Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 004A Hazard: REFINERY

1910.119(f)(1)(i)(D)* Operating procedures. The employer shall develop and implement written operating procedures that provide clear instructions for safely conducting activities involved in each covered process consistent with the process safety information and shall address at least the following elements. Steps for each operating phase: Emergency shutdown including the conditions under which emergency shutdown is required, and the assignment of shutdown responsibility to qualified operators to ensure that emergency shutdown is executed in a safe and timely manner: 1. The employer has not developed Emergency Shutdown Procedures (ESP) when required. To include: the conditions that may warrant an emergency shutdown (e.g. failure of process equipment, loss of electrical power, loss of instrumentation or cooling, fire, explosion, etc.), normal operating parameters (temperature, pressure, level, etc.), system upset, or abnormal conditions, etc. 2. The employer did not provide initial or refresher training in ESP to operators who are required to shut down a process in a safe and timely manner during an emergency. 3. The employer did not specify in the ESP: Which operators are assigned authority to shut down a process during an emergency; or the qualifications required of operators who are expected to shut down the process during an emergency. 4. The employer failed to provide actual shut down authority to operators (implied). 5. The employer did not develop or implement operating procedures for the administrative control of intervening valves on the upstream or downstream lines to/from relief devices.