North East Of Scotland Branch Meeting HSE – Regulator Update M Bilio HM Principal Specialist Inspector 10 Jan 2018
Averting Catastrophe – Major Accident Hazard Management
The UK offshore oil and gas industry consists of 107 oil and gas plus 181 gas producing installations, located on 383 producing fields. There is a supporting infrastructure of 14,000 km of pipelines connecting installations to beach terminals. Industry commissioned many of these assets in the early 1970s and some are now forecast to continue operating to 2030 and beyond.
OTI 95 633: Implementation of Lord Cullen’s Research and Development Recommendations
This Work Continues Today with HSE collaborating with stakeholders
Maintaining Specialist Competencies Fire, Explosion and Risk Assessment Topic Areas • Initial candidate selection criteria (for interview) and a capability review that outlines specific to role requirements for FERA. • These are both supplemented with our five year science plan as this, and the role of research topic Technical Lead, underpins competence development within the team. • The plan describes our competence areas, the technical competence to lead such issues does require such specialists to be at the forefront in their topic areas. • Each discipline specialist is enabled to collaborate with stakeholders to promote research, produce guidance, influence national and international standards and disseminate knowledge through the “Identify, Codify and Devolve Process “
https://www.hsl.gov.uk/ http://www.fabig.com/ http://ukelg.ps.ic.ac.uk/ http://pfpnet.com/ http://www.gasg.info/ http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/hid_circs/technical_osd/spc_t ech_osd_30/ www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/sheet32006.pdf http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/strategy/index.htm
ALARP demonstration Step 1. – Hazard identification Step 2. - Vulnerability criteria Step 3. –Consequence analysis Step 4. – Frequency estimation Step 5 – Risk assessment Step 6 - Review, decide & document
ALARP is not just IRPA it includes identification ALL potential RRM’s and evaluation of their application • To identify and consider a range of potential measures for further risk reduction, • Systematically analysis of these measures to give a view on the safety benefit • Decide which are reasonably practicable and explain why others are not, • show all reasonably practicable measures are implemented
Hierarchy for risk reduction
Prevention of Fire, Explosion and Emergency Response Regulations (PFEER)1995 : Regulation 5 (2) • Identify MAH events • Evaluate consequences & likelihood • Establish performance standards for EER and protection from F&E • Select appropriate measures
Inspection: MAH Control - Theory in to Practice
Uncertainty
Uncertainty Management • Should be Recognised & Addressed • Biased towards Health & Safety • Measured Against Inherent Safety • Demonstrated as a Cautious Best Estimate Approach
Questions?
FABIG http://www.fabig.com/ # .
UKELG http://ukelg.ps.ic.ac.uk/
PFPNet http://pfpnet.com/
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