MINIMUM REQUIRED ALARMS ARE INDICATED IN P&IDS.

ALARM MANAGEMENT IS PART OF DETAILED ENGINEERING

PSBR #9: PTW

PSBR 9 Alarm management - Control & Automation

Purpose

To manage the Risk of harm to people and the environment due to lack of control in
abnormal operational situations.

What situations are covered?

Assets that have process Hazards with RAM red Risks and yellow 5B Risks and that are used
for exploring, drilling, producing, processing, transporting or storing Hazardous Substances
or energy.

Requirements

1. Each Asset shall have an alarm management system that provides the operator with
an adequate set of warnings against excursions beyond its safe operating limits both
during normal operation and during abnormal situations (startups, shutdowns and
upsets), whilst minimizing and where necessary suppressing, standing alarms,
nuisance alarms, repeating alarms and alarm floods.

2. One way of meeting these objectives is to follow DEP 32.80.10.14-Gen “Alarm

management“.

Major incidents in industry

Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor Core Meltdown, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1979

Esso Longford Gas Plant Explosion, Australia, September 25, 1998

Compliance statement for PSBR-9

Description:
Documents:

 X
 Y
 Z

Originator:

A
Senior Control & Automation Engineer
Signature and Date

Checker:

B
Senior Project Engineer
Signature and Date

Approver:

C
Functional C&A and Project Support Leader TA2 / CFDH
Signature and Date