PIPER25: WORKFORCE INVOLVEMENT DAY

Piper Alpha: The challenge for the next generation

Piper Alpha: The challenge for the next generation

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Permits to work

Recommendations 32 – 38 (volume 2)

38. Copies of all issued permits to work should

be displayed at a convenient location and in a

systematic arrangement such that process

operating staff can readily see and check

which equipment is under maintenance and

not available for operation.

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The risk of a prolonged high pressure gas fire

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October 1986 – report by Elmslie Consultancy Services Inc for

Occidental

“These pipelines, especially the gas pipelines, would

take hours to depressurise because of their capacity.

This could result in a high pressure gas fire on the cellar

deck would be virtually impossible to fight and the

protection systems would not be effective in providing

the cooling needed for the duration of the

depressurisation.”

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Safety case

Recommendations 1-13 (volume 2)

4. The safety case should be a demonstration

that so far is reasonably practicable the

exposure of personnel on the platform to

accidental events and their consequences has

been minimised.

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Emergency centres and systems

Recommendations 62 - 70 (volume 2)

64. The regulations and related guidance notes

should promote an approach to emergency

systems:-

(i) Which provides to a high degree the ability

of these systems to survive severe accident

conditions; and

(ii)Which applies to communications systems

the fail-safe principle

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The OIM

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Command in emergencies

Recommendations 97 - 99 (volume 2)

99. There should be a system of emergency

exercises which provides OIMs with practice

in decision-making in emergency situations,

including decisions on evacuation. All OIMs

and their deputies should participate regularly

in such exercises.

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Pipeline emergency procedures

Recommendations 71 - 72 (volume 2)

72. Operators should be required by regulation

to institute and review regularly a procedure

for shutting down production on an installation

in the event of an emergency on another

installation which is connected to the first by a

hydrocarbon pipeline where the emergency is

liable to be exacerbated by continuation of

such production

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Individual Management

Regulator Company

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