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Volume 53, No. 3

B.C. Reg. 46/2010

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 23, 2010

B.C. Reg. 46/2010 , deposited February 23, 2010, pursuant to the SAFETY STANDARDS ACT [Section 88]. Ministerial Order M48/2010, dated February 18, 2010.

I, Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social Development, order that the Power Engineers, Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 104/2004, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— R. COLEMAN, Minister of Housing and Social Development .

Schedule

Section 2 (1) of the Power Engineers, Boiler, Pressure Vessel and Refrigeration Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 104/2004, is amended by adding the following definition:

"professional engineer" means a person registered under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act as a professional engineer; .

Section 6 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(

l) a low pressure thermal fluid plant with a boiler capacity greater than 150 m 2 if the plant is equipped with an automated control system that

(

i) monitors performance of the plant, including all systems related to automated operation, and automatically alters the operation of the plant to ensure it is operating safely, including during start up and shut down operations,

(ii) is designed so that any failure of the automated control system will cause the plant to go to a predetermined safe state, and

(iii) has been registered by a provincial safety manager in accordance with

section 84.1.

Section 65 is repealed and the following substituted:

Requirements for a certificate of qualification as a safety officer

65 A provincial safety manager May issue a certificate of qualification as a safety officer for the purposes of this regulation to an individual who

(

a) holds a valid National Board Commission as a boiler and pressure vessel inspector issued by the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors, or

(

b) in the opinion of the provincial safety manager, meets the qualification criteria for the commission referred to in paragraph (a).

Section 74 (1) is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(

d) if the plant has an automated control system described in

section 6 (l) (

i) and (ii), functional testing and maintenance programs for the system are carried out.

Section 79 is amended by adding " or a plant described in

section 6 (l) " after " pressure vessel plant ".

6 The following

section is added:

Registration of control systems

84.1

(1) In this section, "automated control system" means an automated control system described in

section 6 (l) (

i) and (ii) and includes the commissioning programs, functional testing programs and maintenance programs for the system.

(2) The design of all automated control systems, including all alterations of previously registered designs, must be registered with a provincial safety manager.

(3) To register a design or an alteration to a design, the owner of the automated control system or the engineer, manufacturer or designer of the automated control system, if the engineer, manufacturer or designer is acting as an agent for the owner, must submit, for review by a provincial safety manager, an application that includes

(

a) all design specifications, including information respecting safeguards, controls, interlocks, logic data and system commissioning and testing,

(

b) an approval by a professional engineer of the automated control system's design, and

(

c) any additional information with respect to the automated control system required by a provincial safety manager.

(4) Registration of a design or an alteration to a design must be obtained before installation is commenced.

(5) If, in the opinion of a provincial safety manager, a design registered under subsection (2) is subsequently found to be defective in any detail, the design must be revised by the person who submitted the design and those revisions must be approved by the provincial safety manager.

(6) The registration of a design or an alteration to a design does not relieve the professional engineer or equipment manufacturer of liability for the design and the installation of the automated control system.

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