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155Corrosion management#
(1)An operator must ensure that if a safety or environmental hazard would result from the failure due to corrosion — including corrosion from exposure to a sour environment — of any equipment, including process vessels, or of any piping, valves, fittings and structural elements that are part of an installation, that corrosion is prevented and managed throughout the life cycle of the installation.
(2)The operator must develop a corrosion management program that sets out the measures that are necessary to prevent critical failures resulting from corrosion-related degradation and to ensure the continued integrity of safety-critical elements.
(3)The program must
(a)identify all safety-critical elements that are susceptible to degradation by corrosion;
(b)provide for the analysis that is necessary to determine corrosion degradation mechanisms and the limits and failure modes of the safety-critical elements referred to in paragraph (a), taking into account the physical and environmental conditions and chemicals to which it is foreseeable that the safety-critical elements may be exposed;
(c)include measures to prevent corrosion, as far as is practicable, and to mitigate or protect against the effects of corrosion;
(d)provide for the inspection and monitoring of corrosion and of any corrosion protection and prevention systems;
(e)provide for the collection and analysis of baseline and continuous data to monitor corrosion;
(f)provide for the continuous assessment, based on the data and analysis referred to in paragraph (e), of the maintenance activities and schedules referred to in paragraph 159(2)(f) to determine whether those activities and schedules are adequate to ensure corrosion management of safety-critical elements and provide for the modification of those activities and schedules, if necessary;
(g)provide for timely preventive maintenance of any corrosion protection and prevention systems; and
(h)provide for the timely inspection, monitoring and maintenance of safety-critical elements in accordance with the requirements of the maintenance program referred to in paragraphs 159(2)(e) and (f) and for any necessary repair before the limits established in paragraph (b) are reached.
(4)The operator must ensure that the program is implemented and periodically updated, taking into account the data and analysis referred to in paragraph (3)(e).
Federal laws of Canada reproduced under the Reproduction of Federal Law Order (SI/97-5); not the official version. Source: Justice Laws Website.