{"id":844,"date":"2016-09-09T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T20:00:12","slug":"when-does-a-car-seal-program-make-sense-for-industrial-ammonia-refrigeration-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"When does a Car-Seal program make sense for Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off: What is a Car-Seal program and what does it do?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Car-Seal program is designed, implemented and managed to ensure that safety-critical valves within the covered process are maintained in their safety-critical position \/ setting during normal system operation. If the position \/ setting of a safety-critical valve is to be changed, it provides a procedure that functions as an administrative control to make this change safely.<\/p>\n

Car-Sealing a valve OPEN or CLOSED is used ONLY if opening or closing that valve during normal operation could result in a Severe Safety Incident. Car-Sealed valves are usually\u00a0designated on the P&ID’s as Car-Sealed OPEN (CSO) and Car-Sealed CLOSED (CSC), and are physically identified as Car-Sealed in its designated position \/ setting.<\/p>\n

In order to more readily identify the location of the intended Car-Seals in the field, as well as the NORMALLY SAFE valve position \/ setting, the tags will be secured to the valve using COLOR CODED PLASTIC TIE STRAPS.<\/p>\n

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To put it bluntly: Car-Seals are placed on valves where REALLY bad things can happen if you move them from their normal (Safety Critical) position without taking precautions!<\/p>\n

Where are they used in Industrial Ammonia Refrigeration Systems?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

You should already have at least two Administrative Controls (safeguards) meant to minimize the hazard of opening and closing the wrong valves: Written SOPs and Trained Operators. The Car-Seal program is meant to add a third layer of protection on top of those two when changing the position of the valve could reasonably result in a Severe Safety Incident.<\/p>\n

Severe Safety Incident<\/u> – <\/strong>shall mean any incident which could result in any one or more of the following results:<\/em><\/p>\n