REGULATIONS RELATING TO MANAGEMENT IN THE
PETROLEUM ACTIVITIES
(THE MANAGEMENT
REGULATIONS)
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway
Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT)
Norwegian Social and Health Directorate (NSHD)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS
Section 3 Management of health, environment and safety
Section 4 Objectives and strategies
Section 5 Internal requirements
Section 6 Acceptance criteria for major accident risk
and environmental risk
Section 7 Monitoring parameters and indicators
Section 8 Basis and criteria for decision
CHAPTER III RESOURCES AND PROCESSES
Section 11 Manning and competence
Section 13 General requirements to analyses
Section14 Analysis of major accident risk
Section 15 Quantitative risk analyses and emergency
preparedness analyses
Section 16 Environmentally oriented risk and emergency
preparedness analyses
Section 17 Analysis of the working environment
CHAPTER V MEASURING, FOLLOW-UP AND IMPROVEMENT
Section 18 Collection, processing and use of data
Section 19 Registration, examination and investigation
of situations of hazard and accident
Section 20 Handling of non-conformities
Regulations relating to management in the
petroleum activities (the management regulations). Issued by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
3 September 2001 pursuant to Act 29 November 1996 No. 72 relating to petroleum
activities Section 10-18, Act 4 February 1977 No. 4 relating to worker
protection and working environment etc., Section 2 subsection 3 first to fourth
paragrahps inclusive and Section 16 a, and Regulations 31 August 2001 relating
to health, environment and safety in the petroleum activities, Section 57 first paragraph litera a. Issued by the
Norwegian Pollution Control Authority 3 September 2001 pursuant to Act 13 March
1981 No. 6 relating to protection against pollution and relating to waste,
Sections 9, 40 and 52 litera b, Act 11 June 1976 no 79 relating to the control
of products and consumer services, Section 8
last paragraph and Regulations 31 August 2001 relating to health, environment
and safety in the petroleum activities, Section 57 first
paragraph litera a. Issued by the
Norwegian Board of Health 3 September 2001 pursuant to Act 2 July 1999 No. 64
relating to health personnel, Section 16
second paragraph and Section 76 last
paragraph, Act 5 August 1994 No. 55 relating to control of communicable
diseases Section 1-2 third paragraph and Section 8-4, and Regulations 31 August
2001 relating to health, environment and safety in the petroleum activities, Section 57 first paragraph litera a. Amended 16
December 2002. Last amended 21 December 2004.
CHAPTER I
RISK MANAGEMENT
Section 1
Risk reduction
In
risk reduction as mentioned in the Framework Regulations Section 9 on
principles relating to risk reduction, the party responsible shall choose
technical, operational and organisational solutions which reduce the
probability that failures and situations of hazard and accident will occur.
In addition barriers shall be established
which
a) reduce the probability that any such failures
and situations of hazard and accident will
develop further,
b) limit possible harm and nuisance.
Where more than one barrier is required,
there shall be sufficient independence between the barriers.
The solutions and the barriers that have the
greatest risk reducing effect shall be chosen based on an individual as well as
an overall evaluation. Collective protective measures shall be preferred over
protective measures aimed at individuals.
Guidelines Interpretations
Section 2
Barriers
The
operator or the one responsible for the operation of a facility, shall
stipulate the strategies and principles on which the design, use and
maintenance of barriers shall be based, so that the barrier function is ensured
throughout the life time of the facility.
It shall be known what barriers have been
established and which function they are intended to fulfil, cf. Section 1 on risk reduction,
second paragraph, and what performance requirements have been defined in
respect of the technical, operational or organisational elements which are
necessary for the individual barrier to be effective.
It shall be known which barriers are not
functioning or have been impaired.
The party responsible shall take necessary
actions to correct or compensate for missing or impaired barriers.
CHAPTER II
MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS
Section 3
Management of health, environment and safety
The party
responsible shall ensure that the management of health, environment and safety
comprises the activities, resources, processes and the organisation necessary
to ensure prudent activities and continual improvement, cf. Section 13 of the Framework
Regulations on the duty to establish, follow
up and further develop a
management system.
Responsibility and authority shall be
unambiguously defined at all times.
The necessary steering documents shall be
prepared, and the necessary reporting lines shall be established.
Section 4
Objectives and strategies
The
party responsible shall stipulate and further develop objectives and strategies
in order to improve health, environment and safety.
The operator shall ensure that there is
accordance between short term and long term objectives within different areas,
at different levels and between different participants in the petroleum
activities.
The objectives shall be expressed in such
way as to make it possible to assess to what degree objectives have been achieved.
Section 5
Internal requirements
The
party responsible shall set internal requirements which put the regulatory
requirements in concrete terms, and which contribute to achieving the
objectives in relation to health, environment and safety, cf. Section 4 on objectives and
strategies. If the internal requirements are expressed functionally, criteria
of fulfilment shall be established.
The operator shall ensure that there is
accordance between his own requirements, as well as between own requirements
and the requirements of other participants.
Section 6
Acceptance criteria for major accident risk and environmental risk
The
operator shall set acceptance criteria for major accident risk and
environmental risk.
