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GAS SAFETY REGULATIONS 2021 - REG 41

Evacuation and escape
(1)  The safety management system for gas infrastructure must contain, or refer to, an evacuation and escape analysis in relation to the gas infrastructure that specifies adequate routes for evacuation and escape in the event of an emergency.
(2)  For the purposes of subregulation (1) , the safety management system, in its evacuation and escape analysis, must specify –
(a) appropriate evacuation and escape analyses, and strategies for the control of evacuation and escape procedures; and
(b) the office the occupant of which is responsible for implementing and supervising procedures in the event of an emergency.
(3)  The safety management system for gas infrastructure must specify, in its evacuation and escape analysis, that the gas infrastructure is to have or contain measures of the following kinds for the evacuation and escape of persons at the gas infrastructure in the event of an emergency:
(a) suitable evacuation and escape routes that are, as far as reasonably practicable, to be kept freely passable at all times;
(b) in respect of any route that is not freely passable, suitable alternative arrangements;
(c) suitable equipment for evacuation and escape;
(d) suitable means of escape for use in the event of an emergency.



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