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Safety Regulation

This lecture provides insights into the safety regulations and laws governing the petroleum industry. It covers the historical development, accidents, legislation, bodies involved, state safety management, industry safety management systems, and interactions between different systems. The session also touches upon jurisdiction, relevant acts, regulations, and the role of various authorities in ensuring safety. The lecture addresses the importance of functional requirements, safety norms, and guidelines in maintaining safety standards in petroleum activities. It emphasizes the need for compliance to prevent harm to personnel, the environment, and financial values. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of safety norms and regulations in the petroleum sector.

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Safety Regulation

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  1. Safety Regulation Petroleum law 3. April 2008 Hanne Sofie Logstein, Research fellow Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Department of petroleum and Energy Law h.s.logstein@jus.uio.no

  2. Scope of the lecture • Introduction, historic development, accidents, jurisdiction • The legislation, Acts and regulations • The Bodies, Companies and the state • State safety management • Safety norms, functional requirements, supplied interpretation and guidelines • Industry safety management system • The interaction between the systems • Reactions/sanctions

  3. Introduction • Young industry • Risky conditions • New technology • “Old” equipment • Vulnerable areas • Accidents • Alexander Kielland, 1980 • Piper Alpha, British Continental Shelf, 1988

  4. Piper Alpha

  5. Risk • Risk • The product of probability of occurrence of an undesirable event, times the probable consequences if it occurs • Technology, economic, “soft issues” etc

  6. Historical development • The development • Concrete rules -more detailed • General problem: • The industry have first hand experience • The legislation always lays behind • Mid 70`s: • internal control • functional requirements

  7. Jurisdiction • Located at the continental shelf • UNCLOS art 77 • Fixed installations vs. mobile facilities (maritime law) • The costal states interests vs. flag state • PA § 1-4 ”This act applies to petroleum activities…” • Other Norwegian law ”shall also be applicable to petroleum activities”, PA § 1-5 • not mobile facilities under foreign flag • If not permanent placed • The King may decide §§ 1-4, 1-5

  8. The relevant acts • The Petroleum Activities Act (PA) • The Working Environment Act. • The Pollution Control Act • The Control of Products and Consumer Services Act • Applicable to the extent suitable to the scope FR § 2 • The Health Personnel Act • The Patients’ Rights Act • The Health and Social Preparedness Act. • (The seaworthiness act 1903 repealed –a new ship safety act in force 1. July 2007)

  9. The regulation • The framework regulations (FW) (Royal Decree), • Subordinate regulations: • The management regulations • The information duty regulations • The facilities regulations • The activities regulations.

  10. Bodies I: The authorities • The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) until 2004 • Divided in 2004: • NPD Resource management • The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) established dealing with safety issues • Report No. 17(2002-2003) to The Storting (parliament) about public supervise (tilsynsmeldingen)

  11. Bodies II: The authorities Cooperation between • The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (under the Ministry of the Environment) • The Norwegian Social and Health Directorate –NSHD (Ministry of Health and Care Services) • The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) (Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion) • PSA a coordinating role

  12. Bodies III: The companies • The licensee • The operator • “Other parties participating” –all parties without being licensee or operator • ”The party responsible” –the operator and other parties participating • Entrepreneurs • Employers; safety and the working environment: The Working Environment Act

  13. The bodies IIII: The employees • Duty to contribute, Working Environment Act § 2-3, Framework reg. §§ 5 and 13 • Right to contribute Framework § 6 • The three party cooperation

  14. Types of safety norms • Requirements with a direct affect on the risk • Requirements with an indirect affect on the risk • The legal basis for safety control

  15. The states involvement Prescription of norms + Safety control + Enforcement = “State safety management”

  16. Safety in the Petroleum Act • Measures to: • Prevent harm to personnel, the environment and financial values • Maintain production and transport regularity • Enable the probability of harm to be counteracted, withstood or remedied (Proposition to the Odelsting No 43 (1995-96), comments to the PA § 10-1, see Guidelines to the Framework regulation section 2)

  17. Ways to prescribe safety norms Stipulate results Stipulatemethods Specified requirements Unspecified requirements

  18. “Functional requirements” “The HSE regulations for the petroleum activities are normative and contain functional requirements.  This means that the regulations state the level of safety that must be achieved - but not how to achieve it.” • What to be achieved rather than provide concrete solutions • Fragmented • Flexibility • Freedom of choice • Ex: Prudent petroleum activities

