Pipeline Safety Management System Requirements

1 Pipeline Safety Management System Requirements API RECOMMENDED PRACTICE 1173 FIRST EDITION, JUNE 2014 DRAFT VERSION 11 .2 Table of Contents Special Notes Foreword .. Introduction .. Goal of the Document .. Plan-Do-Check-Act .. Recommended Practice for Pipeline Safety Management System Requirements 1 Scope 2 Normative Reference 3 Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations .. Terms and Definitions .. Abbreviations .. 4 Essential Pipeline Safety Management System Elements .. 5.

2 Leadership and Management Commitment .. General .. Goals and Objectives .. Planning Responsibilities of Leadership .. Top Management .. Management .. Responsibility, Accountability and Authority .. Making Communication, Risk Reduction and Continuous Improvement Routine .. 6 Stakeholder Engagement .. 7 Risk Management .. General Data Gathering and Evaluation of Quality Risk Identification and Assessment .. Risk Prevention and Mitigation.

3 Periodic Analysis .. Analysis Report .. 8 Operational Controls .. Operating Procedures .. Content of Operating Procedures .. Completion of Operating Procedures .. Periodic Review .. Safe Work Pratices .. System Integrity Manufacturing and Construction .. Manufacturing and Construction Inspection .. Maintenance Systems .. Testing and Inspection .. Management of Change (MOC) .. General .. Types of Change .. Elements of Management of Change process .

4 Managing the Changes Outsourcing and 9 Incident Investigation, Evaluation and Lessons Learned .. Investigation of Incidents .. General .. Investigation .. Follow-up and Communication of Lessons Learned .. Learning From Past Events Learning From External 10 Safety Assurance .. General .. Audit and Assessment .. General .. Performance of Audit and Audit and Assessment Review and Closure .. Employee Reporting and Analysis of Data.

5 Performance Evaluation of Safety Culture Evaluation of 11 Management Review and Continuous Improvement .. Management Review .. General .. Input Requirements .. Output Requirements .. Continuous Improvement .. Evaluation of 12 Emergency Preparedness and 13 Competence, Awareness and Training .. 14 Documentation and Record Keeping .. Control of Documents .. Control of Records .. Pipeline Safety Management System Documents Procedures .. 15 Executing a Pipeline Safety Management System Strengthens Safety Culture General Contribution of Leadership and Management Commitment Contribution of Stakeholder Engagement Contribution of Risk Management Contribution of Operational Controls Contribution of Incident Investigation, Evaluations and Lessons Learned Contribution of Safety Assurance Contribution of Management Review Contribution of Emergency Preparedness and Response Contribution of Competency.

6 Awareness and Training Contribution of Document Control Bibliography .. Special Notes API publications necessarily address problems of a general nature. With respect to particular circumstances, local, state, and federal laws and regulations should be reviewed. Neither API nor any of API s employees, subcontractors, consultants, committees, or other assignees make any warranty or representation, either express or implied, with respect to the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the information contained herein, or assume any liability or responsibility for any use, or the results of such use, of any information or process disclosed in this publication.

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