Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The safety case for a facility must contain a description of the facility that gives details of:
(a) the layout of the facility; and
(b) the technical and other control measures identified as a result of the formal safety assessment; and
(c) the activities that will, or are likely to, take place at, or in connection with, the facility; and
(d) for a facility that is a pipeline:
(i) the route corridor of the pipeline and the pipeline's interface start and end positions; and
(ii) the compositions of petroleum or greenhouse gas substance that are to be conveyed through the pipeline when it is operating; and
(iii) the safe operating limits for conveying those compositions through the pipeline; and
(e) any other relevant matters.
Formal safety assessment
(2) The safety case for the facility must also contain a detailed description of the formal safety assessment for the facility, being an assessment, or series of assessments, conducted by the operator that:
(a) identifies all hazards having the potential to cause a major accident event; and
(b) is a detailed and systematic assessment of the risk associated with each of those hazards, including the likelihood and consequences of each potential major accident event; and
(c) identifies the technical and other control measures that are necessary to reduce that risk to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable.
Note: A formal safety assessment relates only to major accident events.
Safety management system
(3) The safety case for the facility must also contain a detailed description of the safety management system that:
(a) is comprehensive and integrated; and
(b) provides for all activities that will, or are likely to, take place at, or in connection with, the facility; and
(c) provides for the continual and systematic identification of hazards to health and safety of persons at or near the facility; and
(d) provides for the continual and systematic assessment of:
(i) the likelihood of the occurrence, during normal or emergency situations, of injury or occupational illness associated with those hazards; and
(ii) the likely nature of such injury or occupational illness; and
(e) provides for the reduction to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable of risks to health and safety of persons at or near the facility including, but not limited to:
(i) risks arising during evacuation, escape and rescue in case of emergency; and
(ii) risks arising from equipment and hardware; and
(f) provides for inspection, testing and maintenance of the equipment and hardware that are the physical control measures for those risks; and
(g) provides for adequate communications between the facility and any relevant:
(i) facility; or
(ii) vessel; or
(iii) aircraft; or
(iv) on - shore installation; and
(h) provides for any other matter that is necessary to ensure that the safety management system meets the requirements and objects of these Regulations; and
(i) specifies the performance standards that apply.
Note: The safety management system must provide for all hazards and risks to persons at the facility, not just risks of major accident events.
Safety case for construction or installation stage
(4) If an operator of a facility submits to NOPSEMA a safety case for a construction or installation stage in the life of the facility, the safety case must contain the matters mentioned in subregulations (1), (2) and (3) in relation to:
(a) the facility at that stage in the life of the facility; and
(b) the activities that will, or are likely to, take place at, or in connection with, the facility during that stage in the life of the facility; and
(c) to the extent that it is practicable--the facility and the activities that will, or are likely to, take place when the facility is in operation.