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Ten Provisions on Fire and Explosion Protection in Oil and Gas Tank Areas.

Country/Territory
China
Document type
Regulation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Mineral resources
Keyword
Oil Natural gas
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

These Provisions were enacted according to the Work Safety Law and the Regulations on Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals and related regulations, normative documents, and standards, aiming to cope with main problems exposed in recent years in major and typical accidents of oil tank area. The Provisions provide for the prohibited items in daily management, safety facilities, special operations, personnel qualification and other aspects of the oil tank areas. The over-temperature, overpressure and over-liquid-level operation of oil and gas storage tanks and the unauthorized change of storage media are forbidden (art.2). Operation workers are forbidden to leave work sites during the manual waterdraining, tank cut-over and loading and unloading in oil and gas tank areas (art.3).

Full text
Chinese
Website
www.chinasafety.gov.cn