On 4th November 2004 a workshop was held titled ‘Preventing the next major incident.’ Its focus was on the identification and management of incidents with the potential for a large numbers of fatalities to occur. The workshop was attended by over 80 individuals, representing around 50 different E&P organisations, regulators and service providers from around the world. This report summarises some of the key items presented during the workshop, and the feedback from the breakout session at which participants were tasked with identifying the priority issues for the industry (in particular OGP) to address in this area.