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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - SCHEDULE 17

Schedule 17—Additional matters to be included in major hazard facility safety case

Regulation 385

A     Facility description

        1     The facility

    1.1     A description of the main activities and products of the major hazard facility, particularly those activities associated with Schedule 14 materials.

    1.2     A description of the Schedule 14 materials and any dangerous goods present or likely to be present at the facility, including the following—

        (a)     identification of materials or goods by name and by any other means necessary for a clear identification;

        (b)     the quantity or range of quantities of materials or goods present or likely to be present at the major hazard facility;

        (c)     the physical, chemical and toxicological characteristics, and any other hazardous characteristics, both immediate and delayed, of the materials or goods;

        (d)     the physical and chemical behaviour under normal conditions of use or under foreseeable abnormal conditions of the materials or goods.

    1.3     A description of the chemical and physical processes associated with any Schedule 14 materials, including—

        (a)     the main units of process equipment used in those processes; and

        (b)     a process flow drawing, or set of flow drawings, describing the processes.

    1.4     A drawing of the major hazard facility's general layout, containing the location of the following—

        (a)     the main process units;

        (b)     the main storage areas;

        (c)     major incident hazards and major incident initiators.

    1.5     In relation to proposed changes at the major hazard facility, for which no new risk control measures are adopted—

        (a)     a description of any proposed changes to the major hazard facility that would—

              (i)     alter the production capacity or profile of the major hazard facility; or

              (ii)     involve the deletion, addition or modification of any processes; and

        (b)     a statement as to how existing risk control measures and safety management systems are capable of maintaining the safe operation of the major hazard facility.

        2     The surrounding area

    2.1     A plan to scale of the facility and its surrounding area showing the following—

        (a)     the location of the facility within the surrounding area;

        (b)     topographical information;

        (c)     surrounding land uses;

        (d)     the location of any identified external threats (including other major hazard facilities or other facilities that could affect the safety of the major hazard facility).

    2.2     Demographic information for the local community, including surrounding land uses permitted by the local planning authority.

    2.3     Meteorological and seismic data relevant to the estimation of the effects of any major incident.

    2.4     For a facility located in Victorian coastal waters or any sea within the limits of Victoria, a nautical chart of the area surrounding the facility.

B     Safety information

        3     Major incidents and major incident hazards

A summary of the documentation prepared under regulation 368 including a complete list of major incidents and major incident hazards that could occur at the major hazard facility .

        4     Safety assessment

A summary of the documentation prepared under regulation 369 .

        5     Risk control measures to limit the consequences of major incidents

    5.1     A detailed description of the following—

        (a)     the instrumentation and other equipment installed in the facility and the procedures in place that constitute the risk control measures for preventing or limiting the consequences of major incidents;

        (b)     the critical operating parameters for those risk control measures;

        (c)     key personnel and resources (internal and external) available to intervene in the event of any failure of a control measure, whether or not that failure results in a major incident;

        (d)     the emergency plan, including specific information about how these plans can be expected to limit the consequences of a major incident;

        (e)     the means of ensuring that there is at all times in place a command structure for the major hazard facility that applies in the event of an emergency, and that this command structure has been communicated throughout the major hazard facility.

    5.2     In clause 5.1—

"critical operating parameters" means the upper or lower performance limits of any equipment, process or procedure, compliance with which is necessary to avoid a major incident;

"failure of a control measure" means—

        (a)     if the risk control measure is a positive action or event, the non-occurrence or the defective occurrence of that action or event; or

        (b)     if the risk control measure consists of a limitation on an operational activity, process or procedure, the breach of that limitation.

        6     Performance monitoring

A detailed description of the performance standards and performance indicators required by clause 7 of Schedule 15 to be included in the documented safety management system.

        7     Safety management system

    7.1     A summary of the content of the safety management system.

    7.2     At all points in the safety case where the matter addressed is covered by the safety management system, a clear reference to the relevant part of the documented safety management system.

    7.3     A description of those parts of the documented safety management system that address the maintenance of the safety management system (that is, its ongoing effective implementation and its ongoing improvement).

        8     Unauthorised persons and control of access

A detailed description of how the operator ensures security of the facility specifically relating to the precautions taken to control unauthorised entry of persons and the means of controlling authorised entry of persons to the facility.

        9     Safety and reliability of plant

A description of the steps taken to ensure that safety and reliability are incorporated into the design and construction of all aspects of the major hazard facility itself, whether the operator is directly engaged in the design and construction or has engaged another person to carry out the design and construction.

        10     Major incident history

A summary of—

        (a)     the major incidents that have occurred at the major hazard facility over the previous 5 years; and

        (b)     the incidents (other than those under paragraph (a)) the operator has been required to notify the Authority of under Part 5 of the Act over the previous 5 years.

Sch. 18 (Heading) amended by S.R. No. 176/2018 reg. 9(1).

Sch. 18 amended by S.R. Nos 176/2018 reg. 9(2)–(4), 112/2021 reg. 15.



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