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Over-Pressure Protection: HSE's Position: Health and Safety Executive

HSE's position is that those creating risks through over-pressure systems have the responsibility to manage them. The document outlines HSE's role in preventing work-related harm and reviews regulations requiring employers to ensure plant and systems are safe, identify hazards, and maintain pressure protection devices. It provides examples of pressure relief failures and emphasizes that such devices are the last line of defense, stressing the importance of proper design, construction, maintenance, and examination or verification schemes.

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Over-Pressure Protection: HSE's Position: Health and Safety Executive

HSE's position is that those creating risks through over-pressure systems have the responsibility to manage them. The document outlines HSE's role in preventing work-related harm and reviews regulations requiring employers to ensure plant and systems are safe, identify hazards, and maintain pressure protection devices. It provides examples of pressure relief failures and emphasizes that such devices are the last line of defense, stressing the importance of proper design, construction, maintenance, and examination or verification schemes.

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Health and Safety

Executive

Over-pressure protection:
HSE’s position
Managing over-pressure protection

HSE’s job is to prevent people being killed,


injured or made ill by work.

“Those who create the risk are best placed


to manage it.”
Managing over-pressure protection

Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974


• ‘the duty of every employer to ensure … the
health, safety and welfare at work of all his
employees’
• ‘the provision and maintenance of plant and
systems of work that are … safe and without
risks to health’
Managing over-pressure protection

Pressure relief devices are the last line of


defence.
• PSV
– inadequate sizing (Grangemouth, 1987)
– recent survey 4% failed to lift
• Bursting disc
– Gas releases through unrevealed
rupture
Managing over-pressure protection

Heat Exch. HP Flare


Drum

gas
seawater
Managing over-pressure protection

Multiple failures observed


pressure
4 barg liquid @+40m
disc failure

tell-tail blocked no level indication


PAH no alarm
above LSH
LSH ESD
Heat Exch. HP Flare does not
Drum trip
seawater
gas ESDV not tight pumps
shut-off
seawater
Managing over-pressure protection

Relevant regulations:
• ‘identify hazards and assess risks’
(Management of Health and Safety at Work Regs,
1999)

• ‘maintained in an efficient state, in efficient


working order and in good repair’
(Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regs, 1998)
Managing over-pressure protection

Offshore regulations:
• ‘prevent the uncontrolled release of flammable
substances’ (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and
Emergency Response Regs, 1995)

• ‘identification of safety critical elements and a


verification scheme’ (Safety Case Regs, 2005)
Managing over-pressure protection

Onshore regulations:
• ‘pressure system… shall be properly designed
and constructed… so as to prevent danger’
(Pressure Systems Safety Regs, 2000)

• ‘a written scheme for periodic examination’


including ‘all protective devices’ (PSSR, 2000)
Managing over-pressure protection

Summary, over-pressure systems:


• responsibility of ‘risk creator’;
• identify hazards & assess risks;
• appropriate design & construction;
• maintain in working order and good repair;
• examination or verification scheme to address
condition.
Health and Safety
Executive

Managing over-pressure
protection: HSE’s view

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