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Helioffshore Industry Safety Performance Report Here Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background <2 2> Author: HeliOffshore Graphic Design: Avid Design Version: 1.0 Publication Date: December 2020 Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the information contained in this report is accurate, HeliOffshore makes no warranty, express or implied, and takes no responsibility as to the accuracy, capability, efficiency, merchantability, or functioning of this information. The user of such information does so at their own risk and has reviewed and independently verified the information for their own purposes. Extracts from this report, including values, graphs and figures, may be published without specific permission from HeliOffshore, provided that HeliOffshore is duly acknowledged as the source and that the material is reproduced accurately, in context and solely for the purpose of safety. HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background 3 Introduction I am pleased to introduce the latest HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance Report. In the following pages, you will find a unique, global, industry-wide perspective on the safety performance of the offshore aviation sector. Safety data is not always easy to read. It reveals our challenges and reminds us of our critical mission to transform global performance so no lives are lost in offshore aviation. This is a mission delivered by one evidence-based safety conversation at a time. Despite its breakthroughs and successes, it remains relentless work. Our industry frontline of pilots, engineers, maintainers, designers and passengers, deserve nothing less. So, thank you for your contribution to date. Thank you for sharing data and for your commitment to act on the priorities it reveals. This report also provides an opportunity for reflection. Where does your safety performance sit in these statistics? Where should it be? We encourage you to draw on HeliOffshore’s membership support and resources to help close the gap. We should always expect to change in response to new data; it either confirms or adjusts our priorities, actions and impact. One thing is sure, we cannot remain the same. Let’s hold each other accountable. Remember, in this challenging year and through all that follows, we are in this together. Tell us what this data means to you. Contact me at [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you, Tim Rolfe CEO, HeliOffshore HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 4 >5m 110 46 More than 5 million passengers 110 members 46 helicopter operator members transported by our members in 2019. Most common helicopter types in Total hours and sectors flown in Oil and Gas global Oil and Gas* in 2019 AW139 21% S76 14% 1 2 million million B212/412 13% hours flown sectors S92 12% *excluding Russian Helicopters For the period 2015-2019 More than 5.5 million hours flown 45 accidents 114 fatalities Other 5-year average industry fatal accident rate Fatal accident occurrence categories (2015-2019) System or component Contr flight into terr Loss on control 3.5 Other 28% 33% surf Controlled ight 3.5 fatal accidents per million flight hours 21% 18% 1.7 Syst omponen ontr failur in flight (LOC-I) 1.7 fatal accidents per million sectors The sources for these data are described within the report HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 5 Executive Summary Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John W. Tukey Mathematician The oil and gas passenger transport sector The 3 most common occurrence is a significant global operation. Based on categories for fatal accidents were: controlled numbers submitted for two-thirds of our flight into terrain or water (CFIT); loss of operator member fleets, our members control in flight (LOC-I); and system or transported in excess of 5 million passengers component failure or malfunction – non- in 2019. This was achieved flying nearly powerplant (SCF-NP). These 3 occurrence 500,000 flight hours over nearly categories accounted for two-thirds of the 1 million flight sectors, or an average of more fatal accident occurrences. than 2,500 sectors per day. The data presented in this report highlight This report was compiled using data gathered the importance of the HeliOffshore Safety from operators, OEMs and industry bodies Intelligence Programme and the benefits combined with information from agencies of sharing data as an industry; only by and regulators to try to give an overall safety collaborating can we hope to understand the picture for one part of the helicopter industry. true safety performance of the industry and measure the improvements as we progress towards our goal of zero accidents. In the 5-year period from 2015-2019 helicopters transporting passengers for the oil and gas industry suffered 45 accidents, 20 of which were fatal, resulting in 114 fatalities. This gives an estimated 5-year fatal accident rate for the industry of 3.5 per million flight hours or 1.7 per million sectors. Fixed-wing operations