PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 675 Content requirements for safety management systems

PETROLEUM AND GAS (PRODUCTION AND SAFETY) ACT 2004 - SECT 675

675 Content requirements for safety management systems

(1) A safety management system for an operating plant must include details of each of the following to the extent they are appropriate for the plant—

(a) a description of the plant, its location and operations;

(b) organisational safety policies;

(c) organisational structure and safety responsibilities;

(ca) for an operating plant, other than a coal mining–CSG operating plant—the operator of the plant;

(cb) for each site mentioned in paragraph (ca) —the site safety manager;

(d) each site at the plant for which a site safety manager is required;

(e) a formal safety assessment consisting of the systematic assessment of risk and a description of the technical and other measures undertaken, or to be undertaken, to control the identified risk;

(f) if there is proposed, or there is likely to be, interaction with other operating plant or contractors in the same vicinity, or if there are multiple operating plant with different operators on the same petroleum tenure, geothermal tenure or GHG authority—

(i) a description of the proposed or likely interactions, and how they will be managed; and

(ii) an identification of the specific risks that may arise as a result of the proposed or likely interactions, and how the risks will be controlled; and

(iii) an identification of the safety responsibilities of each operator;

(g) a skills assessment identifying the minimum skills, knowledge, competencies and experience requirements for each person to carry out specific work;

(h) a training and supervision program containing the mechanism for imparting the skills, knowledge, competencies and experience identified in paragraph (g) and assessing new skills, monitoring performance and ensuring ongoing retention of skill levels;

(i) safety standards and standard operating and maintenance procedures applied, or to be applied, in each stage of the plant;

(j) control systems, including, for example, alarm systems, temperature and pressure control systems, and emergency shutdown systems;

(k) machinery and equipment relating to, or that may affect, the safety of the plant;

(l) emergency equipment, preparedness and procedures;

(m) communication systems including, for example, emergency communication systems;

(ma) a process for managing change including a process for managing any changes to plant, operating procedures, organisational structure, personnel and the safety management system;

(n) the mechanisms for implementing, monitoring and reviewing and auditing safety policies and safety management systems;

(p) key performance indicators to be used to monitor compliance with the system and this Act;

(q) mechanisms for—

(i) recording, investigating and reviewing incidents at the plant; and

(ii) implementing recommendations from an investigation or review of an incident at the plant;

(r) record management, including, for example, all relevant approvals, certificates of compliance and other documents required under this Act;

(s) to the extent that, because of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 , schedule 1 , part 2 , division 1 , that Act does not apply to a place or installation at the plant, details, including codes and standards adopted, addressing all relevant requirements under that Act that would, other than for that section, apply;

(t) if the operating plant is a major hazard facility under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 —each matter not mentioned in paragraphs (b) to (r) that is mentioned in schedule 16 , 17 or 18 of that regulation;

(u) another matter prescribed under a regulation.

(2) However, details, or full details, of a matter mentioned in subsection (1) need not be included in the system if—

(a) because of the nature, size or type of the operating plant, it is inappropriate to include the details; and

(b) the system—

(i) complies with each relevant safety requirement or, if there is no relevant safety requirement for the matter, other accepted industry practices for the matter; and

(ii) states why it is inappropriate to include the details.

(3) If the description of operating plant includes a description of pipeline that transports produced water, the description must identify—

(a) which, if any, pipelines transport produced water together with petroleum; and

(b) a distinguishable part of the pipeline from which the pipeline would be free from petroleum.

Example for paragraph (b)—

isolation valve or an inlet to a water treatment plant

(4) A formal safety assessment under subsection (1) (e) , must, as far as practicable, state ways to control risks associated with the operating plant to an acceptable level by—

(a) eliminating or minimising hazards at the plant; and

(b) implementing measures to minimise the likelihood, and limit the consequences, of significant incidents at the plant.

(5) In this section—


"distinguishable part" , of a pipeline, does not include a mere length of pipe.