OEUK has published the CPOGS report ‘Anthropometry of Offshore Personnel – Statistical Analysis of the Weight of UK Offshore Workers’.
OEUK commissioned the statistical analysis from subject matter experts CPOGS to provide a baseline for offshore weight calculations. The report should assist offshore Duty Holders to assess the suitability of their lifeboats for their offshore population.
The report can be downloaded from the OEUK Website by clicking on the link below.
The weight and size of offshore energy workers in the UK sector is increasing, which impacts adversely on the design and operation of key offshore equipment including escape and evacuation systems.
The maximum passenger capacity of lifeboats and liferafts is adversely affected by increases in the average weight of the offshore worker population. Our Anthropometry report focusses on the impact associated with the increasing weight of offshore personnel upon evacuation systems.
Statistical reprocessing of the Vantage-POB weight data for the 2022 UK population of offshore workers was completed as part of the preparation of the report. The processing of the data confirmed that the average weight of UK offshore workers in 2022 was approximately 96.56kg, and the standard deviation for the offshore population was 15.59kg. This represents a significant increase of about 10kg in the average weight of offshore personnel since 2008.
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