gasax, sorry but if you are saying it is incorrect that many fewer people have died in transit by helicopter to/from offshore North Sea, than have died whilst working on North Sea oil/gas installations, then I find it very hard to believe and please provide the figures and the source.
If you want to factor it by the number of hours of exposure, then possibly you are right because they spend a long time offshore, and a short time in the helicopter. However in terms of the risk encountered when doing a job offshore, I would consider that to be distorting the figures because it is surely the overall probability of coming to grief during an offshore rotation that is the real-world issue.
If the same number of people had onshore jobs, how many more or less would have died on the roads driving to work every day, than did in a helicopter?
HC
Last edited by HeliComparator; 21st May 2012 at 14:47.