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SECTION II
OPERATING TRAINING MANUAL
PLATFORM SAFETY BEHAVIOUR
Lesson G.3.2.1.a
ABU QIR NA/Q PIII PLATFORM
EPCI ENGINEERING
B01 24/03/2016 ISSUED FOR APPROVAL VTE FMO ACE
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Index
1 INTRODUCTION 4
2 HSE DESIGN CRITERIA 5
2.1 HSE DESIGN APPROACH 5
2.2 ALARP CRITERIA 5
2.3 INHERENT SAFETY 7
3 PLATFORM ORIENTATION AND LAYOUT 8
3.1 LAYOUT 8
3.2 ORIENTATION 9
3.3 SEGREGATION 9
3.4 ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND CONTROL 9
3.5 ACCESS AND EVACUATION 10
3.6 RISERS AND ESD VALVES LOCATION 12
3.7 SAFETY SYSTEMS LOCATION 12
4 VENT SYSTEM 13
5 SAFETY SYSTEM DESIGN 14
5.1 EMERGENCY SHUT-DOWN (ESD) 14
5.2 EMERGENCY LEVELS 16
6 FIRE PROTECTION PHILOSOPHY 18
6.1 HELIDECK FIREFIGHTING SYSTEM 18
6.2 TOTAL SATURATION FIREFIGHTING SYSTEM 19
6.3 WATER / FOAM FIREFIGHTING SYSTEM 19
6.4 CO2 SNUFFING SYSTEM 20
6.5 PASSIVE FIRE PROTECTION 20
6.6 BLAST PROTECTION 21
7 LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES 22
7.1 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) 22
7.2 LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT 22
7.3 PUBLIC ADDRESS / GENERAL ALARM SYSTEM (PA/GA) 23
7.4 NAVIGATION AID SYSTEM 23
7.5 SAFETY SIGNS 24
1 INTRODUCTION
The scope of this Lesson is to provide guidelines and general requirements needed to protect against personal injury, loss of life, damage to the environment and asset losses due to fire, explosion and operational safety hazards, defining the minimum safety measures required for the NA/Q-PIII Platform design.
The plant has been designed to meet the following targets:
• compliance with the International Rules/Standards HSE and Quality Requirements.
• As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) approach.
The HSE design criteria primarily refer to:
• layout philosophy;
• safety system;
• fire / explosion protection;
• personnel protection;
• environmental protection;
• evacuation / escape system.
Objective of this document is to provide the background HSE information required by the project team to assist them in producing a design where the risks to personnel, the environment and the asset are acceptable according to risk acceptability criteria.
The Safety design objectives are intended to:
• minimise the potential of hazardous occurrences;
• minimise the risk and the consequences of accidental events;
• ensure a safe working environment for personnel;
• ensure that adequate means for personnel protection and escape are provided;
• provide sufficient safety devices and redundancy to isolate and minimize uncontrolled releases of flammable and/or toxic process fluids;
• provide adequate fire protection systems to rapidly detect, control and extinguish any reasonably foreseeable fire which could develop during normal operation;
• minimise the potential for pollution of the environment from accidental spills, venting or flaring of hazardous materials;
• produce a facility design having an acceptable associated risk level, in compliance with risk acceptability criteria;
• provide that assessment and subsequent conclusions and decisions will be transparent and auditable.
2 HSE DESIGN CRITERIA
2.1 HSE DESIGN APPROACH
In the Process industry, a distinctive approach to hazards and failures that cause loss of life and property has been developed. This approach is commonly called “Loss Prevention” and it involves putting much greater emphasis on technological measures to control hazards and on trying to get things right first time.
The prime emphasis in loss prevention is on the Management system. The technological systems are particularly demanding in terms of formal management organization, competent persons, system and procedures, standards and code of practice.
A major hazards in NA/Q-PIII Platform are fire, explosion and toxic release.
Thus loss prevention is characterized by:
• a concern with hazards arising from technology;
• a concern with major hazards;
• a concern for integrity of containment.
Some features which are characteristic of loss prevention are:
• technique for hazardous area classification;
• definition of fire & gas detection philosophy and system;
• assessment of hazards and their evaluation against risk criteria;
• technique of reliability engineering;
• definition of fire protection, both active and passive, philosophy and system;
• planning for emergencies;
• incident investigation.
To ensure that all these objectives are met, a Risk Management System is implemented in the design of NA/Q-PIII Platform.
The Risk Management System comprises, but is not limited to, the definition of the HSE Philosophy to be applied in the project and the performance of hazard assessment activities and Risk Analysis.
2.2 ALARP CRITERIA
The principle objective of the project is to ensure an inherently safe design of the Platform facilities, where all risks have been reduced to a level which is ALARP with the following order of priorities:
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