regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (First-Aid) Regulations 1989 (Note: S.I. 1989/1671.) for paragraph (a) of the definition of “person in control” there shall be substituted the following paragraph: “(a)in relation to an offshore installation, the person who is the duty holder as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations for the purposes of those Regulations”. For paragraph (c) of the definition of “person in control” there shall be substituted the following paragraph: “(c)in relation to an activity in connection with an offshore installation—(i) the person who is, in relation to the installation, the duty holder as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations for the purposes of those Regulations; and (ii) the employer of persons engaged in that activity”.

Source: The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995, UK S.I. 1995/738, 1995. Regulations

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