The new OEUK Safe Weight Limit Policy stipulates a maximum clothed weight of 124kg for anyone travelling offshore from 1st November 2026. This applies to our own employees and our clients’ workforces.

Whether or not they’re impacted by the change, diet and lifestyle are important to help individuals achieve and maintain their personal weight goals.

We serve over 3.6 million meals annually in our offshore contracts, providing a variety of offers and service styles in different installations. This means we’re well-positioned to help our customers and colleagues to make healthier choices. We’ve always done this through our menus and wellness messaging, and this has been a natural next step to emphasise the importance for the new regulations.

We provide a food offer that supports a balanced diet alongside educational resources that inform and empower those who want to eat in a particular way, including to lose weight if that is their aim. Our culinary team works in collaboration with our registered nutritionists throughout our menu development and delivery.

It’s important that we continue to provide consumers with a choice so we can cater for individual energy demands and dietary preferences, however we’ve engaged with our clients to identify opportunities to adapt our offers for those affected by the new regulations.

Some of the updates we’ve made in collaboration with individual clients include:

• Altering counter layouts to position vegetables and salads early in the customer journey, encouraging the workforce to maximise these items on their plates.

• Serving salads with dressings and toppings on the side, so they are optional rather than built into dishes as previously.

• Introducing additional pre-packed snacks like nuts and dried fruit to ensure a balanced retail offer.

We already provide a variety of whole grain foods to increase fibre and keep consumers fuller for longer, releasing energy more slowly while supporting digestive and wider health. We’re also reviewing recipes across our business to make single dishes healthier – for example, by introducing more plant-based ingredients which deliver both health and sustainability benefits.

While we can provide access to balanced meal options in the weeks our customers and colleagues spend offshore, we can’t control what individuals choose to eat. As such, our Wellness programme is key – it provides access to a variety of education and awareness collateral that prepares people to make lifestyle changes while at work as well as in their homelives.