New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (SAFETY AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2008 - REG 9

9 Chapter 1 of plan-network safety and reliability

(1) The object of chapter 1 of a network management plan is to ensure that the transmission system or distribution system to which it relates provides an adequate, reliable and safe supply of electricity of appropriate quality.

(2) Chapter 1 of a plan must include (but is not limited to) the following:

(a) a commitment by the network operator to ensuring the safe operation of its transmission or distribution system, and to giving safety the highest priority over all other aspects of network management,

(b) a description of the transmission or distribution system and its design, construction, operation and maintenance,

(c) a description of the planning process employed for the purpose of assessing the adequacy of the transmission or distribution system and the need for development of the transmission or distribution system, including if appropriate:

(i) demand management methodologies, and

(ii) system reliability planning standards on a customer class or group, or geographic basis, for each distinct voltage level,

(d) a description of the asset management strategies employed for the purposes of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the transmission or distribution system, including:

(i) risk management and public liability insurance arrangements, and

(ii) planned customer technical service standards for quality and reliability of supply,

(e) a description of the safety management strategy employed for the purpose of ensuring the safe operation of the transmission or distribution system, including:

(i) an analysis of hazardous events, and

(ii) the procedures to be implemented in the event of an emergency, and

(iii) the procedures and standards designed to ensure that the network operator’s employees, contractors to the network operator and their employees and any other persons working on or near the system’s electricity works have the competencies required to undertake the work safely, and

(iv) a strategy to ensure adherence to safe working procedures,

(f) if the network operator is a distribution network service provider, references to documents outlining the strategies employed to ensure compliance with licence conditions relating to the design, reliability and performance criteria of the distribution network,

(g) a description of the plan’s objectives and of appropriate performance indicators,

(h) a description of the reports to be made to the Director-General in relation to the management and performance of the transmission or distribution system ( "the schedule of reports"),

(i) a description of the codes, standards and guidelines that the network operator intends to follow in the design, installation, operation and maintenance of the transmission or distribution system.

(3) Chapter 1 of a plan must comply with Schedule 1.

(4) The schedule of reports must include such reports in relation to the management and performance of the network operator’s transmission or distribution system as the Director-General, by notice in writing to the network operator, directs to be included.

(5) A network operator must lodge with the Director-General, in accordance with the plan, the reports specified in the schedule of reports.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units (in the case of a corporation) and 25 penalty units (in any other case).