Emergency Planning

Emergency planning includes the preparation of following:

HAZEER (Hazards in Emergency Evacuation & Rescue)

The workshop based approach is adopted to identify the hazards in Emergency Evacuation and Rescue Equipment. The deviations are identified by using the guidewords. The additional safeguards and improvements in the existing equipment are identified through discussions with the stakeholders.

Emergency Response Plan (ERP)

ERP provides the systems and procedures for managing emergencies such as fire, explosion, toxic release, medical emergencies, structural collapse.

Emergency Escape Evacuation & Rescue (EERA)

The main objective of the study is to establish the functional requirements of the EER facilities and verify the design of Escape, Evacuation and Rescue (EER) facilities to ensure the risk to personnel during the EER phase of incident development is appropriately managed.

The objective of this study is achieved by:

• Assessing the adequacy of the escape and evacuation provisions on the facility and the ability of proposed EER arrangements to achieve their goals under credible accident conditions during the operational phase;
• Identifying any risk reduction measures to mitigate the effects of potential MAE on escape and evacuation facilities and improve or enhance the currently proposed facilities ; and
• To estimate maximum Escape, Muster and Evacuation time in facilities and determine endurance time requirement

Emergency Systems Survivability Analysis (ESSA)

The main objective of the ESSA is to assess whether the emergency systems installed can withstand an initial incident, or survive long enough to achieve the following three fundamental objectives:

The safe shutdown of the facilities that is the isolation of the hazardous inventory by closure of the emergency shutdown valves, the removal of any potential ignition sources by equipment shutdown, and the removal of the isolated inventory by blow down;

The safe mustering of personnel in the designated areas for personnel on project facilities; and The integrity of the TR/ muster areas is maintained for sufficient time to allow orderly evacuation or until there is no further risk from the initiating hazard.

The ESSA only addresses emergency systems that significantly contribute to the safety of personnel in the context of MAEs having the potential to result in multiple fatalities. The survivability of emergency systems is only considered for the time required to make the platform safe or the time required by personnel to safely evacuate the facilities.

This analysis is qualitative and involves an analysis of the anticipated effectiveness of each component of the overall emergency system in each MAE for which it is intended. The analysis aims at demonstrating that all reasonably practicable measures have been implemented to ensure the survivability of the emergency systems.