Abstract
The “crisis” has very broad meaning in general, such as aneconomic crisis, or earthquake or typhoon in natural calamity, abduction or war, or blowout, fatalities or oil spill in E&P in the oil industry, etc. However, if we limit the meaning of the word as “an emergency situation” which will be experienced on board an offshore drilling rig, the crisis (emergency) management system can be considered integral to the HS&E management system as a hazard management system. From this viewpoint, this paper provides a brief outline the element of both a “Shell style” Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) Management System and a hazard management system. With respect to the hazard management system, the comparison between Shell style system and one required in North Sea UK sector shows us a consistency of the both systems in spite of the difference in the procedure of hazards evaluation.
