What are offshore safety critical elements?

By definition Offshore Safety critical elements are those parts of an offshore installation and such of its Components (including Subsea, Topside, Ancillary, Distribution, or even computer programmes), or any part thereof

- the failure of which could cause or contribute substantially to; or,

- the purpose of which is to prevent or limit

the effect of a major accident.

These could include BOPs, ESD, Overpressure Protection, Flare & Blowdown, Emergency Power, Hydrocarbon Contaiment, among others.