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Resources Safety Division
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Towards Best Practice Safety Regulation
Petroleum Regulations Presentation
February 2010
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Occupational health and safety
Mining operations (includes processing/export/etc)
Petroleum operations onshore (includes pipelines)
Exploration activities (includes geo-thermal)
Worker safety/ Community safety and security
Import, export, manufacture, transport, storage and use of dangerous goods; operation of explosives reserves; 24/7 emergency response arrangements; counter-terrorism measures.
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Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994
Dangerous Goods Safety Act 2004
Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources Act 1967
Petroleum Pipelines Act 1969
Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1982
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In addition to inspections, audits, etc –
• Review, develop and amend legislation
• Develop technical standards and safety policies
• Inform; promote safety; give advice
• Collect, collate, analyse, publish safety data
• Issue licenses and certificates of competency
• Counter-terrorism controls; emergency response; etc
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Required expertise Petroleum engineering
Process engineering
Electrical, mechanical and structural engineering
Geotechnical engineering
Mining engineering
Radiation
Health management
Explosives and dangerous goods
Legal
Data management
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Bar is setto match
industry andnature of
operations
Less prescriptiveregulation and
external control
BETTER SAFETY PERFORMANCEMORE TRUST
Self-regulation
Meta-regulation (”safety case”)
Performance-based standards
Prescriptive standards
Prohibition
POOR SAFETY PERFORMANCELESS TRUST
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Risks?
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Government decision of August 2009
• Adopt “best practice” safety regulation
• Drive cultural change across industry
• Introduce a cost recovery regime to secure sufficient resources for effective regulation
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“best practice” regulation –
• Must cover all types of organisation while encouraging improvement among good and poor performers.
• Must apply evidence-based decision making
• Must be transparent, consistent and pro-active
Whilst ensuring that responsibility rests with risk-generator.
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“best practice” safety regulation requires:
• Sufficient incentives for whole of industry (including those reluctant to comply)
• Highly skilled and appropriately resourced regulatory inspectorate
• A sound legislative base
• Industry recognising that it has the primary role
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Best Practice is:
▲ Proactive approachto safety regulation
▲ Less prescription, withsafety case the ‘norm’
▲ Data-driven decision making
▲ Improved transparency/communication▲ Nationally recognised staff competency
▲ Internationally recognised performance measures
Com
petency
Legislation
Cap
acity