Acceptance criteria shall be set for
a) the
personnel on the facility as a whole, and for groups of personnel which are
particularly risk exposed,
b) the
loss of main safety functions as mentioned in the Facilities Regulations
Section 6 on main safety functions,
c)
pollution from the facility,
d) damage done to third party.
The acceptance criteria shall be used in
assessing results from the quantitative risk analyses, cf. Section 14 on analysis of major
accident risk, Section 15 on quantitative risk analyses and emergency preparedness analyses and Section 16 on
environmentally oriented risk and emergency preparedness analyses. Cf. also the
Framework Regulations
Section 9 on principles relating to risk reduction.
Section 7
Monitoring parameters and indicators
The
party responsible shall establish monitoring parameters within his areas of
activity in order to monitor matters of significance to health, environment and
safety, including the degree of achieving objectives, cf. Section 4 on objectives and strategies and Section 5 on internal
requirements.
The operator or the one responsible for the
operation of a facility, shall establish indicators to monitor changes and
trends in major accident risk.
Section 8
Basis and criteria for decision
Prior
to decisions being made, the party responsible shall ensure that issues
relating to health, environment and safety have been comprehensively and
adequately considered.
The decision criteria shall be based on the
stipulated objectives, strategies and requirements relating to health,
environment and safety and shall be available prior to decisions being made.
Necessary co-ordination of decisions shall
be ensured at the various levels and in the various areas in order to avoid
unintentional effects.
Prerequisites that form the basis for a
decision, shall be expressed so that they can be followed up.
CHAPTER III
RESOURCES AND PROCESSES
Section 9
Planning
The
party responsible shall plan the activities in the petroleum activities in
accordance with the stipulated objectives, strategies and requirements so that
the plans give due consideration to health, environment and safety.
The resources required to carry out the
planned activities shall be placed at the disposal of project and operational
organisations.
The operator or the one responsible for the
operation of a facility shall ensure that plans that are of significance to
health, environment and safety are co-ordinated, cf. Section 8 on basis and criteria
for decision.
Section 10
Work processes
The
party responsible shall ensure that the work processes and the products thereof
fulfil the requirements relating to health, environment and safety.
Work processes of significance to health,
environment and safety and interfaces between these shall be described. The
level of detail in the description shall be adapted to the significance of the
processes in relation to health, environment and safety.
Section 11
Manning and competence
The
party responsible shall ensure adequate manning and competence in all phases of
the petroleum activities, cf. the Framework Regulations Section 10 on
organisation and competence.
There shall be set minimum requirements to
manning and competence in respect of functions
a) where
mistakes may have serious consequences in relation to health, environment and
safety,
b) which
shall reduce the probability of failures and situations of hazard and accident
developing further, cf. Section 1 on risk reduction and Section
10 on work processes.
In the manning of the various
work tasks it shall be ensured that the personnel is not assigned tasks that
are incompatible with each other.
The
prerequisites that form the basis for the defined manning and competence, shall
be followed up.
When changes in manning take place, possible
consequences for health, environment and safety shall be reviewed.
Guidelines Interpretations
Section 12
Information
The
party responsible shall identify the information which is necessary to enable
planning and conduct of the petroleum activities and to improve health,
environment and safety.
It shall be ensured that the necessary
information is acquired, processed and disseminated to relevant users at the
right time.
Information and communication systems which
satisfy the need for acquisition, processing and dissemination of data and
information, shall be established.
CHAPTER IV
ANALYSES
Section 13
General requirements to analyses
The
party responsible shall ensure that analyses are carried out, which provide the
necessary decision basis in order to give due consideration to health,
environment and safety. When carrying out and updating the analyses, recognised
models, methods and techniques and the best available data shall be used.
The purpose of the individual analysis
shall be made clear, together with the conditions, assumptions and
delimitations on which the analyses are based.
The individual analysis shall be presented
so that the target groups get a complete and comprehensive presentation of the
results.
Analyses shall be updated when alterations
in the conditions, assumptions and delimitations individually or as a whole
affect the results of the analyses, or when other new knowledge of significance
to the results of the analyses exists. Criteria shall be set for updating of
analyses.
The operator or the one responsible for the
operation of a facility, shall have a complete record of the analyses that are
carried out. Necessary consistency between analyses that are supplementary to
or are based on each other, shall be ensured.
Section14
Analysis of major accident risk
Quantitative
risk analyses and other necessary analyses shall be carried out to identify
contributors to major accident risk,including showing
a) the
risk connected with planned drilling and well activities, and show which effect
these activities have on the total risk on the facility,
b) the
effect of modifications and the carrying out of modifications on the total
risk,
c) the
risk connected with transportation of personnel between the continental shelf
and shore and between facilities.
The analyses shall in addition be used to
set conditions for operation and to classify areas, systems and equipment with
respect to risk.
