Explosives Regulations, 2013

Marginal note:Maintenance

• 98 (1) Every mobile process unit must be maintained in good operating condition.

• Marginal note:Servicing during use

  (2) Minor servicing of a mobile process unit may be done while it is in use if the following requirements are met:

  • (a) the servicing is routine and integral to the use of the unit; and

  • (b) the servicing is done by a competent person.

• Marginal note:Work permit

  (3) All other maintenance or repair work, if it is done at the factory, must be carried out by a competent person who has been issued a work permit by the licence holder.

• Marginal note:Contents of work permit

  (4) A work permit must set out the procedures to be followed during the maintenance or repair work and the measures that must be taken before, during and after the work to eliminate any possibility of an ignition.

• Marginal note:Decontamination

  (5) A mobile process unit must be decontaminated at the factory before it is taken outside the factory for maintenance or repair.

• Marginal note:Work done outside factory

  (6) If maintenance or repair work is done outside the factory on manufacturing equipment that is in or on a mobile process unit and whose malfunction could increase the likelihood of an ignition (for example, pumps or safety trips), it must be done by a competent person.

• Marginal note:Repairs at site of breakdown

  (7) In the case of a mechanical breakdown of a vehicle used as a mobile process unit, repairs to the vehicle may be done at the location of the breakdown only if doing the repair work will not increase the likelihood of an ignition and the work is done by a competent person.

• Marginal note:Unloading and towing

  (8) If doing the repair work could increase the likelihood of ignition, the unit must be towed to the factory for repair.

• Marginal note:Logbook and work permits

  (9) A logbook of all maintenance and repair work done to a mobile process unit, or to any manufacturing equipment in or on the unit whose malfunction could increase the likelihood of an ignition, must be kept for two years after the date on which the last entry is made. The work permits for the maintenance and repair work must also be kept for two years after the date on which the work is completed. The logbook and permits must be kept at the factory.

• Marginal note:Progressive cavity pump logbook

  (10) For each progressive cavity pump, a separate logbook that sets out the operating history of the pump and the maintenance and repair work done to it must be kept at the factory for the life of the pump.