Sensitive Area Access

Maintaining logs of all who visit the faciUty during the day, denying visitor access to sensitive areas of the faciUty, providing visitor escorts within the facihty, and guarding experimental, developmental, and prototype work from pubHc view. 

Ideally, the walls should be of brick or concrete with an insulated roof. Large areas of glass should be avoided. It is desirable that all routine maintenance and operating functions can be carried out without having to open doorways. Openings and access to the boilerhouse should be away from sensitive areas. Free areas for air for both combustion and ventilation should be through acoustic louver... 

Examples of procedural access controls include inventorying keys, changing access codes regularly, and requiring security passes to pass gates and access sensitive areas. In addition, facilities should establish the means to readily identify all employees, including contractors and temporary workers with unescorted access to facilities. 

When controlled explosives are used, the most common method is to place carefully measured charges in shallow shot holes a few inches in diameter drilled from a truck-mounted drill. These charges are then detonated to produce the sound waves needed. In less accessible areas, a portable drill may be used and, in certain environmentally sensitive areas, the charges may be mounted on stakes above the ground to minimize plant disturbance. 

Security protection is provided to assure data integrity. Database access is controlled to prevent unauthorized user access (for example, to sensitive areas) and to prevent unauthorized operations (for example, delete a record). 

Other obvious steps are ensuring that gates are locked and well lit, and that outsiders are not permitted on site, or into sensitive areas. I often test security awareness by trying to gain access to control rooms, Sem says. In some cases, until staff have been adequately sensitized and trained, I have been allowed to walk in without question. ... 

Vegetation cutting is sometimes carried out in marshes and other areas where plant life is threatened by oiling, especially by heavy oils. Plants can be saved in this way, although traffic into marshes or other sensitive areas can cause severe damage. It is only used if it can be done without causing damage by access and if it removes oil that could re-contaminate this or other areas. 

An important feature of using these manual sprayers is that it is possible to do selective spot treatments, for example, confining the application of herbicides to patches of weeds. Also, where there is concern about downwind spray drift, placement of the nozzle nearer to the target and using a low pressure can enable treatments closer to a sensitive area. In conjunction with an attractant such as molasses or protein hydrolysate, insecticide bait sprays have been used in discrete spots for fruitfly control. Knapsack sprayers are often used in difficult terrain where access to vehicles is difficult or impossible. However, the lack of water in some situations, and the high requirement for labour, have created a demand for alternative application systems (see below). 

The administration sided with the off-road vehicle industry on air pollution standards, on noise pollution standards, and in giving the vehicles continued access to environmentally sensitive areas in national forests and wilderness areas, ignoring scientific opinions inside and outside government on the damage the vehicles cause, fie also sided with snowmobile manufacturers and industry groups in overruling the National Park Service s scientists and three sepa-... 

Are security personnel trained in sprinkler system operation and cutoff In fire extinguisher use Are computer operating and records rooms, laboratories, and other sensitive areas secured by modem personnel identification systems (card access, hand print, eye retina) ... 

Acoustic baffles are used to reduce the transmission of this noise into sensitive areas, including the upper body structure, where acoustical breakout (noise penetration) through drain and access holes in the body are attenuated only by the acoustical properties of the interior trim components. The variety of potential paths by which sound is propagated throughout the upper body structure requires the baffle package design be evaluated as a system for acoustic and water management. 

Buffer zone. A buffer zone should be set up between a sensitive area, whose access is restricted, and the general area that the majority of plant personnel use. 

Monitor visitors—Do not let visitors inside the secure perimeter without an escort. Vet contractors and support personnel. Restrict access to sensitive areas, such as server rooms or human resources records. Staff should be encouraged to query unescorted strangers in secure areas Get Safe Online, 2011). 

Infrastructure Management involves the pl sical securily measiues that represent the basic bnilding blocks of secniity best-practice. Infrastructure management activities help to form a secure perimeter around an entire facility and to protect sensitive areas within a firm s facilities. It is impoitant to hmit access to vulnerable processes via locks, gates, and ID cards and to monitor these areas with closed circuit television cameras (CCTV). Additionally, background checks should be performed on all employees as well as third party contractors with access to sensitive areas. 

Sensing heads should be located in draft-free areas where possible, as air flowing past the sensors normally increases drift of calibration, shortens head life, and decreases sensitivity. Air deflectors are available from sensor manufacturers and should be utilized in any areas where significant air flow is anticipated (such as air conditioner plenum applicaiion.s). Additionally, sensors should be located, whenever possible, in loca[ion.s which are relatively free from vibration and easily accessed for calibration and maintenance. Obviously, this carmot always be accomplished. It usually is difficult, for example, to locate sensors in the tops of compressor buildings at locations which are accessible and which do not vibrate. 

The rig selection will dictate the basic layout of the pad. Based on the necessary area needed to support its functions, ancillary equipment may be added in space conservative measures. In addition to the placement of various stationary rig site components, other operations such as logging, trucking and subsequent completion operations must be provided for. The most environmentally sensitive design will impact the least amount of area, and in that it will be the most economic. Potential pad sites and access routes should be laid out on a topographic map prior to the actual survey. At this time, construction costs can be estimated and compared. Figure 4484 shows such a layout. The cost of building a location includes the cost of reclamation such as any remediation. 

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