Prepare for winter in the summer
The results of the autumn-winter period of 2019/2020 in the Vitebsk region indicate that, overall, organizations have done a great deal of work to ensure uninterrupted heat supply to the region's housing stock. The clear and coordinated actions of the maintenance personnel, emergency services, and responsible persons of a number of organizations, where anti-emergency drills were conducted as part of a unified safety day, should be noted. Heads of organizations are recommended to pay special attention to the implementation of technical re-equipment programs and strict compliance with the requirements of current legislation. We remind you that to obtain a positive conclusion on the readiness of the heat source for the heating season in the territorial body of Gospromnadzor, the following must be done:
- ensure readiness to bear the specified heat output, indicating the maximum heat output;
- ensure the proper technical condition of boilers, feed, network, make-up, circulation pumps, heaters, and other boiler room equipment necessary for heat supply to consumers;
- ensure the proper technical condition of backup equipment; ensure timely technical inspection of boilers after the expiration of their service life by a Gospromnadzor expert and timely technical inspection by the person responsible for the proper condition and safe operation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory documents.
- ensure technical diagnostics of boilers with expired service life, after repair using welding (incident), at the request of an inspector (expert);
- ensure the implementation of planned repairs of main and auxiliary equipment in the necessary volumes and with quality corresponding to established norms; ensure the readiness of the heat source to perform the temperature schedule at all temperature ranges of the autumn-winter period in the given area;
- ensure compliance with norms- availability of fuel reserves (main and backup) in a quantity ensuring uninterrupted supply of thermal energy;
- availability of a schedule for switching the heat source to a backup fuel type during significant cold snaps or in case of reduced gas supplies to the Republic of Belarus;
- availability of orders appointing persons responsible for the proper condition and safe operation of boilers, and orders (directives) for admitting personnel to operate boiler room equipment;
- availability of operational instructions for personnel operating boiler room equipment, and availability of a thermal diagram;
- conducting training, knowledge checks for responsible persons and personnel, and conducting emergency drills in accordance with the emergency response plan for the boiler room;
- staffing of the boiler room in accordance with the design solution;
- availability of passports for main and auxiliary equipment (boilers (boiler room), safety valves, economizers); registration of boilers (boiler rooms), economizers (boiler rooms) with the territorial department of Gospromnadzor, registration of hazardous production facilities in the state register;
- possession of a license for industrial safety activities;
- ensuring a safe water regime for boiler operation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory documentation and operating instructions;
- availability and proper functioning of boiler protections and automation systems, air monitoring system for CO content (for boiler rooms with gas-using equipment with permanent personnel presence), performance of scheduled maintenance to keep them in proper working order, implementation of measures for installing leak detection devices for shut-off valves of gas-fired boilers;
- conducting regime and adjustment tests of boilers, checks of boiler safety and control systems, and the boiler room water treatment unit within the established deadlines;
>- carrying out technical measures to enable the connection of a mobile emergency boiler house;
- carrying out technical measures to enable the connection of autonomous sources of electrical energy; availability of documents confirming the cleaning of internal heating surfaces of boilers from scale and sludge deposits, adjustment and setting of safety valves, surfaces from ash and slag, and the sound technical condition of gas ducts and chimneys;
- availability of emergency service and heat energy consumer telephone numbers at the boiler house workplace;
- availability of a telephone in the boiler house; Upon fulfillment of all the above-mentioned conditions, the territorial body of Gospromnadzor makes a decision to issue a positive conclusion on the readiness of the heat source for operation in the autumn-winter period of 2020/2021.
- ensure readiness to bear the specified heat output, indicating the maximum heat output;
- ensure the proper technical condition of boilers, feed, network, make-up, circulation pumps, heaters, and other boiler room equipment necessary for heat supply to consumers;
- ensure the proper technical condition of backup equipment; ensure timely technical inspection of boilers after the expiration of their service life by a Gospromnadzor expert and timely technical inspection by the person responsible for the proper condition and safe operation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory documents.
- ensure technical diagnostics of boilers with expired service life, after repair using welding (incident), at the request of an inspector (expert);
- ensure the implementation of planned repairs of main and auxiliary equipment in the necessary volumes and with quality corresponding to established norms; ensure the readiness of the heat source to perform the temperature schedule at all temperature ranges of the autumn-winter period in the given area;
- ensure compliance with norms- availability of fuel reserves (main and backup) in a quantity ensuring uninterrupted supply of thermal energy;
- availability of a schedule for switching the heat source to a backup fuel type during significant cold snaps or in case of reduced gas supplies to the Republic of Belarus;
- availability of orders appointing persons responsible for the proper condition and safe operation of boilers, and orders (directives) for admitting personnel to operate boiler room equipment;
- availability of operational instructions for personnel operating boiler room equipment, and availability of a thermal diagram;
- conducting training, knowledge checks for responsible persons and personnel, and conducting emergency drills in accordance with the emergency response plan for the boiler room;
- staffing of the boiler room in accordance with the design solution;
- availability of passports for main and auxiliary equipment (boilers (boiler room), safety valves, economizers); registration of boilers (boiler rooms), economizers (boiler rooms) with the territorial department of Gospromnadzor, registration of hazardous production facilities in the state register;
- possession of a license for industrial safety activities;
- ensuring a safe water regime for boiler operation in accordance with the requirements of regulatory documentation and operating instructions;
- availability and proper functioning of boiler protections and automation systems, air monitoring system for CO content (for boiler rooms with gas-using equipment with permanent personnel presence), performance of scheduled maintenance to keep them in proper working order, implementation of measures for installing leak detection devices for shut-off valves of gas-fired boilers;
- conducting regime and adjustment tests of boilers, checks of boiler safety and control systems, and the boiler room water treatment unit within the established deadlines;
>- carrying out technical measures to enable the connection of a mobile emergency boiler house;
- carrying out technical measures to enable the connection of autonomous sources of electrical energy; availability of documents confirming the cleaning of internal heating surfaces of boilers from scale and sludge deposits, adjustment and setting of safety valves, surfaces from ash and slag, and the sound technical condition of gas ducts and chimneys;
- availability of emergency service and heat energy consumer telephone numbers at the boiler house workplace;
- availability of a telephone in the boiler house; Upon fulfillment of all the above-mentioned conditions, the territorial body of Gospromnadzor makes a decision to issue a positive conclusion on the readiness of the heat source for operation in the autumn-winter period of 2020/2021.