Schedule 1
(Regulation 4(g))
DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES
1. Failure of a load bearing part of a lifting machinery, including lifts, hoists, cradles, access platforms.
2. In the case of pressure systems, the failure of a closed vessel, including a boiler or boiler tube or an associated pipework.
3. Electrical short circuits or overloads attended by fire or explosion which causes stoppage of plant involved for more than 24 hours, or has the potential to cause the death of a person.
4. Explosions or fires caused by an explosion.
5. Escape of dangerous substances, including poisons, flammable and biological substances in a quantity sufficient to cause the death, major injury or other damage to the health of a person.
6. Malfunctioning of breathing apparatus —
(a) while in use; or
(b) during testing immediately prior to use in such a way that had the malfunction occurred while the apparatus was in use it would have posed a danger to the health or safety of the user.
Note: This paragraph does not apply to breathing apparatus that is being maintained or tested as part of a routine maintenance procedure.
7. Any of the following incidents in relation to a diving operation —
(a) the failure or the endangering of —
(i) lifting equipment associated with a diving project, or
(ii) life support equipment, including control panels, hoses and breathing apparatus, that exposes a diver to a risk;
(b) damage to, or endangering of the dive platform, or a failure of the dive platform to remain on station, which puts a diver at risk;
(c) the trapping of a diver;
(d) an explosion in the vicinity of a diver; or
(e) an uncontrollable ascent or an omitted decompression which puts a diver at risk;
(f) the complete or partial collapse of —
(i) a scaffold that is —
(A) more than five metres in height which results in a substantial part of the scaffold falling or overturning; or
(B) erected over or adjacent to water in circumstances that there would be a risk of drowning to a person falling from the scaffold into the water, or
(ii) the suspension arrangements, including any outrigger, of any slung or suspended scaffold which causes a working platform or cradle to fall.
8. The following incidents in respect of a pipeline or pipeline works —
(a) the uncontrollable or accidental escape of anything from, or in-rush of anything into, a pipeline which has the potential to cause death, major injury or damage to the health of a person;
(b) the unintentional ignition of anything in a pipeline or of anything which, immediately before it was ignited, was in a pipeline;
(c) damage to a part of a pipeline which has the potential to cause the death, major injury or damage to the health of a person;
(d) failure of a pipeline isolation device, equipment or system that has the potential to cause the death of a person, major injury of a person or damage to the health of a person; or
(e) failure of equipment involved with pipeline works which has the potential to cause the death, major injury or damage to the health of a person.
9. A collision between two vessels or between a vessel and a shore facility or an offshore installation and a standing or grounding, which results in damage to the vessel or the shore facility or offshore installation.
10. Identifying the potential for a collision to occur between a vessel and an offshore installation that may jeopardize the overall structural integrity of the offshore installation.
11. The occurrence, with respect to a vessel or offshore installation having the potential to cause death or major injury, of one of the following —
(a) failure of equipment required to maintain a floating offshore installation on station;
(b) dropping an object on an offshore installation or on an attendant vessel or into the water adjacent to an offshore installation or vessel; or
(c) damage to a vessel or on an offshore installation caused by adverse weather conditions.
12. Loss of stability or buoyancy of a vessel or floating offshore installation.
13. An evacuation of a vessel or an offshore installation, in whole or part, in the interest of public safety.
14. Where a person falls more than 2m into the sea.