A person directly involved in line breaking operations by either performing work or authoring work to be performed.
What is an Authorized Person?
100
Marks the exact location of the Line Break by painting or tagging.
What is the Owning Department?
100
Appendix D
What is the Line Breaking PPE Table?
100
Completed in the field WITH crafts persons and equipment owners present
What is the Line Breaking permit?
100
SOP or JSA or if not available a Non-routine Plugged Equipment Clearing Checklist or Line Breaking Permit.
What is required when clearing routine plugs or blockages?
200
Recognizes where line breaking is taking place and maintains a safe distance.
What is an Affected Employee/Contractor?
200
May be necessary to determine if internal configuration (baffles, standpipes, packing, etc) may prevent complete drainage of materials.
What are drawings?
200
Escalate the lack of secondary isolation to perform a feasibility study for installation
What is Engineering?
200
Issued no more than two (2) hours prior to the first line break.
What is a Line Break permit?
200
Steaming, External heating (no open flames), pressurizing to atmosphere, flushing, vacuum, mechanical application (rodding).
What are approved methods of removing plugs in lines?
300
Participates in pre-job discussion and he completion of Line Breaking permit.
What is an Owning Department (Process Owner)?
300
This person traces the equipment to verify that all potential energy sources have been identified and isolated according to the sites procedure for LTT.
What is a Permit Issuer?
300
Ensures the suitable containers/resources are available to collect and properly dispose of process materials.
What is the Process Owner?
300
Suspended
What happens to a Line Breaking permit if a plant emergency affects an area other than where work is being performed?
300
Partial opening of closed lines, vessels or systems caused by the removal or loosening of mechanical fasteners, joints, or welds, or cutting or sawing into closed systems.
What is a breach?
400
Provides technical guidance to ensure effective training.
What is a HSE Leader?
400
A line break containing check valves and an isolation device where liquid/pressure cannot be safely bled.
What is a First Break?
400
Tested for function prior to work and less than 10 seconds from work area
What is a Safety Eye/Face/Shower?
400
<5% Lower Explosive Limit (LEL).
What reading is required as a permit condition when monitoring is required for lines in flammable or combustible service?
400
A process to ensure competency of permit issuers.
What is the Life Critical Program Certification?
500
Maintains a safe distance from Line Break or wears PPE.
What is a Standby Observer?
500
Use a hot tapping or on-stream welding procedure.
What is when isolation cannot be performed?
500
Safety Shower and Eye/Face Wash
What is required to work simultaneously?
500
Review the permit with oncoming relief permit issuer and at least one Authorized Craftsperson.
What is required when a Permit Issuer must be relieved prior to the end of shift?