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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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