Incident Report

Subject:                  UK Competent Authority Publishes Delivery Guide on Ageing Plant

Date of Email report:   Mon 19/07/2010

Report Detail:

As the COMAH Competent Authority (CA) in the UK, the HSE has identified Ageing Plant as a strategic priority within its work plan for 2010-2011. A recently published Ageing Plant Delivery Guide (DG) underpins the programme to prevent, control and mitigate major accidents at COMAH sites. The DG is provided to help identify those sites where ageing plant may be a priority and to assess the extent of ageing issues and how well these are being managed. The programme includes an intelligence gathering exercise at sites where the CA has little or no information on ageing plant (July – November 2010) and an inspection programme (June 2010 onwards). 

Additional Documentation:

Source: HSE. http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/ca-guides.htm