Directive 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

2. INFORMATION TO BE SUBMITTED IN A REPORT ON MAJOR HAZARDS FOR OPERATION OF A PRODUCTION INSTALLATION

Reports on major hazards for a production installation to be prepared in accordance with Article 12 and submitted pursuant to point (e) of Article 11(1) shall contain at least the following information:

(1)

a description of the account taken of the competent authority’s response to the design notification;

(2)

the name and address of the operator of the installation;

(3)

a summary of any worker involvement in the preparation of the report on major hazards;

(4)

a description of the installation and any association with other installations or connected infrastructure, including wells;

(5)

demonstration that all the major hazards have been identified, their likelihood and consequences assessed, including any environmental, meteorological and seabed limitations on safe operations, and that their control measures including associated safety and environmental critical elements are suitable so as to reduce the risk of a major accident to an acceptable level; this demonstration shall include an assessment of oil spill response effectiveness;

(6)

a description of the types of operations with major hazard potential to be carried out, and the maximum number of persons that can be on the installation at any time;

(7)

a description of equipment and arrangements to ensure well control, process safety, containment of hazardous substances, prevention of fire and explosion, protection of the workers from hazardous substances, and protection of the environment from an incipient major accident;

(8)

a description of the arrangements to protect persons on the installation from major hazards, and to ensure their safe escape, evacuation and rescue, and arrangements for the maintenance of control systems to prevent damage to the installation and the environment in the event that all personnel are evacuated;

(9)

relevant codes, standards and guidance used in the construction and commissioning of the installation;

(10)

information, regarding the operator’s safety and environmental management system, that is relevant to the production installation;

(11)

an internal emergency response plan or an adequate description thereof;

(12)

a description of the independent verification scheme;

(13)

any other relevant details, for example where two or more installations operate in combination in a way which affects the major hazard potential of either or all installations;

(14)

the information relevant to other requirements under this Directive obtained pursuant to the major accident prevention requirements of Directive 92/91/EEC;

(15)

in respect of operations to be conducted from the installation, any information relating to the prevention of major accidents resulting in significant or serious damage to the environment relevant to other requirements under this Directive, obtained pursuant to Directive 2011/92/EU;

(16)

an assessment of the identified potential environmental effects resulting from the loss of containment of pollutants arising from a major accident, and a description of the technical and non-technical measures envisaged to prevent, reduce or offset them, including monitoring.