Competent authorities should establish arrangements to ensure that new major hazard installations are appropriately separated from people living or working nearby. These arrangements should take full account of both the relative likelihood of a major accident and its consequences, allowing for any special local factor. Additionally, they should seek to ensure that these arrangements prevent […]
General information 9.1.1. Competent authorities should make arrangements to provide information to the public living or working near a major hazard installation. These arrangements should require that works management make available such information in co-operation with the local authority for all existing installations, and for new installations before they start to operate. 9.1.2. This information […]
General 8.1.1. Emergency planning should be regarded by competent authorities, local authorities and works managements as an essential element of any major hazard control system. 8.1.2. Emergency plans for major hazard installations should cover the handling of emergencies both on site and off site. 8.1.3. Works managements should ensure that the necessary standards appropriate to […]
General 7.1.1. The safe operation of a major hazard installation should be the responsibility of works management. 7.1.2. Works management should ensure that the major hazard installation is always operated within the limits of intended design. 7.1.3. Works management should take account of all hazards identified in the hazard analysis together with possible technical and […]
General 6.1.1. The primary responsibility for the control of the causes of major industrial accidents should lie with works management. 6.1.2. A hazard analysis should lead to the identification of a number of potential hardware and software failures and human errors in and around the installation, which need to be controlled by works management. 6.1.3. […]
General 5.1.1. Hazard analysis should be carried out primarily be works management, but the same technique may also be applied to the evaluation of safety systems by the competent authorities. 5.1.2. To analyse the safety of a major hazard installation as well as its potential hazards, a hazard analysis should be carried out covering the […]
General 4.1.1. The prerequisites for the operation of a major hazard control system are: manpower, within industry as well as within the competent authorities, including external expertise if necessary; equipment; information sources. Manpower requirements General 4.2.1.1. Works management should ensure that it has an adequate number of workers available with sufficient expertise before operating a […]
Duties of competent authorities General 3.1.1.1. Competent authorities should define appropriate safety objectives, together with a major hazard control system for their implementation. 3.1.1.2. Although the control of major hazards is primarily the responsibility of the works management operating a major hazard installation, this major hazard control system should be set up by the competent […]
2.1. Definition and identification of major hazard installations 2.1.1. Competent authorities should make arrangements for both existing and proposed new major hazard installations to be clearly defined and identified by a list of hazardous substances or categories of substances and associated threshold quantities, which should include: very toxic chemicals such as: methyl isocyanate; phosgene; toxic […]
Objective The objective of this code of practice is to provide guidance in the setting up of an administrative, legal and technical system for the control of major hazard installations. It seeks to protect workers, the public and the environment by: Preventing major accidents from occurring at these installation; Minimising the consequences of a major […]