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.
Covered
Task Training and Evaluation
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.
BENEFIT
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.