Section 15
Quantitative risk analyses and emergency preparedness analyses
Quantitative risk analyses which provide a
balanced and as comprehensive picture as possible of the risk shall be carried
out. The risk analyses shall
a) identify
situations of hazard and accident, select initiating incidents and map the
causes of the incidents,
b) carry out modelling of accident sequences and
consequences so that, among other things, possible dependencies between
physical barriers can be revealed, and so that the requirements that must be
set in respect of the performance of the barriers, can be calculated,
c) classify important safety systems,
d) show that the main safety functions are
adequately provided for,
e) identify dimensioning accidental loads,
f) provide the basis for selecting the defined
situations of hazard and accident.
Necessary
sensitivity calculations and evaluations of uncertainties shall be carried out.
Emergency
preparedness analyses shall be carried out which shall
a) define
situations of hazard and accident,
b) set performance requirements to the emergency
preparedness,
c) select and dimension emergency
preparedness measures.
Section 16
Environmentally oriented risk and emergency preparedness analyses
Environmentally oriented risk analyses shall be
carried out in respect of the individual facility. The analyses shall, inter alia,
be carried out for acute pollution and for background load. It shall be
possible to compare similar types of environmental risk contributions from
various facilities unambiguously.
Environmentally
oriented emergency preparedness analyses shall be carried out in respect of the
facility. Prior to the carrying out of the emergency preparedness analyses, the
operator shall set objectives for protection of prioritised vulnerable resources.
The analyses shall comprise the categories near to source, open sea, coast and
shore zone and ensure that differences in vulnerability in different
geographical areas are accounted for.
Results
from characterisation of oil and chemicals and actual efficiency figures for
emergency preparedness material shall be part of the analysis basis. Before the
analysis is carried out, various equipment alternatives and their availability
shall be looked into, cf. the Facilities Regulations Section 41 on
material for action against acute pollution.
Section 17
Analysis of the working environment
Necessary analyses which will ensure a sound
working environment and provide decision support in the choice of
technical, operational and organisational solutions, shall be carried out. The
analyses shall, inter alia, contribute to improving the health, well being and
security of the employees, and to preventing personal injury, deaths and work
related disease as a result of
a) mistakes
that may lead to situations of hazard and accident,
b) exposure
and physical or mental strain.
CHAPTER V
MEASURING, FOLLOW-UP AND IMPROVEMENT
Section 18
Collection, processing and use of data
The party responsible shall ensure that data
are collected, processed and used to
a) monitor
and control technical, operational and organisational aspects,
b) produce
monitoring parameters, indicators and statistics,
c) carry
out and follow up analyses during various phases of the activities,
d) generate
generic data bases,
e) take
corrective and preventive actions, including improvement of systems and
equipment.
Requirements shall be set with regard to the
quality and the validity of the data, based on the relevant user needs.
Section 19
Registration, examination and investigation of situations of hazard and
accident
The party
responsible shall ensure that situations of hazard
and accident that have occurred and that may lead to or has led to
injury, harm or pollution, are recorded and examined in order to prevent
recurrence.
Situations frequently recurring or
representing severe actual or potential consequences, shall be examined closely
through investigation.
Criteria shall be set as to which
situations are to be recorded, examined and investigated, and requirements
shall be set with regard to extent and organisation.
The operator shall keep a complete
record of situations of hazard and accident
that have occurred.
Section 20
Handling of non-conformities
The party responsible shall record and follow
up non-conformities to the requirements relating to health, environment and
safety legislation, including non-conformities to internal requirements that
are of significance to fulfilling the requirements contained in the health,
environment and safety legislation. To what extent the non-conformities are of
significance to health, environment and safety, individually and in relation to
other non-conformities, shall be considered and determined.
Non-conformities
shall be corrected, their causes shall be established and corrective actions
shall be taken to prevent recurrence of the non-conformity. The actions shall
be followed up and their effect shall be evaluated.
Until
non-conformities have been corrected, necessary compensating actions shall be
taken in order to maintain a fully satisfactory level of health, environment
and safety.
Necessary
preventive actions shall be taken to avoid other potential non-conformities.
The
party responsible shall keep a record of the status of non-conformities in his
own activities. The operator or the one responsible for the operation of a facility, shall keep a complete
record.
Section 21
Follow-up
The party responsible shall follow up to see that all elements of his own and of other participants’ management system are established and functioning as intended, and that a fully satisfactory level of health, environment and safety exists.
This
follow-up shall contribute to identifying technical, operational or
organisational weaknesses, failures and deficiencies.
Methods,
frequency and extent of the follow-up, and the degree of independence in
conducting it, shall be adapted to the significance of the element to health,
environment and safety.
Section 22
Improvement
The party responsible shall continually improve
health, environment and safety by identifying the processes, activities and
products that need improvement, and implement necessary improvement measures.
The measures shall be followed up and their effect shall be evaluated.
The
individual person shall be stimulated to take active part in identifying
weaknesses and suggest solutions, cf. the Framework Regulations
Section 11 on sound health, environment and safety
culture.
Provision
shall be made for using knowledge gained through experience from own activities
as well as the activities of others in the improvement efforts.
CHAPTER VI
ENTRY INTO FORCE
These regulations enter into force 1 January
2002.
