In 2017 a first instrument for the appraisal of safety of the offshore industry will be introduced



The Ministry of the economic Development has announced that next the years the first instrument for the measurement will become operating, the appraisal and I confront of the outcome of all the actions to protection of safety of the workers, the systems and the atmosphere, realized for the operations offshore in Italy. The ministry has explained that the "synthetic Indicator of Safety" is born from a Network of university, research centers and bodies of the State, promoted and constituted near the Ministry, in compliance with the prescription of directive 2013/30/UE on safety of the operations in sea in the field of hydrocarbons and with the objective to facilitate the dialogue with local governments and citizenship.

The Ministry has remembered that already beginning from 2014, in response on the importance increasing and the strong interest in the European and international panorama on safety of the activities in sea, the Head office for Safety of the energetic activities of Mise has started a series of agreements for the systems offshore: in total 12 it comes to an agreement with bodies of the State (Marina Militare and Corpo of the Harbour offices), with university (Polytechnic of Turin, University the Wisdom, University of Bologna, CRIET Milan) and with agencies of search (AMRA, INGV, IREA, ISMAR, OGS, RSE).

Thanks to the first results, achieved with agencies partner in the course of 2016 in the respective withins of search, a prototype of the instrument based on three indicators of performance is today available: industrial accidents, sea and air activity of patrolling, inspecting inspections on infrastructures. Within the 2017 synthetic Indicator of Safety it will be operating operatively and it will be able consequently to supply an appraisal in very simple form - from I confront directed of numerical values - of the level of national safety.

While yesterday to Rome the Ministry of the economic Development has signed an agreement with the Emilia-Romagna Region for the management of the search activities and cultivation of hydrocarbons offshore and relative infrastructures. "The field of interest of the agreement - the president of the regional agency has explained, Stefano Bonaccini - is to wide beam. It is not limited to the single sharing of programs of development of systems of monitoring for safety of the productions and the atmosphere, but the objective is set to for sustainable development develop relative strategic lines to the offshore activities in a context of policies integrated and for the entire economic, social and environmental system of the sea and the coastal zones".

Between the objectives of the understanding that to guarantee and to improve safety of the offshore activities being developed protocols of monitoring, studies, projects and actions pilot who previews integration of the activities with the programs and the projects of tourist development, productive and of scientific monitoring. He goes himself from the development of innovative technologies for "decommissioning" finalized to the reuse of the platforms for the metanifera extraction and the formation of "environmental atolls" but also places of international search in the within of the Programs of the Macroregion Adriatic-Ionic. Still, scientific laboratories in order to in open sea study earthquakes also to the platforms opened to the tourists tourist-recreational purpose.