Safe operating procedures items

Final Recommendation Step-by-step safe operating procedures for repairing items involving the Rotary Tables would enable ALL maintenance personnel to perform their tasks more efficiently and consistently. This mechanic spent quite a bit of time in the planning of the task at hand. I m afraid that he is not within the norm. Standard procedures would have enabled him to get right down to the task at hand with minimal delay. 

Other information may also benefit the PHA. Standard operating procedures for processing equipment, safe work practices, maintenance or job safety analyses, emergency response plans could be appropriate review items for some PHAs depending upon the toll. 

Safe systems of work (SSOW) - these are formal written procedures that describe how a process or activity is to be undertaken. The HSWA requires the production of SSOWs and that all employees know them. There is a wide range of terminology used across industry to describe an SSOW. In the construction industry, for example, the term method statement is used, in many production-based organisations the SSOWs are referred to as safe operating or standard operating procedures. Regardless of the terminology used and the way they are recorded, SSOWs tend to include very similar items, such as a description of the work, its sequence, the risks and controls, etc. further details on SSOWs are discussed later in this chapter. 

When neither BIP nor movement of the UXO is possible, a render safe procedure (RSP) is a viable option. Huntsville MCX, however, allows only EOD technicians, not UXO specialists, to perform this operation because needed information on particular RSPs is available only from classified EOD 60 Series publications, to which civilian UXO specialists do not have easy and routine access. The RSP disrupts the UXO s explosive train, which is the series of events that causes an armed UXO to detonate. This procedure is extremely time consuming and possibly hazardous, so it is most efficient to BIP these armed items and transport only those that are safe to move in the condition in which they were found. 

As plants age there is a need for increased maintenance on the process equipment to ensure continued operability. To ensure safe and reliable operation, the maintenance practices used must follow suggested vendor recommendations or be defined internally to address technical and safety considerations. The continued operability of chemical agent stockpile incineration facilities is dependent in part on the effectiveness of the maintenance systems to proactively address obsolescence in their procedures and practices and to modify systems as required to process severely degraded stockpile items. 

Safety, Health, and Environment courses for process technicians deal with items such as personal protective equipment, hazard communication, permit systems, fire extinguishers, hazardous materials and emergency response, following procedures, general safety rules, and equipment and operation hazards. Safety training is designed to keep employees safe and productive, protect the community and environment, and protect equipment and physical facilities. 

Particular operating limits and conditions (OLCs) (Ref. [18], paras 5.8 and 6.9) should be defined for any external event that proves to be important for plant design, in terms of relevance of the hazard, contribution to sizing of safety related items and contribution to the results of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). The OLCs should be associated with dedicated surveillance procedures (pre- and/or post-event), a plant safe state (possibly a reactor shutdown) that is to be reached after such abnormal events and a post-event revalidation procedure for any item important to safety that may have been challenged. 

After the individual equipment items have been tested, a range of tests should be performed to demonstrate the safe interaction of ail equipment and the overall operational capability and capacity of the facility. At this stage, the safety and effectiveness of all instructions and procedures should be demonstrated. This should include demonstration of satisftictory training of operating staff for both normal operation and anticipated operational occurrences. The ability to conduct maintenance work safely and effectively should also be demonstrated. 

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