Energy Isolation

• Operatives/Employees working with Processes
• Operatives/Employees working with Machines or equipment in which the sudden release of energy could cause injury or damage
• Persons with Technical executive function
• Qualified Supervisors within an Energy Isolation environment
• Any other plant personnel directly responsible for performing Safe Process Isolations
• Any other plant personnel indirectly responsible for performing Safe Process Isolations.  Such persons may include Senior Operational Managers and anyone who monitors, audits and reviews isolations systems

·         Demonstrate familiarity with the principals of Energy Isolation

·         Demonstrate a basic understanding energy sources

·         Demonstrate a basic awareness of procedures standards and practices

·         Understand the need for implementing Safe Systems of Work

·         Understand common terminology related to isolations and control

·         Understand common energy hazards

·         Understand the differences between Best Practice and Minimum requirement for Energy Isolation

·         Understand the purpose, principles and practices of isolation procedures and safety rules – for their own role, and for others involved in the operation of isolations systems and the legal issues associated with same.

·         Identify Primary Isolation practices versus Positive Isolation practices; including where and when each is used. Also understand industry terms associated with these objectives.

·         Identify the different pieces of equipment used in positive isolation including where and when they should be utilized.

·         Describe the Roles and Responsibilities with achieving safe and reliable process isolation.

·         Describe the stages involved in achieving safe process isolations and demonstrate their ability to design and implement the various forms of process isolations in a range of scenarios.

·         Demonstrate their ability to safely re-instate plant.