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PESO Consultancy
Since 2008, Peso department found my knowledge and expertise in mastery in various international safety codes and analysis of various critical scenario, they started consulting me for various critical
situations. Especially Mr Yedla supported my views when it came to re-introduction of RIM seal fire protection for all class 'A' petroleum floating roof tanks that too especially with a single party specific model. Somehow officials in OISD were carried away with discounting to go with poly-urethane tubing type sensing arrangement and vouched only metallic insert wire approach. The beauty was that even the OEM was not claiming that this product is suitable for rim seal fire sensing! But OISD thrust that on all end users by incorporating that requirement in OISD 118 in the year 2010.
That was the time the Peso department looked for my services to ensure verification of its absolute incorporation. During that phase two CCEs came in and they were looking for industry support to
counter OISD's insistence on incorporating all their standards as part of Petroleum Rules/SMPV Act.
In 2013, OISD gave 84 recommendations to be introduced in Petroleum rules; that time CCOE Mr PC Srivastava called me to Nagpur to study and analyse the veracity of those recommendations. On detailed scrutiny, I found only 6 or 7 of them were worth consideration and the rest will completely counter the existing statutory rules. With my practical experience and knowledge I could highlight the issue against each recommendation and the Department could effectively defend the existing rules and countered them. Fortunately ,since that was the Govt. transition stage, all those recommendations by OISD died a natural death. Thus the issue got resolved.
In the midst, as an echo of Jaipur fire accident, there was a proposal from central ministry to enhance the Green Belt from the present 50 M or the fencing around the licensed tankage premises to 250 M !
CCE convened a conference meeting of all petroleum installations stake holders at Nagpur to discuss and arrive at a workable resolution. That point arose, since presently all around any installation/manufacturing complex, mushrooming of several dwelling take place and they fall within LEL limits of the said unit area. When this point was tabled in that conference, every one present countered that how can they become responsible for public dwelling increase and that should be the responsibility of Municipal Corporation/Town Panchayat and industry house cannot cater to free land control. Then this subject was posed to BARC and their legal department to study&advise. Anybody can guess its outcome. That only stopped that recommendation of increase in free space around installations.
The Department gained so much confidence on Reliance Safety Practices and requested our COE-HSEE to give lectures to the Department officials. With the services of M/S TV Venkateswaran,Vivek Bichave and Prashanti Bhupathy, I led a team to Nagpur to conduct those classes. They conducted brief classes on Hazop study, LOPA and Risk Matrix and touched about various probable mitigation measures that can be implemented.to bring to ALARP level. That was a revelation to most of the Department officers who attended. They profusely thanked us for organizing such lectures to elaborate practical aspects of safety studies.
The department officers used to get in touch with me directly to seek reference of any installation for any specific hydrocarbon product, availability of MSDS for some unique chemicals, capacity ratings that prevail in Indian sub continent, advice on some specialty chemicals transportation methodology etc. That led to the drafting the specification for one of Reliance's challenging requirement at JMD!
Contd....
Key Aspects :- Faith, Human relations, Incident analysis, Recognition,Technical issue, Team building, Reputation,
PESO Consultancy
Since 2008, Peso department found my knowledge and expertise in mastery in various international safety codes and analysis of various critical scenario, they started consulting me for various critical
situations. Especially Mr Yedla supported my views when it came to re-introduction of RIM seal fire protection for all class 'A' petroleum floating roof tanks that too especially with a single party specific model. Somehow officials in OISD were carried away with discounting to go with poly-urethane tubing type sensing arrangement and vouched only metallic insert wire approach. The beauty was that even the OEM was not claiming that this product is suitable for rim seal fire sensing! But OISD thrust that on all end users by incorporating that requirement in OISD 118 in the year 2010.
That was the time the Peso department looked for my services to ensure verification of its absolute incorporation. During that phase two CCEs came in and they were looking for industry support to
counter OISD's insistence on incorporating all their standards as part of Petroleum Rules/SMPV Act.
In 2013, OISD gave 84 recommendations to be introduced in Petroleum rules; that time CCOE Mr PC Srivastava called me to Nagpur to study and analyse the veracity of those recommendations. On detailed scrutiny, I found only 6 or 7 of them were worth consideration and the rest will completely counter the existing statutory rules. With my practical experience and knowledge I could highlight the issue against each recommendation and the Department could effectively defend the existing rules and countered them. Fortunately ,since that was the Govt. transition stage, all those recommendations by OISD died a natural death. Thus the issue got resolved.
In the midst, as an echo of Jaipur fire accident, there was a proposal from central ministry to enhance the Green Belt from the present 50 M or the fencing around the licensed tankage premises to 250 M !
CCE convened a conference meeting of all petroleum installations stake holders at Nagpur to discuss and arrive at a workable resolution. That point arose, since presently all around any installation/manufacturing complex, mushrooming of several dwelling take place and they fall within LEL limits of the said unit area. When this point was tabled in that conference, every one present countered that how can they become responsible for public dwelling increase and that should be the responsibility of Municipal Corporation/Town Panchayat and industry house cannot cater to free land control. Then this subject was posed to BARC and their legal department to study&advise. Anybody can guess its outcome. That only stopped that recommendation of increase in free space around installations.
The Department gained so much confidence on Reliance Safety Practices and requested our COE-HSEE to give lectures to the Department officials. With the services of M/S TV Venkateswaran,Vivek Bichave and Prashanti Bhupathy, I led a team to Nagpur to conduct those classes. They conducted brief classes on Hazop study, LOPA and Risk Matrix and touched about various probable mitigation measures that can be implemented.to bring to ALARP level. That was a revelation to most of the Department officers who attended. They profusely thanked us for organizing such lectures to elaborate practical aspects of safety studies.
The department officers used to get in touch with me directly to seek reference of any installation for any specific hydrocarbon product, availability of MSDS for some unique chemicals, capacity ratings that prevail in Indian sub continent, advice on some specialty chemicals transportation methodology etc. That led to the drafting the specification for one of Reliance's challenging requirement at JMD!
Contd....
Key Aspects :- Faith, Human relations, Incident analysis, Recognition,Technical issue, Team building, Reputation,
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