Health &Safety Assignment
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Health &Safety Assignment
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HEALTH AND SAFETY
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Monitoring the health and safety ................................................................................................1Agreement with the health and safety regulations......................................................................3Employer's Safety........................................................................................................................4Business Case for Decommissioning..........................................................................................6Communication with stakeholders in considering the health and safety and decommissioning......................................................................................................................................................6Appropriate Examples of Oil and Gas Decommissioning..........................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONThe Pioneering Spirit is considered as the world's largest construction vessel with acapacity of 48,000 tonnes. The ship is specially designed and specialised for the removal oflarge oil and gas platforms. Completely decorated with cranes, pipelines of oil and managed by acrew of various workers, the Pioneering Spirit resides in the port of Rotterdam (Azaroff and et.al,2010). The ship will arrive in the North Sea next month because various equipment is due to bewithdrawn. Their focus is on removing the top of the shell equipment. These equipment arebeing withdrawn at a cost of billions to the oil companies and the taxpayers. According to the Oiland Gas, almost 300 equipment, structures of the sub-sea and the various pipelines from about144 fields and 1000 wells, these all are decided to get tout of the service. The report is abouthealth and safety measures while the decommissioning of the equipments for oil and gasfacilities.Monitoring the health and safetyDuring the whole management of the decommissioning projects in the North Seaoffshore, various health and safety measures has to be taken. The process involves variousfactors such as identifying the hazards, risk management, various methods for developing thesafety cases. These are discussed as under:Risks and HazardsIf proper evaluation of the risks has already taken place, it becomes quite easy todismantle or exclude the offshore equipment and the pipelines. It also helps in an efficient andsafe system of work. There are a variety of risks that deals with the removal of the rigs thatseems similar to those which arise at the time of construction or its maintenance. Theseoperations are being carried out on and also the off shore. Identifying the risk before it happenshelps in at least preventing it by taking some measures against it (Hjarnoe and Leppin, 2013).While applying some measures like this, the practitioners can make sure of saving themselvesfrom any misshapen. They can themselves recognize the danger as if sometime, anything theyfound is uncertain or they feel some sort of risk. There are some risks that are being encounteredduring the dismantling the offshore installations and these are discussed as under:All the installations must be free from any source of hydrocarbons.Properly Plugged and sealed wells should be there.The pipelines should be either remote or properly disconnected. 1
The processing plant should be free from any hydrocarbon liquids and gasses. Theseare properly removed by them by either draining, venting etc. The Abandonment Safety CaseAccording to the existing regulations of UK, it is important to provide an abandonmentsafety case to the HSE ( Health And Safety Executive) by all the involved operators. It has to bedone for taking the approval. The ship also have to first submit a case after which they can bepermitted to the whole dismantling process for the oil and gas facilities. The HSE inspectors doall the process internally and also discuss the same with the other operators as . They have to doit all so that they can be ensure about the main areas of concern. Pioneering Spirit also has totake the approval by HSE at least six months prior to any dismantling or decommissioningactivity (Cunningham, Sinclair and Schulte, 2014).Responsibility The management should ensure about the safety of the practitioners so that they may notbecome a victim of any uncertainty. While the whole decommissioning process, as it is a hardtask to do, anything can happen because of a single mistake of them. It can prove very harmfulalso, as it can affect their lives too. Although the management is responsible for managing theproper care of the employees, they should also take proper care and also should be able tothemselves from any danger. The management should make sure to guide all the employeesaware about the knowledge of various hazards and measures for preventing them. The authoritiesshould also monitor them while undergoing the decommissioning or dismantling process. At anyplace if they found that any misshapen or uncertain activity can happen, they can immediatelystop the work and take the specific preventive measures.Evacuation, Escape and Rescue (EER)Because of the small platforms, these have not received efficient consideration. It hasbeen determined specially for the offshore exclusion and decommissioning. The effect of therisks on the ability of EER has its own importance. It also focuses on giving the proper trainingto the decommissioning workforce. It is specially being provided to those who are not aware ofthe installation. The changes in the following strategy must ensure the involvement of theexclusion of the hydrocarbons for an effective production. If all the topsides of the PioneeringSpirit are being decommissioned as a single unit, it will be done in various months. Any2
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