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The oil and gas industry operates in many locations where people work, and often live together, in close quarters, such as offshore installations, ships, and remote camps. In these types of locations, infectious diseases can spread rapidly, affect workers, and disrupt operations. This guidance has been developed for local management and operations personnel working in these locations.
This recommended practice identifies key drug and alcohol programme elements and is intended for use by contractor companies and oil and gas industry owners and operators.
The Readiness Evaluation Tool for Oil Spills (RETOS™) aims to assist governments and companies in assessing their level of oil spill response planning and readiness management.
Oil and gas operations take place in many countries where the quality of medical services and specialities differs. It is therefore important for a company to assess local health facilities to ensure that they can provide optimal medical care for their workers.
This industry-specific document provides guidance on the prevention of food- and water-related diseases.
An Incident Management System (IMS) is essential to optimizing response times and efficiency, providing clarity in command and control, improving resource coordination and communications, and facilitating the cooperation and integration of responding organizations.
This document is aimed at those persons responsible for ensuring that oil spill contingency plans are practised and verified, providing guidance on constructing an exercise programme that is suitable for meeting an organization’s or facility’s requirements.
This document identifies the principal health and safety issues when an oil spill occurs, their degree of severity and the practical steps to minimize the impact of the spill.
Indicators for the health performance of the industry are a necessary part of effective health management and the promotion of improvements in health performance.
This document provides guidance for business leaders, HSE professionals, and health practitioners on the business case for outcome-focused and cost-effective medical emergency response (MER) and primary healthcare in the energy industries.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.
This document provides occupational health, HSE and occupational hygiene practitioners in the energy industries with pragmatic advice on how workplace lighting can limit circadian disruption and enhance health, safety, and performance.
This report presents recommendations for optimal health risk assessment and management within a health, safety, and environment management programme.
This document aims to help operators navigate the steps involved in implementing and maintaining a surveillance programme during a response to an oil spill.
This document is a culmination of the good practices, information and strategies developed by Ipieca and IOGP members to respond to the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This joint Ipieca-IOGP technical support document helps operators navigate the steps and good practices involved in planning for, and implementing, a monitoring and sampling programme.
This technical support document describes how to manage all the required onshore activities when dealing with an oil spill.
Ipieca has partnered with IOGP to develop new guidance on managing health in the oil and gas industry.
Ipieca has released updated guidance on oil spill preparedness and response.
The guidance provides an overview of the issues around fatigue with a focus on developing, implementing and evaluating a fatigue risk management system.
This document provides a summary of the 2019 Ipieca-IOGP guidance on managing health in the oil and gas industry.
This report was developed to share guidance with those interested in understanding subsea well response competency and the skills that sit within it.
Checklist for medical emergency response planning for the oil and gas industry.
This Good Practice Guide (GPG) builds on two reports, the first produced on behalf of the Ipieca-IOGP OSR-JIP...
In-situ burning (ISB) is the controlled combustion or burning of hydrocarbon vapours...
This guide defines and outlines the purpose and value of health impact assessments within the oil and gas industry...
This document sets out the important factors to be considered when contemplating the clean-up of an oiled shoreline... (Revision 2016)
At sea containment and recovery is the controlled encounter and collection of oil from the water's surface. (Revision 2016)
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel. (Revision 2016)
Most large, well-known oil spills have occurred in the marine environment rather than inland... (Revision 2016)
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel (Revision 2016)
Good practice guidelines for incident management and emergency response personnel.
Title Type Theme Published Download 
Infectious disease outbreak management Good practice guidance People 05 Sep 2024 
Oil and gas contractor drug and alcohol testing recommended practice Good practice guidance People 29 Aug 2024 
Readiness evaluation tool for oil spills Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 09 Jul 2024 
Medical facilities assessment Good practice guidance People 07 Feb 2024 
Food and water safety in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 10 Nov 2023 
Incident Management System for the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 
Oil spill exercises Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 
Oil spill responder health and safety Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Aug 2023 
Health performance indicators Good practice guidance People 04 Jul 2023 
Medical emergency response and primary healthcare guideline Good practice guidance People 08 Dec 2022 
Economic assessment and compensation for marine oil releases Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2022 
Managing light exposure in the energy industries Good practice guidance People 18 May 2022 
Health risk assessment and management Good practice guidance People 05 Apr 2022 
Oil spill surveillance planning guidance Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 23 Nov 2021 
Pandemic management in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 07 Apr 2021 
Oil spill monitoring and sampling Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Nov 2020 
Shoreline response programme guidance Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 14 Jul 2020 
Health management in the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 01 Feb 2020 
Oil spill preparedness and response: an introduction Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 12 Aug 2019 
Managing fatigue in the workplace Good practice guidance People 25 Mar 2019 
Health management in the oil and gas industry (Executive summary) Good practice guidance People 01 Feb 2019 
Guidance for subsea source control competency and skills Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 01 Jan 2019 
Multiple casualty planning and preparation Good practice guidance People 30 Mar 2017 
Satellite remote sensing of oil spills at sea Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Dec 2016 
Controlled in-situ burning of spilled oil Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 20 Oct 2016 
Health impact assessment: a guide for the oil and gas industry Good practice guidance People 01 Mar 2016 
A guide to shoreline clean-up techniques Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 10 Dec 2015 
At-sea containment and recovery Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 01 Dec 2015 
Impacts of oil spills on marine ecology Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 12 Nov 2015 
Oil spills: inland response Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 09 Sep 2015 
A guide to oiled shoreline clean-up techniques Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 11 Jun 2015 
Dispersants: subsea application Good practice guidance Marine spill preparedness and response 01 Jun 2015