Health and Satety Executive 80 The following issues should be considered and included within the design documentation: |B alternative modes of plant operation using differing flow routes; requirements for intrusive plant operations (for example filter change-out, sampling or removal of pipeline pigs from launchers and receivers) and requirements for access into equipment for inspection and/or maintenance; and the detail of isolation arrangements, Including valve types, spacers/spading points or spectacle blinds, test points and associated vents and drains for venting, flushing and purging, Positive isolation requirements 81 Design of new plant should include facilities for positive isolation {including the vaNed isolation to install the positive isolation) in the following situations: for vessel entty, where @ requirement for entry cannot be elitinated by equipment design (see paragraph 97); 1m for isolation of toxic fulds; or to control segregation of patts of the plant which, in allemative operating ‘modes, inight otherwise be exposed to overpressure conditions. This applies where it is not reasonably practicable for the installed safety systems to protect all foreseeable operating configurations, for example the separation of a high-pressure plant from its drainage system. Plant Identification 2 A scheme to uniquely identity all process plant, piping, and valves should be drawn up. Alliterns should be readily identflable on the plant and referenced on the piping and instrumentation iagrarns (P&IDs). In addition, you should permanently label key iterns of equipment. Formal, simple, easly visible and unambiguous labeling should be provided wherever mistakes in Kfentiication could occur and could result in significant consequences." Pipework 33. Pipework layout should minimise trapped inventories and allow easy removal of fluid for isolation purposes. Ensure that pipework: ms of sufficient size and design to minimise the possibilty of becoming blocked in service; and ms robust and able, where appropriate, to cope with the repetitive stresses: imposed by vibration, pulsating pressure and temperature cycling.” 4 Any piece of pipework intended for physical disconnection should be easily teinovable. Pipework supports should provide adequate support during disconnection, Provide supports where temporary hoses will be requited for bleoding, Valves 85 ‘Specify suitable isolation valves for the service fluid and operating conditions (see Appendix 4). Ensure that you can indicate and effectively secure the position of manually operated valves, Pressure safety valves 36 Isolation valves should be provided downstream of pressure safely valves for safe isolation from a shared flare or vent systomn if intrusive maintonance is intended at any time when the rernainder of the flare or vent system Is in operation. Also, where an isolation valve is downstream from a pressure safety valve, you should be able to secure the isolation valve in the open position at all times when the pressure safety valve fs on-line, Standards for safety systems in Unfired pressure vessels ate given in BS EN 764-7. The sa lscaton of plant and equipment Page Qt 8