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BY THE NUMBERS as fabrication yards and of? ce work. For the purposes units to that required, leading to indications that bunkers of these safety statistics, “inshore” work (for example in used were one, two or even three orders of magnitude the renewables sector) is considered to be offshore rather (1000x) greater than what was likely given the number than onshore. of offshore man-hours involved and the possible number of vessels involved. On this basis, data from 9 contrac-

Environmental Indicators: This is the third year that tors were omitted from the calculations used to derive an

IMCA has collected information from contractor mem- IMCA indicator.

bers on their environmental performance and IMCA col- This year, IMCA will publish a short summary lea? et lected data as follows: or downloadable report summarizing the 2014 statistics, • Number of oil spills per million man-hours worked; while continuing to publish this detailed statistical analy- •

Liters of oil spilt per million man-hours worked; sis of the safety data in this separate information note.

Bunkers used (either in tonnes or in cubic metres) • per million offshore man-hours worked; •

Megawatt-hours (not kilowatt-hours) electricity used per million onshore man-hours worked;

Tonnes of non-hazardous waste per million overall • (offshore and onshore) man-hours worked; •

Tonnes of hazardous waste per million overall (offshore and onshore) man-hours worked. 88 contractors (78 last year) reported having spilled oil, and 77 (73 last year) reported the quantity spilled. IMCA members reported a total of 674 oil spills (682 last year). “Oil” is not at this stage more closely de? ned – hydraulic oil, engine oil, any non-aqueous petroleum-based ? uid.

Amount of bunkers used was reported by 160 contrac- tors (155 last year), of whom 12 reported by both weight and volume. Some of the data was reported in different

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