Welcome to NOPSA!

NOPSA is a Statutory Agency regulating Commonwealth, State and Territory coastal waters with accountability to the relevant Ministers. The Authority has its headquarters in Perth and commenced operations on 1 January 2005.

The role of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) is to administer offshore petroleum safety legislation. The organisation's primary objectives include:

Improving health and safety outcomes across the offshore petroleum industry
Ensuring health and safety regulation of the offshore petroleum industry is provided to standards that are equal to the best in the world
Reducing the regulatory burden on the offshore petroleum industry, which operates across multiple jurisdictions, by delivering a consistent and comprehensive health and safety regime.

News and Events

Farewell address from inaugural CEO of NOPSA

John Clegg provides a personal reflection on his journey building up the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority over the last five years.
Links: Download a copy here.

Launch of Offshore Health and Safety Performance Report

A summary of incidents reported by industry to NOPSA has been collated and analysed in an industry safety performance report. The current report contains analyses of incidents from 2007-08 and information from NOPSA's two national programmes on facility integrity and lifting operations.
Links: Download the final report.

Safety Case Guidance Notes

The first suite of safety case guidance notes have been developed and published by NOPSA to provide guidance with respect to safety case content and lifecycle management requirements. A series of consultative workshops focused on the next range of guidance notes covering the formal safety assessment process is planned for July and August. Please refer to the schedule of consultations and workshops.

New NOPSA Board Members

NOPSA welcomes three new board members who bring extensive experience in the areas of risk management, petroleum operations and policy decision-making. They are Tony Pooley, Michael Ollis and Dr Lynne Chester. Read more.