Area technician

Executing skilled worker Area/operation supervisor

Another competent person (normally another area technician)
Figure 1 presents the steps taken before, during and after work on hydrocarbon equipment.
These steps are used as the basis for describing best practice.
This figure and thereby the recommendations on best practice have been structured in such a
way that they coincide with the common guidelines for work permits (WP).
Refer Working Permits Process
Figure 1 starts with "isolation required". This requirement will emerge from the planning of a
work operation on hydrocarbon equipment. In other words, the need for isolation is initiated by
the WP system. Planning and isolation activities are carried out thereafter as shown in the
figure. A new interaction with the WP system occurs in connection with the actual work on the
hydrocarbon equipment. The WP system specifies activities which must be conducted before
the job can begin (a safe Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), approval routine and so forth) and after
the work has been completed (that the job is finished, that the work site has been cleared up
and so forth).
The starting point for the figure is that a need for isolation has been identified - in other words,
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activities to be
performed before work on the hydrocarbon equipment can begin, and then those to be
performed to make sure that the isolations/barriers are correctly removed. Activities are
divided into four steps: planning, isolation, work (on the hydrocarbon equipment) and
reinstatement. Each of these main steps is broken down in turn into subsidiary steps. The righthand side of the figure shows who performs the various activities.

Another competent person (normally another area technician)

Operation supervisor

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Refer to procedure (PSP/operation manual)

Executing skilled worker Area/operation supervisor

Another competent person (normally another area technician

Area technician. A dedicated coordinator where several discipline are involved in the
Operation supervisor

Area technician. A dedicated coordinator where several discipline are involve

Another competent person (area technician/operations supervis

Another competent person (area technician/operations supervisor)

Area technician

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Operations supervisor/Area technician in cooperation with executing s

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