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Toolbox presentation Changes in petroleum
safety regulation
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Departmental changes
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Department of Mines and Petroleum
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Resources Safety
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Petroleum Safety

• Pipelines - safety case assessment for pipeline
  construction and operation
• Operations - production facilities, exploration
  drilling and geothermal
• Legislation and policy development, technical
  advice, internal divisional liaison

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What we do

• Primary focus - occupational safety and health
• Secondary focus - structural integrity (also
  impacts on Societal Risk and Business Continuity)

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WA petroleum legislation
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Proclamation of the PLARA

• Parts 2 and 3 of the PLARA are attached to the
  PAGERA and PPA respectively but are provisions
  that have not come into operation
• Part 5 consists of consequential amendments to
  other legislation
• The consequential amendment of interest is to
  S4(2) of the OSHA
• The intention is to proclaim Parts 2, 3 and 5 of
  the PLARA, to do this the subsidiary legislation
  needs to be completed

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Regulations to support

• To support the PLARA regulations are being
  drafted
• Petroleum Pipelines (Occupational Safety and
  Health) Regulations 2009
• Petroleum Pipelines (Management of Safety
  Pipeline Operations) Regulations 2009
• Petroleum Pipelines Amendment Regulations 2009
• Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources
  (Occupational Safety and Health) Regulations 2009
• Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources
  (Management of Safety ) Regulations 2009
• To support the regulations guidelines will be
  produced for
• Developing and implementing a pipeline safety
  case
• A SMS approach to exploration drilling /
  production facilities
• A SMS approach to geothermal energy extraction

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Effect of proclamation of the PLARA
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General duty of care

• Duties of care relating to occupational safety
  and health can be found in the PLARA at Part 2
  and Part 3, Schedule 1, Division 2, Subdivision
  1, S7 - S13
• The overall general duty of care provisions are
  quite wide ranging
• They apply to the operator, persons in control
  and employers, the penalties for dereliction are
  significant
• In addition, specific duty of care requirements
  are placed on manufacturers, suppliers,
  constructors and persons engaged in an operation,
  again appropriate penalties apply

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Subject matter of regulations

• Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (OSH)
  Regulations
• Reviewing authority
• Exemption orders
• Elections of safety and health representatives
• Training of safety and health representatives
• Avoiding fatigue
• Possession or control of drugs or intoxicants
• Persons must leave when required
• Prohibition on use of, and limitation on exposure
  to, certain hazardous substances
• Exposure to noise
• Taking of samples for testing
• Form of certain notices
• Service of Schedule 1 notices (INs, PNs, DNDNs
  etc)

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Subject matter of regulations (continued)

• Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources
  (Management of Safety) Regulations
• Duties as to safety management systems
• Contents of safety management systems
• General provisions
• Safety measures
• Emergencies
• Record keeping
• Submission and acceptance of safety management
  systems
• Revision of safety managements systems
• Withdrawal of acceptance of a safety management
  system
• Validation
• Accidents and dangerous occurrences
• Transitional provisions

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The 1991 schedule

• Currently the Schedule of Onshore Petroleum
  Exploration and Production Requirements 1991
  applies
• Once the legislation is proclaimed the
  prescriptive safety requirements will be
  superseded by duty of care obligations and the
  regulations
• Most safety content and reference to standards
  will be moved into comprehensive guidelines and
  placed on the internet
• Some non-safety requirements will remain in the
  schedule
• Previously accepted and current safety manual and
  emergency response manual deemed to satisfy
  during transitional period

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Long term solution

• Development of stand-alone petroleum safety
  legislation
• Advantages in having stand-alone legislation
• Provides clarity and reduce complexity
• Best long term solution and aligns with other OSH
  legislation

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Tentative timeframe for introduction

• Exposure drafts of the regulations should be
  completed by end September 2009
• Public consultation will run end September to end
  October 2009
• Response to comment and final drafts completed by
  end November 2009
• Proclamation before the end of first quarter 2010
• Powers and functions to delegate before the end
  of first quarter 2010
• Transition period commences (currently 2 years)
• Comment sought on practical application during
  2010
• Consideration for amendment if required end 2010