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National Programmes

NOPSA will put in place a suite of key programmes which will be run on a national basis, to focus industry attention in relation to key health and safety issues.

These programmes will be integrated into NOPSA's activities, and facilitate comparison with international occupational health and safety practice.

Facility Integrity

The NOPSA Facility Integrity National Programme focuses on prevention of loss of containment of process petroleum fluids that may arise from failure of offshore topside process equipment, piping, systems and topside structures of production and storage facilities.

An indicative plan for the Facility Integrity National Programme has been prepared in the form of a presentation.

The NOPSA Facility Integrity National Programme is an initiative aimed to reduce the number of uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases. As a joint initiative with APPEA and to ensure a consistent approach in reporting uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases, some operators of hydrocarbon producing facilities will be requested to report uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases in a standardised format using the Uncontrolled Hydrocarbon Release Report form. This will enable NOPSA to regularly assess and identify trends and to report back to the industry in a generic and manner.

At this stage, this initiative is not applicable to all operators of facilities. Individual letters for this request will be sent out to the relevant operators for this reporting. NOPSA is also seeking historical uncontrolled hydrocarbon release data and will request relevant operators to complete as many details as possible in a History of Uncontrolled Hydrocarbon Release form for each uncontrolled hydrocarbon release.

Prompt sheets have been developed to be used for onshore interviews and offshore inspections by NOPSA OHS inspectors. The prompt sheet topics are:

These prompt sheets may also be useful to industry in their development of systems to manage facility integrity.

The findings from reported incidents between January 2005 and March 2008 have been summarised in a presentation.

The findings from planned inspections between January 2005 and March 2008 have been summarised in another presentation.

Lifting Operations

A report on lifting operations by the International Regulators Forum has identified some widespread problems which are the subject of a key programme conducted by NOPSA. A series of prompt sheets are being used by NOPSA during planned inspections, and are provided here for operators who wish to use them:

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