are clearly different and metrics vary, but for comparison, the Aviation Safety Network gives the global 5-year fatal accident rate for aircraft capable of carrying more than 14 passengers, as 0.4 per million departures. HeliOffshore’s membership has united around the safety strategy which is targeted to eliminate fatalities in our industry; with an interim goal of closing the gap to fixed-wing. HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background 6 Section 1 Introduction and Background HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background 7 1 Introduction and Background 1.1 Introducing HeliOffshore 1.2 The HeliOffshore Safety Strategy HeliOffshore is the global, safety association for the HeliOffshore’s work is based on our Safety Strategy which offshore helicopter industry. Our vision is a safer frontline, identifies the most likely potential accident types and the where no lives are lost, served by an aligned offshore goals we must achieve to prevent each of these. It also helicopter industry. We are delivering our mission by identifies goals that need to be achieved to allow people inspiring a shared safety conversation, identifying the right to survive accidents if they do happen. priorities and resources, and leading the collective action we need to transform frontline safety performance. The key safety programmes we are currently working on include: Flight Path Management, Helicopter Terrain This report presents data which was gathered from Awareness and Warning Systems, Flight Crew Operating operators, manufacturers and regulators, through Manuals, Health and Usage Monitoring Systems and HeliOffshore’s Safety Intelligence Programme, to Return to Base events. You will find more details of these form a comprehensive, authoritative picture of global programmes at HeliOffshore.org. performance. Ultimately, this report’s value will only be realised in the behaviour it changes. We can use this global benchmark to support collaboration, inform practice, drive safety performance and measure the effectiveness of our safety initiatives. The data reveals how far we’ve come on our mission to ensure no lives are lost in offshore aviation and where to focus our collective efforts to deliver the very best safety return. To learn more about our work, please visit HeliOffshore.org. HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background 8 RUSSIA 3 EUROPE 47 ASIA 8 NOR 9 33 AST 1 AFRICA 9 9 3 AUSTRALASIA9 6 Figure 1.1 – Global Distribution of all HeliOffshore Members 1.3 The HeliOffshore Safety Intelligence Programme (HSIP) The HeliOffshore Safety Intelligence Programmes (HSIP) is The programme is run in collaboration with our industrial the mechanism through which the collection and analysis partners: GE Aviation’s Digital Group provide sponsorship of industry data is managed. The aim of the programme and analysis support with Tonic Analytics and NLR is to collect and analyse data on behalf of our members providing data handling and analysis support. to provide information and intelligence through which we can act to improve the safety performance of the industry. HSIP is a cross-cutting workstream which supports and enables many parts of HeliOffshore’s safety programme As part of HSIP, HeliOffshore has developed a including: Memorandum of Understanding. This document sets out the governance process for the programme and the way • the Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring (HFDM) in which data will be handled and presented. At present, Working Group; around two-thirds of HeliOffshore’s operator members have signed the Memorandum of Understanding and • the System Reliability Workstream; and those members that have signed operate more than 85% • the Flightpath Management (FPM) Working Group. of the operator members’ fleet. HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 1: Introduction and Background 9 1.4 Structure of the Report This report is divided into 6 sections: Section 4: deals with the accidents and incidents that have been experienced by the industry and describes the rationale behind the inclusion or exclusion of events; Section 1: sets the context and background for the report; Section 5: summarises the findings and the data collection Section 2: describes the process of data collection and approach that will be adopted in the future ; and some of the assumptions made in the calculations; Section 6: contains appendices giving more information Section 3: focuses on the ‘usage’ data for the industry and data. including the types of aircraft being used and the number of hours and sectors being flown, which is crucial in producing any occurrence rate; HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 2: Data Collection 10 Section 2 Data Collection HeliOffshore Helicopter Safety Performance 2019 Section 2: Data Collection 11 2 Data Collection 2.1 Scope 2.3 Industry Data The scope of this report is oil and gas passenger transport This report aims to reflect the safety performance of operations, whether onshore or offshore.
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