An automatic water cut-off system must be installed in the tank area
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**Order No. 84 of the State Administration for Work Safety, titled “Ten Provisions on Fire and Explosion Prevention in Oil and Gas Storage Areas,” was approved at the meeting of the Bureau Director’s Office of the State Administration for Work Safety on July 30, 2015. It is now hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of the date of publication. Director Yang Dongliang, August 4, 2015 – Ten Regulations on Fire and Explosion Prevention in Oil and Gas Storage Areas. 1. It is strictly prohibited to operate oil and gas storage tanks beyond their temperature, pressure, or liquid level limits, as well as to change the storage medium without proper authorization. II. It is strictly prohibited for operators to leave the site when manually removing water, switching tanks, or loading/unloading vehicles in oil and gas tank farms. III. It is strictly prohibited to shut down the safety valves and cut-off valves of operating oil and gas storage tanks, as well as to install blind flanges on the pressure relief and discharge systems. IV. It is strictly prohibited to disable the temperature, pressure, level, as well as combustible and toxic gas alarm and interlock systems in oil and gas tank farms. V. It is strictly prohibited to perform welding work or enter confined spaces in oil and gas tank areas without conducting gas testing and obtaining an operation permit. VI. It is strictly prohibited for the floating disk of an internal floating roof storage tank to touch the bottom during operation. VII. It is strictly prohibited to directly add substances of unknown properties or those that may undergo violent reactions into oil and gas storage tanks or the pipelines connected to them. 8. The use of non-explosion-proof lighting, electrical equipment, tools, and electronic devices in oil and gas tank areas is strictly prohibited. IX. It is strictly prohibited to allow unqualified personnel and contractors without the necessary qualifications to work in oil and gas tank farms; motor vehicles and outsiders are not permitted to enter the tank farms without authorization. X. It is strictly prohibited to operate equipment and facilities in oil and gas tank farms when they are in poor condition or faulty.
Our company doesn’t have an automatic water cut-off device yet; we need to install one right away
Study it carefully*, understand its essence, identify your own shortcomings, and make corrections!!!!!!!!!!!
Yang Dongliang is also an amateur; his work style is similar to that of some people in companies these days – as soon as something goes wrong, they immediately carry out corresponding rectifications. Regulations for working in confined spaces, regulations for operations in oil tanks in large processing enterprises – all are of this kind. The key to solving this problem is for local safety supervision departments and corporate safety supervision departments to ensure strict implementation, rather than coming up with a few regulations only after an incident occurs. These rules, regulations, and standards have already existed for a long time; is it really necessary for the safety supervision agency to distill out a few of them to form some sort of xx regulation?
I agree with the view above; it depends on the level of regulation in place, and the actual outcomes must also be taken into account. Sometimes, just making demands is pointless if the technology doesn’t allow for it
The people in the safety supervision agency are all amateurs – why do amateurs make the rules?
Let laypeople make the rules; ask experts for advice.
One measure for each situation – it’s impossible to know exactly how many safety regulations exist in each organization! Patches upon patches!
The safety supervision agency does have sensible people, but the problem is the fear of taking responsibility; for anything to be done, experts are needed – for inspections, for re-inspections, for evaluations. Many of the opinions issued by the safety supervision agency are in agreement with those of the experts
It’s not too late to mend the fold after the sheep are lost. The work safety supervision agency also faces difficulties.
Well, it’s true – it’s not easy for anyone. This is just the current situation, haha; keep trying