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COMMISSIONING

12/09/01 0 ISSUE A. Cini F. Raveggi C. Materazzi

22/01/04 1 REVISION R. Pagano P. Pisoni M. Messeri

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INDEX

1. SCOPE 3

2. APPLICATION FIELD 3

3. RESPONSIBILITIES 3

4. NP SITE MANAGER DUTIES DURING COMMISSIONING 3

5. RISK VALUATION 3

6. OPERATIVE INSTRUCTION 3

7. AREA DELIMITATION 4

8. AREA PREDISPOSITION 4

9. PERSONNEL INFORMATION AND TRAINING 4

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EHS-P17.R01: COMMISSIONING AREAS OR PLANTS RECORD

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1. SCOPE

This procedure defines operative instructions for commissioning activities, that is to say when machines,
equipment or plant are started-up after installation or after maintenance and/or modifications (i.e. putting under
voltage, putting under pressure, etc.).

2. APPLICATION FIELD
This procedure must be applied in assembly/service activities, carried out c/o the customer. By way of
example, but not exhaustive, for overhauls, maintenance, supply, manufacture, commissioning of machines
and/or plants inside productive units already existent (petrochemical industries, thermoelectrical power plants,
etc.) or new productive units.
3. RESPONSIBILITIES

All NP or Subcontractor Companies personnel, operating within activities foreseen in contract, is

responsible, as far as their province, of application of this procedure and of all EHS Manual.

4. NP SITE MANAGER DUTIES DURING COMMISSIONING

NP Site Manager is the person in charge for commissioning activity, he analyses start-up phases,
individuating potential hazards, estimating risks and defines safety measures that must be adopted to eliminate
or minimise risks for workers.
Commissioning is an operative activity that needs a specific organisation and management, with presence
of mechanic and electro-instrumental specialised personnel.

5. RISK VALUATION

Commissioning requires the introduction of one or more foreign elements at assembly and pre-
commissioning phases, that is to say:
• electricity;
• gas;
• liquids;
• machines in movement.
Such elements are potential hazards with the following risks:
• electrocution;
• fires and/or explosions of gas or flammable and/or combustible liquids;
• exposition to harmful chemical substances present in gasses or liquids;
• impact with fragments projected by high pressures;
• contact with parts at high temperature;
• contact/impact/entanglement with moving parts;
• exposition to high level noise;
For each risks found, NP Site Manager eventually supported by EHS Coordinator, must:
• individuate particular measures for eliminating and/or reducing risks;
• individuate collective and personal protective equipments that must be used.

6. OPERATIVE INSTRUCTION
Commissioning specifications contain cards and standard instructions for all checks and tests that must
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be carried out on the machine, equipment or plant, at the end of assembly, and after pre-commissioning checks.
Before starting the Commissioning phase, it is necessary that NP Site Manager makes sure that check list
have been all correctly filled.
At this point NP Site Manager becomes in charge of the plant, or part of it (by using the specific record
EHS-P17.R01) and makes sure that safety signals are applied, in particular:
• the warning sign “EQUIPMENT/MACHINE IN COMMISSIONING” on equipment involved in start-up
operations;
Such signal must be applied on all control equipment (switches, valves, etc.) as well as on machines
passed from assembly and pre-commissioning phase to start-up phase.
Commissioning activities involve more persons and however they can interfere or involve persons that
are working in adjacent places, therefore NP Site Manager, before starting activities, must always apply the
Coordination Procedure (ref. EHS-P03.000). The minute of meeting has to be signed by all the participants.
Resolution activities of eventual assembly and pre-commissioning “punch lists” points or successive
modifications that should be necessary to the plant, can be carried out during commissioning phases,
exclusively after opening a regular Work Permit, according to instructions contained in it (ref. EHS-P04.000).

7. AREA DELIMITATION
Areas and/or environments involved in commissioning phase must be circumscribed and signalled before
starting operations.
Circumscription must be effected according to the introduced potential hazard (presence of gas, high
pressure, high temperature, moving parts, noise, etc.) and at such distance for eliminating any residual risk.
This area must be reached only by commissioning phase operators, previously informed and trained
concerning risks and measures that must be adopted.
The above mentioned information must be implemented with safety signs applied particularly on area
accesses, such as:
• no entry for unauthorised personnel;
• no smoking and/or do not use free flames;
• use of mobile phones or other non explosion proof apparatus;
• noise level >90 dBA;
• anti-noise ear protection compulsory.

8. AREA PREDISPOSITION
Areas and/or environments involved in commissioning phase must be free of materials, equipment and
foreign means, and particularly free of flammable and/or combustible materials.
Emergency passages and courses, access to fire-fighting (fire extinguishers) and emergency (stop or
alarm pushbuttons, electric control panels, etc.) means must always be ensured.
In such areas, if not already equipped, there must be installed fire-fighting means (fire extinguishers)
after a preliminary estimation of fire risk, carried out by the Site Manager.
Fire-fighting means must be installed in a position that can be easily reached and individuate.
9. PERSONNEL INFORMATION AND TRAINING
Personnel team in charge for carrying out commissioning phase must be limited to the strictly necessary,
and must be previously informed and trained concerning potential hazards present in involved areas and
environments, potential hazards caused by activities that they are going to effect, consequent risks and safety
measures that must be adopted, included personal protective equipments.
It is fundamental to define duties of single persons during commissioning phase.
For the above mentioned reasons, it is necessary, before the start of the activities, to held a coordination
meeting with all the personnel participating to the operation and register the meeting in a minute signed by all
the participants.