AQ/T 3012-2008Guideline of safety management system implementation for petrochemical corporation (English PDF)

3.1 General

Enterprises shall have clear commitments and documented policy objectives for safety management. Enterprise leaders continuously improve their safety performance by providing resources as well as assessments and audits.

3.3 Policy objectives

The policy objectives are the guiding ideology and strategic goals of the enterprise in safety management, as well as the embodiment of pursuing good safety performance.

3.4 Responsibility

Enterprises shall implement safety responsibilities at all levels by establishing a safety management system.

4.1 General

Enterprises shall establish safety organizations and clarify their responsibilities, rationally allocate human, financial and material resources, conduct extensive training, to improve the safety awareness and professional skills of all employees.

4.2 Organization and responsibilities

The enterprise shall set a safety management committee, establish a corresponding safety management organization, clearly define its duties and authority.

4.3 Personnel, training and behavior

4.3.3 Training plan

The training plan is as follows.

4.3.4 Training records and files

Enterprises shall establish safety training records and files as required, including at least.

4.4 Financial and material resources

4.6 Management of file

4.6.1 Requirements for file control

Enterprises shall control the safety management documents, to ensure that.

4.6.2 Scope of document control

Scope of document control is as follows.

5.1 General

Enterprises shall conduct hazard identification and risk assessment in an organized manner, identify the hazards and impacts related to business activities, assess and analyze them,

5.2 Risk assessment

5.2.1 Scope and method of hazard identification

Enterprises shall systematically determine the hazards and impacts of production activities, product transportation and after-sales services, the scope shall cover the entire process from putting into production to product sales. At least it shall consider.

5.2.2 Risk assessment criteria

The risk assessment criteria are the basis for determining the hazard and its effects.

5.3 Risk control

5.3.1 Establish objectives and measures of risk control

The enterprise shall, after the risk assessment, according to the enterprise’s policies, the objectives, the needs of risk management and production & operation activities, formulate indicators for safety management activities.

These quantitative indicators shall be verifiable and achievable. Enterprises shall regularly review the continuity and suitability of quantitative indicators.

5.3.2 Identify and assess risk control measures

According to the results of risk assessment, take targeted risk control measures, to eliminate and reduce hazards and impacts, prevent potential accidents.

5.3.2.1 Principles of risk control

5.3.2.2 Technical measures for risk control.

5.3.2.3 Management measures for risk control.

5.3.3 Implement risk control measures

After the risk control measures are determined, it shall organize the implementation work in a timely manner, including.

5.4 Management of hidden danger

5.4.1 Scope of management of hidden danger

Enterprises shall assess the hidden dangers as exposed in risk assessment, safety inspection, production operations, formulate and implement hidden danger management and rectification plans.

5.4.2 Assessment of hidden risk

Enterprises shall determine the grading criteria for hidden dangers, select applicable assessment methods to assess the hidden dangers. For hidden dangers, it shall establish intact and complete files, submit them to relevant departments as required.

5.4.3 Management, acceptance of hidden dangers

The enterprise shall clarify the responsibility for rectification of hidden dangers, establish the compilation, funding, planning arrangement of the rectification plan of hidden dangers, as well as the management procedures or requirements for implementing control and acceptance.

6.1 General

Laws, regulations as well as other statutory requirements are an important part of enterprise’s safety management.

6.2 Identification and acquisition of regulations

Enterprises need to identify laws, regulations, and other requirements that apply to the hazards and risks. These requirements include but not limited to.

6.3 Regulatory review

In the process of identifying laws and regulations as well as other statutory requirements, determine how these requirements apply to the enterprise's risk control and conduct compliance reviews. The specific practices include.

7.1 General

Contractors, vendors and interested parties are important to the safety performance of the enterprise.

7.2 Management of contractor

7.2.1 Prequalification

The enterprise shall establish the prequalification criteria or requirements for the contractor; establish a list of contractors recognized by the enterprise through the review of the contractor, maintain relevant contractor information and documents. The review can either be in written form or a combination of written review and on-site review.

7.2.2 Selection of contractor

When selecting a contractor, the safety and business authorities review the contractor's ability to undertake the project, including.

7.2.3 Preparation before commencement

The enterprise signs a safety agreement with the contractor before the commencement of work. It shall introduce the overview and hazards as related to the construction or operation process to the contractor, conduct the safety training and education.

7.2.4 Supervision of operation process

The enterprise shall, during the project implementation process, inspect and supervise the contractor's operation process and record its safety performance.

It includes but not limited to.

7.3 Management of vendors

7.3.1 Prequalification

Enterprises shall establish a certification and assessment system for the vendor’s qualification, formulate prequalification, selection and renewal criteria, regularly conduct qualification examinations on the quality and after-sales service of materials (equipment) as supplied by vendors, regularly adjust and eliminate the vendors which fail to comply with requirements.

The technical documentation of the materials and equipment supplied by the vendor as required shall include.

7.3.2 Selection and renewal criteria

Enterprises shall frequently identify and control the hazards and business risks associated with procurement.

7.3.3 Assessment of performance

Enterprises shall regularly organize assessments for the vendors, archive the assessment results and materials, as an important basis for renewing vendors.

8.1 General

When newly-building, rebuilding and expanding devices (facilities), it shall follow the principles that the work safety and environmental protection facilities are designed, constructed, put into use simultaneously with the main work, to ensure that the devices (facilities) are maintained at good operation status during its service life.

8.3 Stage risk assessment

The design, construction, and construction organizations shall, based on the characteristics of each stage and each trade, organize the risk assessment activities for various stages of feasibility study, design, construction, startup.

Take effective risk reduction measures, to prevention and reduce the occurrence of all kinds of accidents and occupational diseases to the maximum extent, meanwhile reduce the hazard as caused to the environment.

8.4 Pre-startup review

The enterprise shall formulate a pre-startup inspection procedure for the newly- built, rebuilt, or expanded devices (facilities), form a document. The content of the review includes verifying whether the device (facility) is consistent with the design requirements;

8.5 Actual deviation

The actual deviations in the design, construction, installation, trial production processes must be confirmed and approved. Meanwhile documents shall be kept.

9.1 General

Enterprises shall establish the management procedures in production operations, equipment management, occupational health, environmental protection, etc., implement the systematic management in terms of production organization, process integrity, equipment integrity, operational safety, to ensure the realization of the policies and objectives.

9.4 Equipment integrity

Enterprises shall establish and maintain procedures to clarify the repair and maintenance criteria of equipment and facilities, to determine the maintenance items and cycles, thereby ensuring the integrity and safety of equipment and facilities. For deviations between the equipment in the operation and maintenance process and the criteria, the enterprise shall carry out assessment, find the causes of the deviation, determine the measures to correct deviations, form document. Meanwhile it shall.

9.5 Safe work management

The enterprise shall establish and maintain procedures, to control the activities that may pose risks to operators or production operations;

9.6 Occupational health management

9.6.1 Occupational health monitoring

Enterprises shall identify and determine various physical and chemical occupational hazard factors which are arising from the production process.

According to the requirements of laws and regulations, determine the scope and requirements for the monitoring of the hazard factors of occupational disease in enterprises, determine the content and frequency of monitoring, clarify the control requirements of qualifications, personnel, instruments, determine the requirements for preservation and publication of monitoring results.

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