Tri-State Meter & Regulator Services, Inc.

Training & Development Division

"TURN KEY"

Operator Qualification Training and Qualification Program.

Operator Qualification Written Plan and Database

Customized Gas Operator Qualification Written Plan

A. Operator Qualification Final Rule & Appendix D, CFR 49, Part 192, Subpart N.

B. Designed and applied as safe engineering practice methods

C. Designed for full Governmental compliance. Addresses:

             1. Changes to the rule.

             2. Changes to local and state code requirements.

             3. Changes to Operating and Maintenance procedures.

            4. Changes to technology.

            5. Changes to equipment issues

            6. Changes to contractors and sub-contractors accountability to the Rule.

            7. Changes as required through labor union issues.

            8. Changes as to post incidents/accidents.

           9. Changes to program training and testing. Re-invention of  program  to  address each concurrent frequency.

Operator Qualification Covered Task List

A. Full CFR 49, Part 191, 192, Subpart N and 195 reference based.

Operator Qualification Employee Matrix Database

A. Employee and covered task list cross laden flow matrix. (Identification database.)

Operator Qualification Covered Task Performance Evaluation List

A. Detailed Covered Task Performance Duties List w/CFR 49, 192, Subpart N reference.

B. Detailed Covered Task Performance Abnormal Operating Conditions List.

Operator Qualification Covered Task Evaluation Methods Matrix and Frequency Identification List

A. Identified Training and Testing Methods.

B. Flexible Testing Grid applications.

C. Addresses learning disabilities in the work force w/discrete and private testing.

D. Addresses educational disabilities. (Lopez & Associates Psychologist Testing Methods)

Covered Task Employee Information Records Form

A. Employee identification records database w/schedule flagging (testing/re-testing).

B. Lifetime monitoring (data files through attrition kept post/5 years).

C. Contractor and sub-contractor identification records database. Gas Operator’s website access password page to contractors qualification verification.

Operator Qualification List of Qualified Evaluators

A. Trainers and evaluators are all qualified training specialists with actual natural gas field experience.

B. Trainers are Lopez & Associates Certified as well as Assessment Level I & II

C. All of our trainers and evaluators are engineering and technical college instructors.

D. All of our trainers and evaluators are utility management, engineering or training specialists in the natural gas industry.

E. All of our trainers and evaluators are all current and former speakers for various natural gas associations and agency schools and conferences.

Operator Qualification Performance and Incident Report Form

A. Pre and post incident and accident follow-up forms.

   1. Public Service Commission or Regulatory authority incident investigation form.

   2. Post incident follow-up training and re-qualification.

Operator Qualification Pre-Test Evaluation Form

A. Preview training aide forms.

Operator Qualification Post-Test Evaluation Form

A. Detailed evaluation assessment form.

Identified Covered Task List for each job description

A. Covered task list is job/task oriented.

B. Covered task list engineered and aligned in conjunction with the following:

   1. Pipeline Safety Regulations/Code of Federal Regulations 49, Part 192, Subpart N. and  195.

    2. Operating and Maintenance Procedures

   3. Gas Service Policy Manual.

   4. Emergency/Disaster Plan.

   5. Engineering documentation/definitions and clarification. (Symbols and notations)

   6. Job/task descriptions.

   7. Gas Agencies publication/RSPA/GRI/GAMA/AGA/APGA

NOTE: Non-covered task issues included as identified to be of critical importance to the covered task evaluation.

Customized Covered Task Evaluation Field Check (each covered task)

Covered Task Evaluation Field Check Pre-test

Covered Task Evaluation Field Check Post-test

Covered Task Evaluation Field Check Re-test

Covered Task Evaluation schedule for testing and re-testing of all affected personnel.

A. Customized database for each gas operator.

   1. Employee and covered task list cross laden flow matrix. Evaluation and re-evaluation database notification flagging.

    2. Evaluation records form updates.

Employee documentation and record keeping.

A. Employee Matrix schedule

B. Employee Information Records w/notification flagging evaluations and re-evaluations.

C. Evaluation Records forms w/employee links (Public Service Inspectors Review Booklet).

D. Employee photo identification.

E. Evaluation signature matching identification.

Records and documentation of Contractor and Sub-Contractor qualifications

A. Maintained as per the Gas Operator bidding and contracting policies.

The full training package is comprised to achieve a complete and functioning utility to address complete and utter compliance of the Operator Qualification Final Rule. The training program shall include the following topics:

1. Covered tasks as related to the CFR 49, Part 192 so described in the Operator Qualification Final Rule.

2. Engineering safe practices.

3. Operating and Maintenance Procedures.

4. Emergency Procedures.

5. Dispatchers accountability to gas operator emergency responding personnel. (Control Room, SCADA, Police and Fire, 911 and 311, pager systems, cell phone systems, after hours dispatching personnel.)

6. Code issues as related to the continued safe operation of the pipeline facility. Addressed in the code training phases are as follows:

    a. SBCCI (Standard Gas Code 88, 94, 99).

   b. NFPA 54/ANSI Z223.1 (National Fire Protection Association 54) high-pressure natural gas issues.

    c. International Fuel Gas Code 2000

   d. Pipeline Safety Regulation/CFR 49

7. Service policy agreements consumer/gas operator.

8. Engineering standards and system operations/measurement.

9. Policy and procedures as related to service agreements.

NOTE: Our goal is to provide accountability awareness and qualification for the gas operator in order to address and provide public safety. Providing the gas operator with the knowledge needed to coordinate the operations of the utility and address all concerns. The comprehensive training and evaluation of the operator is imperative in order to satisfy the intent of the Operator Qualification Final Rule. The "Rule" was designed to aide and assist the gas operator and the consumer as well as provide the public with a responding qualified work force. This is a law we can all live with and benefit from for years to come. Let us provide the customized training you want and need. Use this as an opportunity to receive the training you have always wanted. We feel we have one of the premiere training groups ever assembled for the natural gas industry. Let us share this experience with you and your personnel.

Remember, the Operator of the Pipeline Facility will never have the burden of maintaining an Operator Qualification Training and Evaluation Program. Tri-State Meter and Regulator Service, Training &Development Division maintains and directs all operations and scheduling of the program. Evaluation schedules shall always accommodate the Operator’s schedule.

 

OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE MANUAL

We also offer a customized setup of the Gas Operator’s Operating and Maintenance Manual (O & M) as well as a separate and detailed Emergency Procedures plan for the operator and all personnel. The manuals are complete and customized to the gas operator’s gas system. The manuals are also used as training manuals for emergency response to emergency conditions as they arise. The "Emergency Procedure Manual" can be used as a troubleshooting flow table in addressing emergency conditions. Tri-State will provide updates and changes for the operator’s manuals at no charge to the operator. As new changes to utility safe gas practices or regulatory issues are made, the administrator will send out news letters as well as the changes to be placed in the operator’s manuals. We keep you informed. All the operator is required to do is the annual review of his/her O & M and Emergency Procedures as required through local, state and federal offices. If there are any changes to the manuals the operator will then notify the Tri-State Training &Development Administrator of the changes at which point the changes will be sent to the operator. If the manuals are lost or damaged Tri-State will reissue the manuals to the operator at a maintenance cost only. We take care of all your regulatory needs. Let us help you with what we do best, let us serve you.

 

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