{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/743",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-installations-prevention-of-fire-and-explosion-and-emergency-response-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Emergency response plan",
  "text": "(1) The duty holder shall, after consulting persons who are likely to become involved in emergency response, prepare and, as often as is appropriate, revise a document (in this regulation called “the emergency response plan\") containing sufficient information, for the guidance of such persons, on—\n(a) the organisation and arrangements which are to have effect in an emergency; and\n(b) procedures by way of emergency response to be followed in different circumstances.\n(2) The duty holder shall ensure that—\n(a) the emergency response plan is available to all persons on the installation; and\n(b) each person on the installation, and each person who may be called upon to assist in implementing the emergency response plan, are given such notification of its contents as is sufficient for them.\n(3) The duty holder shall ensure that the organisation, arrangements and procedures referred to in paragraph (1) are tested, by practice and otherwise, as often as may be appropriate.\n(4) Every person on the installation shall, in an emergency, so far as is practicable, conform to the appropriate procedure in the plan.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/743/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:05.380287+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}