SCHEDULE 8
Rule 68-J (9)(1)
INFORMATION TO BE FURNISHED IN A SAFETY REPORT
1. The name and address of the person furnishing the information.
2. Description of the industrial activity:-
a. site.
b. construction design.
c. protection zones (explosion protection, separation instances)
d. accessibility of plant
e. maximum number of person working on the site and particularly of those persons exposed to the hazard.
3. Description of the processes, namely-
a. technical purpose of the Industrial activity.
b. basic principles of the technological process.
c. process and safety - related data for the individual process stages.
d. process description.
e. safety - related types of utilities.
4. Description of the hazardous chemicals, namely-
a. Chemical (Quantities substance data on physical and chemical properties, safety related) data on explosive limits, flash-point thermal stability, texicological data and threshold limit values, lethal concentrations.)
b. the form in which the chemicals may occur or into which they may be transformed in the event of abnormal conditions.
c. the degree of purity of the hazardous chemical.
5. Information on the Preliminary Hazard Analysis namely -
a. type of accident
b. system element of foreseen events that can lead to a major accident
c. hazards
d. safety - relevant components.
6. Description of safety - relevant units, among others -
a. special design criteria
b. controls and alarms
c. pressure relief systems
d. quick acting valves
e. collecting tanks/dump tanks
f. sprinkler systems
g. fire protection.
7. Information on the hazard assessment, namely -
a. Identification of hazards,
b. the causes of accidents,
c. assessment of hazards according to their occurrence frequency,
d. assessment of accident consequences,
e. safety systems,
f. known accident history.
8. Description of information on organisational systems used to carry on industrial activity safely, namely -
a. maintenance and inspection schedules,
b. guidelines for the training of personnel,
c. allocation and delegation of responsibility for plant safety,
d. Implementation of safety procedures.
9. Information on assessment of the consequences of major accidents, namely -
a. assessment of the possible release of hazardous chemical or of energy,
b. possible dispertion of released chemicals.
c. assessment of the effects of the releases (size of the affected area, health effects, property damage)
10. Information on the mitigation of major accidents, namely -
a. fire brigade,
b. alarm systems,
c. emergency plan containing system of organisation used to fight the emergency, the alarm and the communication routes, guidelines for fighting the emergency, examples of possible accident sequences,
d. co-ordination with the District Collector or the District Emergency Authority and its off site emergency plan.
e. notification of the nature and scope of the hazard in the event of an accident,
f. antidotes in the event of a release of hazardous chemical.
11. In the said rules, after rule 68-J, the following new rule shall be inserted; namely: