25th May 2016
Dr Graham Furnace
Update 2016
Update 2016
1 Examining Doctor Facts and Figures2 Helicopters3 Smoking/e-cigarettes
Oil Price: 2011-2016
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Update 2016
1 Examining Doctor Facts and Figures
2 Helicopters
3 Smoking/e-cigarettes
Examining Doctor Facts and Figures
2010 2015 2016
Countries 37 55 60
Doctors 796 1047 1014
% in UK 54 48.8 44
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England 269
Scotland 162
Wales 12
Northern Ireland 4
Channel Isles 1
Doctors – UK (448)
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Doctors – Rest of World (556)
USA 69
Australia 67
Germany 30
India, T&T, Philippines, Singapore, Denmark Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Ireland, Canada, France, Thailand, UAE, S. Africa,
Ghana, Indonesia, Angola, Nigeria
10-28
New Zealand, Spain, Egypt, Netherlands, Romania, Brazil, Georgia, Croatia, Italy, Khazakhstan, Malta, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Chad, Mozambique, Tanzania, Austria, Brunei, China, Iraq, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Timor Leste,
Ukraine
2-8
Ivory Coast, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Bahrain, Belgium, Falkland Isles, Faroe Isles, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Myanmar
1
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2008 2011 2012 2013 2014 20150
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
Medicals 2008 - 2015 (Total)
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2008 2011 2012 2013 2014 20150
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Medicals 2008 - 2015 (Fail)
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Year Returns Total Fail (%)
2008 367 39780 503 (1.2)
2011 580 59900 665 (1.0)
2012 707 93219 1284 (1.4)
2013 809 113006 1333 (1.2)
2014 931 118597 1285 (1.1)
2015 900 111651 1125 (1.0)
Medicals 2008 - 2015
Examining doctor courses 2011 to date
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Year Courses No. Trained2011 8 119
2012 8 118
2013 9 161
2014 9 158
2015 11 183
2016 2 (5) 13
Total 47 (50) 752
Examining Doctor Courses
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Doctors on List 1014
Doctors attended course 520
Doctors Trained since 2011 752
Joined 2015 154Left 2015 89
Examining Doctor Courses
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Doctor Training Course – a question
The ‘HUET’ experience – keep or remove?
Update 2016
1 Examining Doctor Facts and Figures
2 Helicopters
3 Smoking/e-cigarettes
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G-WNSB 23 August 2013, 17:17, 1.7nm W of Sumburgh
En-route Borgsten Dolphin to Sumburgh
(partial) autopilot approach, in cloud – instruments only
Failure to maintain required 80kt airspeed – 35kt
Failure to maintain required vertical flightpath – descent below 300ft minimum descent
altitude
Descent below 300ft in ‘critically low-energy state’; inadequate time to recover
Impact sea (1800fpm), filled with water, rolled inverted to left, remained afloat
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Casualties - fatal
16 passengers, 2 crew
4 fatalities – all passengers – 2 did not get out; 1 lifeless on sea surface, 1 died in liferaft
AAIB Report 15 March 2016 - Section 1.13 Medical and Pathological Information
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‘H’: recovered lifeless from sea. Minor head and other injuries, not incapacitating. Drowned
‘I’: escaped successfully assisted by others onto inverted fuselage and then into liferaft. Then signs of chest pain and stopped breathing: unsuccessful CPR. PM showed significant pre-existing heart disease
‘K’: still secured in seat. Left-sided head injury, cause unknown. Drowned, likely due to incapacitation from head injury
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‘E’: recovered from water after fuselage broken up by wave action and rocks (i.e. not restrained in seat). EBS mouthpiece deployed and valve operated. Minor injuries, not incapacitating. Drowned. Failed to escape.
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Visibility variable – some good, others ‘feel only’
4 windows removed underwater – more than one attempt required
‘only a few’ Px had time to take a breath. Some reached trapped air pockets
No comment whatsoever about ease or otherwise of body passage through exits
Survivability Aspects
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CAA ResponseInterim bulletins 18 Oct 2013 (Sumburgh fast rescue craft)
and 23 Jan 2014 (EBS pre-flight briefings)
CAP 1145 20 Feb 2014:
With effect from 01 April 2015, helicopter operators are to ensure that only passengers with a body size (including all required safety and survival equipment) commensurate with push-out window exit size are carried on offshore helicopter flights.
With effect from 01 April 2016, helicopter operators are to ensure that for all offshore helicopter operations all occupants (passengers and crew) wear EBS that meets the CAP 1034 Category ‘A’ performance specification.
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Progress to date
A. Shoulder measurement process
B. CAT ‘A’ compressed air EBS in service
C. Training…..
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Training Issues
Is it ‘Diving’?
Risk – barotrauma
Medical Screening Required
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Under (ongoing) Discussion
HSE: exemption from diving at work regs, but requirement for ‘dive medical’ (lung function tests for all, exercise test for asthmatics)
How great is the risk?
Canadian Experience
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Doctor Training Course – a question
The ‘HUET’ experience – keep or remove?
Update 2016
1 Examining Doctor Facts and Figures
2 Helicopters
3 Smoking/e-cigarettes
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Smoking statistics
230 of 942 (24%) male offshore workers = smokers
209 of 942 (22%) ex-smokers
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Three Generations of e-cigarette
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Oil&Gas UK Advisory Note February 2015
Tobacco nicotine – aim for consistency with onshore public health measures
Nicotine vapourisers (e-cigarettes) – not permitted unless and until given a medical product licence (like NRT)
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Recent Developments
Royal College of Physicians Report 28 April 2016
‘Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction’
EU Tobacco Products Directive 18 May 2016
E-cigarette with a medical product licence
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‘Voke’
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‘e-Voke’
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What next?
For discussion at next Health & Safety Forum
What do you think?