Gas Safety Regulations 2021

The safety management system for gas infrastructure must specify effective means used or to be used by the licensee to ensure that the design, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of the gas infrastructure and any modification of the gas infrastructure, including structural integrity – are adequate for the safety and safe operation of the gas infrastructure; and provide adequate means of achieving isolation of the gas infrastructure, or any part of the gas infrastructure, and pressure control and relief in the event of an emergency; and provide adequate means of gaining access for servicing and maintenance of the gas infrastructure and machinery and other equipment; and provide adequate means of maintaining the structural integrity and operation of the gas infrastructure; and take into account the results of the safety assessment, referred to in regulation 23, for the gas infrastructure.

The safety management system for gas infrastructure must include a maintenance schedule indicating, among other things, the type and frequency of inspections, coating surveys and checks on cathodic protection devices.