3.5. Process Safety
Unipro PJSC operates 39 hazardous industrial facilities (HIF) registered in the state register of hazardous industrial facilities as required by Federal Law No. FZ-116 “On Industrial Safety of Hazardous Industrial Facilities” and assigned a relevant hazard class (Registration Certificate А58-70689).
The Company ensures control over the operation of HIF in accordance with Unipro PJSC Regulation on the Process Control over Compliance with the Industrial Safety Requirements at Hazardous Industrial Facilities (approved by Order of the Chief Executive Officer No. 145 dated 2 October 2018) through a 4-step process as per the annual production control plan.
All HIFs were insured in accordance with the Rules of Third-Party Liability Insurance against Damage Resulting from Accidents at Hazardous Industrial Facilities for the Owners of Hazardous Industrial Facilities.
HIF distribution by hazard class
Pursuant to the requirements of Federal Law No. 116-FZ “On Industrial Safety of Hazardous Industrial Facilities” dated 21 July 1997 (Article 11) and Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 536 dated 26 June 2013 “On Approval of the Requirements for Documentary Support of Industrial Safety Management Systems” for hazard class II hazardous industrial facilities, the Company developed and adopted the following instruments:
- “Unipro PJSC Statement on Industrial Safety Policy” (adopted by Order of the Chief Executive Officer No. 202 dated 8 September 2016);
- Company Regulation “Unipro PJSC Industrial Safety Management System” STO UBP-P-25 (adopted by Order of the Chief Executive Officer No. 146 dated 2 October 2018).
To ensure safe and reliable operation of HIFs, compliance with the legal requirements, and timely control of diagnostic and routine procedures by Unipro PJSC, the Company introduced the Industrial Safety Management Automated Information System (ISMAIS) in 2017.
Process safety improvement results in 2018
Consistent modernisation of ISMAIS enables Unipro PJSC to ensure a more efficient management of industrial safety business processes, reveal and correct all irregularities promptly, and plan its process safety efforts.
The introduction of ISMAIS enabled a comprehensive audit of the technical documentation for industrial safety compliance with respect to the totality of the hardware operated by the Company (3,537 items of equipment), buildings and structures (1,087 items), hydraulic structures (43 items).
ISMAIS is provided with information and control modules for a variety of industrial safety aspects: staff performance review, oversight authorities’ inspections, internal audit, plans and activities, HPF, hydraulic structures, hardware, industrial buildings and structures, production control and industrial safety data.
Moreover, additional modules were introduced in 2018:
Diagnostic procedures
Electrical modules
Check lists
Events
Production control electronic log
Distribution of HIFs, hardware, buildings and structures, and hydraulic structures in 2018
|
HIF |
Hardware |
Buildings & structures |
Hydraulic structures |
|
|
Yaivinskaya GRES |
8 |
535 |
134 |
12 |
|
Surgutskaya GRES-2 |
6 |
1,020 |
219 |
1 |
|
Berezovskaya GRES |
6 |
882 |
163 |
26 |
|
Shaturskaya GRES |
14 |
723 |
463 |
1 |
|
Smolenskaya GRES |
5 |
377 |
108 |
3 |
|
Total |
39 |
3,537 |
1,087 |
43 |
Therefore, ISMAIS enables Unipro PJSC to:
- ensure an efficient operation of the industrial safety management system (ISMS) through ongoing and prompt analysis of the situation, forecasting, and prompt managerial decision-making;
- schedule and control activities and steps in ISMS;
- conduct the performance testing of the ISMS functions, schedule and control the necessary corrective actions;
- control legal compliance and integrated management of operational risks relating to industrial safety;
- upgrade the employees’ skills in industrial safety;
In 2018, government oversight authorities inspected Unipro PJSC on 17 occasions. The number of irregularities revealed by these inspections was 47.6% lower as compared to last year.
Provision of security and anti-terrorism measures at facilities
A constant threat of wrongful acts and trespassing calls for much stricter requirements to the provision of security and anti-terrorism measures at the facilities of the fuel and energy complex.
In 2018, Unipro PJSC took consistent effort to upgrade the physical protection systems of its branches in close cooperation with anti-terrorist commissions of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation.
With a view to testing the performance of the physical protection systems of facilities, the Company held training activities jointly with the representatives of the local offices of the Federal Security Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs, and EMERCOM of Russia that involved the testing of procedures used by the Company’s facilities to implement legal requirements to the provision of security at the facilities of the fuel and energy complex.
Over the course of 2018, federal government supervision (oversight) authorities
conducted scheduled inspections at all facilities of Unipro PJSC that confirmed that
all the activities and measures implemented by the Company comply with the legal requirements.
The activities aimed at providing security and anti-terrorism measures at the Company’s facilities ensured major improvements in Unipro PJSC facilities’ physical protection system, made potential trespassing much more complicated, and enabled the security officers to respond to threats much faster.
Civil defence and emergency control
As the Company prepared for the implementation of civil defence and emergency control activities in 2018, it focused on the improvement of emergency control and response skills.
Unipro branches delivered 58 drills and training sessions, some of them with the involvement of fire-fighting units.
Plans for 2019
In 2019 the Company will design and implement a standard to ensure continuity of business processes and crisis management in compliance with corporate requirements approved by Uniper. The standard will enable identification of threats and assessment of their potential effect on the Company, strengthening resilience in case of incidents and making it easier to take effective corrective measures.