30-years experience of worldwide offshore accident history is systemised and stored in DNV’s Worldwide Offshore Accident Databank, Woad.

It is the world’s most comprehensive data source of its kind available for offshore risk assessments and emergency planning.

Learning lessons learnt from accidents is vital in order to avoid accidents in the future. Knowledge of past accidents serves as important input to risk assessment with respect to hazard identification, consequence evaluations, decision support, and identification of high risk areas.

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has collected accident data and provided the offshore industry with statistical material since 1975. The data sources included, go back to 1970 and the 30-year experience of world wide offshore accident history is today systemised and stored in DNV’s Worldwide Offshore Accident Databank, Woad. It is continuously being updated with the latest information available from authorities, official publications and reports, newspapers, databases, rig owners, and operators globally.

Woad data may be accessed through purchase of data search consultancy or a database subscription.

Benefits
Woad provides an effortless way to access data with powerful, easy-to-use filtering, one-click reporting and export to Microsoft® Word and Excel. The database includes information such as:

• Information of over four thousand accidents and incidents from 1970 to date.
• Technical information about approximately 3000 offshore units including mobile drilling unit’s location and operation mode at any time.
• Data on a number of parameters such as name, type and operation mode of the unit involved in the accident, date, geographical location, chain of events, causes and consequences, and evacuation details.