Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Operations Framework Regulations — 9
Safety plan 9 (1) An operator must develop a safety plan that sets out the procedures, practices, resources, sequence of key safety-related activities and monitoring measures that are necessary to safely carry out a proposed work or activity, as well as the target levels of safety in respect of the work or activity and measures for hazard management. Documents and information (2) The safety plan must include the following documents and information: (a) specific references to and detailed descriptions of the provisions of the management system that relate to safety, sufficient to demonstrate how the obligations set out in these Regulations with regard to safety will be fulfilled; (b) a document that includes (i) a summary of the studies that have been carried out, and a description of the processes that will be followed, for the purposes of (A) identifying hazards related to the proposed work or activity that may occur during routine and non-routine operations, including any hazards posed by any other activities taking place near the proposed work or activity, and (B) assessing safety risks associated with the identified hazards, (ii) a description of the identified hazards referred to in clause (i)(A) and the results of the assessments referred to in clause (i)(B), (iii) a summary of the measures to be implemented to anticipate safety risks related to the identified hazards, (iv) a summary and evaluation of the measures to be implemented to reduce the safety risks associated with the identified hazards, including, if the possibility of ice hazards exists, measures for ice detection, forecasting, surveillance and reporting, including data collection, and any measures for ice avoidance or deflection, (v) a detailed description of the measures to be implemented to reduce safety risks to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable in respect of (A) the design of all installations, including their systems and equipment, (B) the design, winterization and operation of any installation that is to be operated in a cold climate, (C) the design, arrangement, installation and maintenance of barriers to provide fire and blast protection, (D) the design of all control systems, (E) the design, selection, location, installation, commissioning, protection, operation, inspection and maintenance of mechanical equipment, (F) the design, construction, installation, commissioning, operation, inspection, monitoring, testing and maintenance of any subsea production system under all foreseeable physical and environmental conditions and operating conditions for all modes of operation, (G) the management of temporary or portable equipment, and (H) the arrangement and specification of watertight and weathertight appliances, (vi) a detailed description of the measures to be implemented in respect of (A) the design and location of any vent that is used to release gas into the atmosphere without combustion in order to minimize the risk of accidental ignition of the gas, (B) the design, selection, operation, inspection, testing and maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment in order to minimize the risk of hazards to persons who use those systems and equipment, (C) the design of boilers and pressure systems in order to minimize the risk of hazards to the installation and to persons present on it and to any other installations, vessel or persons in proximity to it, and (D) the design and maintenance of any disconnectable mooring system on a floating platform to ensure that the risk that the system will fail to safely disconnect if exposed to situations that would exceed the platform’s structural limits or the system’s design limits is reduced to a level that is as low as reasonably practicable, without compromising the ability to achieve the target levels of safety set out in the safety plan and environmental protection plan, and (vii) a summary of the measures to be implemented for communicating the identified hazards and for mitigating the sa