Health and Satety Executive 4. The instrument connections beyond the primary isolation facility may be less. robust than the primary process connection. For example, compression fittings may be used in the impulse tubing installation and the instrument itself may include components stich as flexible hoses or sight glasses. Your tisk assessment should consider whether you need controls to limit inventory loss if the instrument system ruptures; these controls need to be carefully selected as malfunction can affect, system functionality or reliably 5 Most instruments have local isolation facililes to allow the instrument to be calibrated, function tested and maintained. These local isolation facilties, with the primary process isolation, can form a double block and bleed isolation. 6 Drain, vent and test points should have valves to close them off when not in use, These open connections should generally be plugged, but these removing the caps should be aware of the possiblity of the risk of a pressure buld-up from an undetected passing valve. 7 Plant of older design may have only a single valve, without vent or drain, as the means of Isolation. You should tisk assess any such vatations from your standards to establish the need for isolation facies to be improved by plant modification (see paragraphs 137-140), \Where instruments are mounted directly conto the vessel, and provide patt of the primary process containment envelope, removal can be carried out only after isolation of the primary process vessel itset. 8 Proprietary equipment, such as some office plate caters and corrosion monitoring access fittings, may allow removal of a plate or @ coupon ftom a plant with only @ single valve isolation. Such equipment should be operated in strict accordance with the manufactures Insttuctions. Risk assessment will be needed to confirm that the standard ot isolation provided is in ine with the guidance outlined within this document. In any event, there should be separate means of 'solating this type of equipment on both upstream and dovinstieam sides. baseline isolation standard the minimum acceptable standard of final isolation ‘applied under normal circurnstances. This standard is based on risk assessinent, It can be detetinined using the methodology in Appendix 6 oF by olher means. The sa lscaton of plant and equipment Page 76 ot 81