  19. Example; Prudent petroleum activity “Petroleum activities according to this Act shall be conducted in a prudent manner” PA § 10-1 “Petroleum activities shall be safe and prudent, both in relation to an individual and an overall con­sideration of all the factors of importance to planning and implementation of petroleum activities as regards health, environment and safety”Framework regulation § 8 “Encourage and promote a sound health, environment and safety culture” Framework § 11

  20. The regulation; Specified trough • Consents to certain petroleum activities, Information duty regulations § 5 • Administrative decisions/individual decisions • No legally binding sources • Guidelines • Standards • Statutory interpretation • From the authorities • From co –operative bodies • Penalty reactions/sanctions

  21. Example – Consents: Application rejected “ DNO's application for consent for exploration drilling is rejected 15.1.2007” “The assessment is based on the application for consent and other information received from DNO. We find that the operator has not been in possession of the required competence and capacity in their preparations for the upcoming activities. Nor does DNO have the necessary competence and capacity required to run a prudent drilling operation.”

  22. Interpretation • Statutory interpretation • Interpretation by joint delegations. • Third party –co-operation • Freedom to choose? • The authority gives no guarantee for that the chosen solution fulfils the requirements of the regulation • The responsibility lies by the party responsible

  23. Guidelines • Given at the same time as the regulation • Not legally binding • 2 functions • Suggestion of how to meet the requirements “makes use of a standard recommended” … “may as a rule take it that the regulation requirements have been met” FW § 18 • States a level • “Harm or danger”… “shall be prevented or limited in accordance with the legislation…including internal requirements and acceptance criteria” FW § 9

  24. A dynamic requirement • The level is developing “Over and above this level the risk shall be further reduced to the extent possible” “shall choose the technical, operational or organisational solutions which according to an individual as well as an overall evaluation of the potential harm and present and future use offer the best results” FR § 9 • The limit -narrow “provided the associated costs are not significantly disproportionate to the risk reduction achieved”

  25. The industry safety management system • Internal regulations “The party responsible shall set internal requirements which put the regulatory requirements in concrete terms” The management regulations § 5

  26. The industry safety management system • Internal control • “The licensee and other persons engaged…are obliged to comply with the Act, regulations and individual administrative decisions… through the implementation of necessary systematic measures” PA § 10-6 • See to it -duty, (The licensee; PA § 10-6. 2nd paragraph and the operator; FW § 5)

  27. The industry safety management system • Internal control -continued “shall establish, follow up and further develop a management system in order to ensure compliance with requirements contained in the legislation relating to health, environment and safety” FR §13 “shall decide on the extent of verifications, the method to be used in and the degree of independence of the verification in order to document that the requirements …have been met” FW § 18

  28. The industry safety management system • Internal control –continued “shall ensurethat documentation demonstrating compliance with requirements stipulated in or pursuant to these regulations, can be provided” “When other solutions than those recommended in the guidelines to a provision of the regulations are used, the party responsible shall be able to document that the chosen solution fulfils the requirements of the regulations” FW § 18

  29. Industry safety management Internal regulation + Internal control = “Industry safety management”

  30. Affects the states supervision “The Petroleum Safety Authority carries out supervision of the management system which is established pursuant to these regulations and makes the decisions necessary to fulfil provisions on requirements to the administrative parts of the management systems, stipulated by or pursuant to these regulations. This is done in co-operation with the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and the Norwegian Board of Health…” FR § 13 “The Petroleum Safety Authority may order the operator to have verifications carried out, or alternatively carry out verifications itself.” FR § 15

  31. The interaction between state and industry safety management

  32. Sanctions/penalty reactions • Reactions not laid down by the law • Revoke a license granted PA § 10-13 • Administrative sanctions -orders PA §§ 10-3, 10-16 • Suspension of the petroleum activities §§ 9-5, 10-16 • Penalty sanctions PA § 10-17

  33. Example incidents, Enforcement measures - orders Report following investigation of fire in the HVAC unit on Songa Dee 2008-03-26 On 4 December 2007, a fire broke out on the mobile facility Songa Dee during drilling activity for StatoilHydro on the Troll field. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has investigated the incident and, among other things, identified four nonconformities in relation to regulatory requirements. The report also includes 12 observations of items where there is a potential for improvement.

  34. Prosecution and decisions by the court • Prosecution: • After accidents and other incidents • Decisions by the court • Two after The Alexander Kielland –disaster • Suffisient training, The working environment act

  35. Latest development • From 2004: Some facilities at land (changed the geographical scope of the regulations

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