REGULATIONS MADE IN TERMS OF Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act 2 of 1991 section 76A Regulations relating to the Health, Safety and Welfare of Persons Employed, and Protection of Other Persons, Property, the Environment and Natural Resources, in, at or in the vicinity of Exploration and Production Government Notice 190 of 1999 (GG 2188) came into force on date of publication: 23 September 1999 The Government Notice which publishes these regulations notes that they were made in consultation with the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources and the Minister of Environment and Tourism. ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS PART I PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS l. Definitions 2. Application of regulations PART II GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF OPERATORS 3. Main responsibility for health, safety and welfare of persons employed or performing work, and for protection of other persons, property, the environment and natural resources, in, at or in respect of any area where petroleum activities are carried out 4. Health factors 5. Safety precautions 6. Powers of Minister in relation to non-compliance with these regulations 7. General safety PART III INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM 8. Establishment of internal control system 9. General requirement relating to persons at work in connection with petroleum activities 10. Duty to provide information 11. Duty to assist State in in-service training
in the event of an emergency situation. (2) For the purpose of this regulation, “emergency preparedness organisation” means an organisation set up by the operator consisting of some of its employees or people performing work relating to a petroleum activity carried out under the licence concerned, which shall implement the emergency preparedness plan. Alarm system 79. (1) The operator shall ensure that an alarm system is activated in an emergency situation arising out of the petroleum activities carried out under the licence concerned to give prompt and adequate warning of that situation and enable all emergency preparedness resources to be mobilised. [The number “(1)” above appears to be in error, as there are no other subregulations in regulation 79.] Access and evacuation facilities 80. (1) The operator shall ensure that an installation is provided with - (a) such access and evacuation facilities as are safe and without hazards to health, available for use at all times, unobstructed and sufficient to allow for free passage of persons; and (b) clearly marked and visible access and evacuation routes. (2) No person shall enter or leave the installation concerned except by means of the evacuation routes referred to in subregulation (1)(b). PART XIII SAFETY ZONES Establishment of safety zones in relation to offshore installations 81. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the operator - (a) shall establish around and over an offshore installation a safety zone with its outer boundary connected at a point 500 metres from the end of each anchor or the outer edges of the installation and determined with due regard to - (i) mining, fishing, tourism and other activities and interests that will be affected; and (ii) the nature of, and the functions performed by or at that installation; and (b) shall give notice of the establishment of a safety zone and of its location, extent, duration, marking and such other information as may from time to time be determined by the Minister, to - (i) the Commissioner, who shall notify all relevant parties, and cause such notice to be published in the “Notice to Mariners” published by the Hydrographic Office at Cape Town in the Republic of South Africa; and