South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations49—Safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management plans
(1) A person to whom
this Division applies who is exempted from the requirement to hold a licence
must, if so required by the Technical Regulator by notice in writing—
(a)
prepare, maintain and periodically revise a safety, reliability, maintenance
and technical management plan dealing with matters prescribed by
subregulation (2);
(b)
obtain the approval of the Technical Regulator to the plan and any revision;
(c)
comply with the plan as approved from time to time;
(d)
audit from time to time the person's compliance with the plan and report the
results of those audits to the Technical Regulator.
(2) For the purposes
of section 26(1)(b) of the Act, the following are matters that must be
dealt with by a safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management
plan:
(a) the
safe design, installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance and
decommissioning of gas infrastructure owned or operated by the person;
(b) the
maintenance of a supply of gas of the quality required to be maintained by or
under the Act, these regulations, the person's licence or the conditions of
any exemption granted to the person;
(c)
ensuring adequacy of the distribution system at all times of high demand on
the system;
(d)
ensuring that gas supply is suitable for each gas installation situated in a
place that will be connected or reconnected to the distribution system;
(e)
ensuring that an appropriate level of examination and testing of installations
(including appliances) is carried out on the new connection of gas supply to a
place to provide assurance of the safety of gas installations;
(f)
ensuring compliance with code provisions under the Essential Services
Commission Act 2002 relating to metering of gas supply at delivery
points;
(g)
monitoring compliance with code provisions under the Essential Services
Commission Act 2002 relating to metering of gas supply at delivery
points;
(h) the
implementation and conduct of safety measures and training programs for the
purpose of—
(i)
reducing the risk of death or injury, or damage to
property, arising out of the operation of gas infrastructure owned or operated
by the person;
(ii)
ensuring that employees performing work in respect of gas
infrastructure owned or operated by the person are competent and properly
trained, perform their work safely and are provided with a safe system of
work;
(i)
ensuring that contractors performing work in respect of
gas infrastructure owned or operated by the person have processes and
procedures for ensuring that the persons personally performing the work are
competent and properly trained, perform their work safely and are provided
with a safe system of work;
(j) the
manner in which accidents and unsafe situations are to be dealt with, reported
and investigated;
(k)
monitoring compliance with safety and technical requirements imposed by or
under the Act, these regulations, the person's licence or the conditions of
any exemption granted to the person;
(l)
monitoring gas infrastructure owned or operated by the person for the purposes
of identifying infrastructure that is unsafe or at risk of failing or
malfunctioning;
(m) the
establishment of indicators and the collection and recording of information to
measure the person's performance in respect of matters referred to in the
preceding paragraphs.
(3) A person to whom
this Division applies must, at the request of the Technical Regulator, provide
the Technical Regulator with such information and access to such officers,
employees and contractors as the Technical Regulator reasonably requires for
the purposes of determining whether a safety, reliability, maintenance and
technical management plan prepared by the person is operating effectively and
whether that person is complying with the plan.