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Gas Safety (Management) Regulations 1996

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Regulation 3(1)

SCHEDULE 1PARTICULARS TO BE INCLUDED IN SAFETY CASE OF A PERSON CONVEYING GAS

General

1.  Name and address of the person preparing the safety case (in this Schedule referred to as “the duty holder”).

2.  A description of the operation intended to be undertaken by the duty holder.

3.  A general description of the plant and premises the duty holder intends to use in connection with the operation including, in particular, the geographical location where any pipes he uses joins pipes used by other persons for conveying gas.

4.  Particulars of any—

(a)technical specifications;

(b)procedures or arrangements relating to operation and maintenance,

which the duty holder intends to follow in connection with the operation he intends to undertake insofar as they affect the health and safety of persons.

Safety management

5.  A statement of the significant findings of the risk assessment he has made pursuant to regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992(1), and particulars of the arrangements he has made in accordance with regulation 4(1) thereof.

6.  Particulars to demonstrate that the management system of the duty holder is adequate to ensure that the relevant statutory provisions will (in respect of matters within his control) be complied with in relation to the operation he intends to undertake.

7.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for ensuring the competence of his employees in health and safety matters.

8.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for managing work carried out by persons who are not his employees on or in relation to plant or premises which he owns or controls.

9.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for passing information relevant to health and safety to persons within his undertaking.

10.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for passing and receiving information relevant to health and safety to and from other persons who have duties under these Regulations.

11.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for audit and the making of any necessary reports.

Co-operation

12.  Particulars of the arrangements the duty holder has established to enable him to comply with regulation 6 (co-operation) including (except where he is the network emergency co-ordinator) particulars of the arrangements he has established to ensure that any directions given to him by the network emergency co-ordinator are followed.

Gas escapes and investigations

13.  Particulars of the arrangements—

(a)the duty holder and any emergency service provider appointed by him have established to enable him or the provider, as the case may be, to comply with regulation 7(4) to (6);

(b)the duty holder has established to appoint emergency service providers.

14.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements to enable him to comply with paragraphs (12), (13), (15) and (16) of regulation 7, for co-ordinating the investigations he causes to be carried out pursuant to that regulation with other investigations carried out pursuant thereto, and for participating in such other investigations.

Content and other characteristics of gas

15.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements to ensure that all gas he conveys complies with regulation 8.

Continuity of supply

16.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements to minimise the risk of a supply emergency.

17.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements to ensure that the gas he conveys will be at an adequate pressure when it leaves the part of the network used by him.

Supply emergencies

18.  Particulars to demonstrate that the duty holder has established adequate arrangements for dealing with supply emergencies or other incidents which could endanger persons.

19.  Where the duty holder is the only person conveying gas in a network, particulars to demonstrate that he has established adequate arrangements to decide when and for how long gas not conforming with the requirements of regulation 8(1) should be conveyed in the network pursuant to regulation 8(4).

20.  Without prejudice to paragraph 18 above, particulars of the procedures that the duty holder has established to discontinue safely supply to consumers, when it is known there is insufficient gas to satisfy demand.

21.  Particulars of the procedures that the duty holder has established to restore safely the gas supply to consumers, following an interruption in supply.

Interpretation

22.  In this Schedule—

(a)“audit” means systematic assessment of the adequacy of the management system to achieve the purpose referred to in paragraph 6 carried out by persons who are sufficiently independent of the system (but who may be employed by the duty holder) to ensure that such assessment is objective;

(b);“management system” means the organisation and arrangements established by the duty holder for managing his undertaking;

(c)any reference to an operation intended to be undertaken by the duty holder is a reference to his intended operation of conveying gas in a network.

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