Who is responsible for applying lead seals to the stop valves or gate valves located before the safety valve?
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Everyone, who is responsible for applying lead seals to the handwheels of the stop valves or gate valves located in front of the safety valves in your workshops (in order to prevent accidental operation)? Is it the process team, the equipment team, or the safety team? Is seal management part of process management or equipment management?
Operation of safety valves – Process; Calibration and maintenance of safety valves – Equipment; Supervision of the use and maintenance of safety valves – Safety. Placing seals on them certainly falls within the scope of process operations!
We are managed by equipment management. The investigation of accidents that cause safety valves to activate falls under the management and evaluation responsibilities of the process control department (Production Department), whereas the maintenance of safety valves is part of equipment management, with the primary goal being to ensure the safety of pressure vessels.
There is no standard for who should be in charge; it depends entirely on the work habits formed by each unit based on its own understanding of this management. So, for safety accessories as well, how is the pressure gauge managed? ? ? The answers are also not uniform. If you don’t believe it, give it a try
Do you still have the sealed ledger? Isn’t this about managing the process?
Then who is in charge of managing your sealed ledger?
I’m also troubled by this issue; I’m currently trying to clarify the responsibilities involved, but there are no established procedures or templates for it. At present, the production workshop handles everything on its own, including keeping records, submitting inspection requests, formulating plans for replacing safety valves that fail inspections, as well as handling other administrative tasks such as sealing the root valves, as mentioned by the original poster. The relevant department doesn’t get involved in these matters; they ask the workshop for any data they need. The production department is not involved in the management of safety valves; the safety department is only responsible for inspections; the technical and equipment department is solely in charge of coordinating external inspections; the equipment maintenance department is only responsible for disassembling and assembling them. In short, all management activities follow the principle of locality, except for the allocation of benefits, which does not follow this principle: lol
It is under the responsibility of the equipment technician; there is no separate record, and it is attached to the inspection record for safety accessories (indicating whether the seal is intact and when it was damaged).