Federal Law of the Russian Federation No. 116-FZ of 21 July 1997
Unofficial translation. Only the Russian original published in the official sources of the Russian Federation has legal force. This translation is provided for reference and does not replace the official document.
For the purposes of this Federal Law, the following terms are used:
industrial safety of hazardous production facilities (hereinafter also - industrial safety, safety of hazardous production facilities) means the state of protection of the vital interests of the individual and of society against accidents at hazardous production facilities and against the consequences of such accidents;
accident means the destruction of structures and (or) of technical devices used at a hazardous production facility, or an uncontrolled explosion and (or) release of hazardous substances;
incident means a failure or damage of technical devices used at a hazardous production facility, or a deviation from the established regime of the technological process;
technical devices used at a hazardous production facility means machines, process equipment, systems of machines and (or) of equipment, units, apparatus and mechanisms used in the operation of a hazardous production facility;
auxiliary mine rescue teams means non-standing emergency rescue units formed, from among the employees of such organisations, by organisations operating hazardous production facilities at which mining operations are carried out;
safety justification for a hazardous production facility means a document containing information on the results of the assessment of the risk of an accident at the hazardous production facility and of the threat associated with it, the conditions for the safe operation of the hazardous production facility, and the requirements for the operation, capital repair, mothballing and decommissioning of the hazardous production facility;
industrial safety management system means a set of interrelated organisational and technical measures carried out by an organisation operating hazardous production facilities for the purpose of preventing accidents and incidents at hazardous production facilities and of containing and eliminating the consequences of such accidents;
technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility means the introduction of new technology, the automation of the hazardous production facility or of its individual parts, or the modernisation or replacement of technical devices used at the hazardous production facility, where these result in a change to the technological process at the hazardous production facility;
examination of industrial safety means the determination of whether the objects of examination of industrial safety listed in paragraph 1 of Article 13 of this Federal Law conform to the industrial safety requirements applicable to them;
expert in the field of industrial safety means a natural person who meets the qualification requirements of the professional standard or has been certified under the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation, who possesses specialist knowledge in the field of industrial safety and who meets the requirements established by the federal norms and rules in the field of industrial safety.
1. Hazardous production facilities under this Federal Law are enterprises or their workshops, sections, sites, and also other production facilities listed in Appendix 1 to this Federal Law.
2. Hazardous production facilities shall be subject to registration in the State Register in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
3. Depending on the level of potential hazard that accidents at them present to the vital interests of the individual and of society, hazardous production facilities are divided, in accordance with the criteria set out in Appendix 2 to this Federal Law, into four hazard classes: hazard class I - hazardous production facilities of extremely high hazard; hazard class II - hazardous production facilities of high hazard; hazard class III - hazardous production facilities of medium hazard; hazard class IV - hazardous production facilities of low hazard.
4. A hazard class is assigned to a hazardous production facility upon its registration in the State Register.
5. The head of an organisation operating hazardous production facilities is liable, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, for the completeness and accuracy of the information submitted for registration in the State Register of hazardous production facilities.
1. Industrial safety requirements are the conditions, prohibitions, restrictions and other mandatory requirements contained in this Federal Law, in other federal laws, in the regulatory legal enactments of the President of the Russian Federation and the regulatory legal enactments of the Government of the Russian Federation adopted in accordance with them, and also in the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety.
2. Industrial safety requirements shall comply with the norms in the fields of protection of the population and territories against emergency situations, sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population, environmental protection, ecological safety, fire safety, labour protection and construction, and also with the mandatory requirements established in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation.
3. Industrial safety requirements for facilities using atomic energy are established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of the use of atomic energy adopted in accordance with Federal Law No. 170-FZ of 21 November 1995 'On the Use of Atomic Energy'.
4. Where the design, construction, operation, reconstruction, capital repair, technical re-equipment, mothballing or decommissioning of a hazardous production facility requires a departure from the industrial safety requirements established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety, or where such requirements are insufficient and (or) have not been established, the persons preparing the design documentation for the construction or reconstruction of the hazardous production facility, the documentation for the technical re-equipment of the hazardous production facility, or the design documentation for the capital repair of a linear facility may establish industrial safety requirements for the operation, capital repair, technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of that facility in the safety justification for the hazardous production facility. The safety justification for a hazardous production facility, and any amendments made to it, shall be subject to examination of industrial safety. The safety justification for a hazardous production facility, and any amendments made to it, are approved by the developer or the technical client (where the hazardous production facility is being designed), or by the head of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility, subject to a positive conclusion of the examination of industrial safety. The safety justification for a hazardous production facility and the amendments made to it (if any) are sent by the organisation operating the hazardous production facility to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety upon registration of the hazardous production facility in the State Register, and, where a capital repair of a linear facility or a technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility is carried out applying the safety justification for the hazardous production facility, within ten working days from the day of their completion. Amendments made to the safety justification for a hazardous production facility registered in the State Register are sent by the organisation operating such hazardous production facility to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety within ten working days from the day of their approval.
5. To promote compliance with industrial safety requirements, the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety may approve safety guides containing explanations of industrial safety requirements and recommendations on their application.
1. Legal regulation in the field of industrial safety is exercised by this Federal Law, by other federal laws, by the regulatory legal enactments of the President of the Russian Federation and the regulatory legal enactments of the Government of the Russian Federation adopted in accordance with them, and also by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety approved by the body for the state regulation of industrial safety.
2. Where an international treaty of the Russian Federation establishes rules other than those provided for by this Federal Law, the rules of the international treaty apply. 2.1. Decisions of interstate bodies adopted on the basis of the provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation in an interpretation that contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation shall not be enforced in the Russian Federation. Such a contradiction may be established in the manner determined by federal constitutional law.
3. The Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety establish mandatory requirements for: activities in the field of industrial safety, including requirements for employees of hazardous production facilities and for experts in the field of industrial safety; the safety of technological processes at hazardous production facilities, including the procedure to be followed in the event of an accident or an incident at a hazardous production facility; the safety justification for a hazardous production facility. The establishment of the mandatory requirements contained in the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety, and the assessment of their application, are carried out in accordance with Federal Law No. 247-FZ of 31 July 2020 'On Mandatory Requirements in the Russian Federation'.
1. The body for the state regulation of industrial safety authorised by the Government of the Russian Federation exercises: the functions of developing and implementing state policy in the field of industrial safety; the functions of regulatory and legal regulation in the field of industrial safety; permitting, control and supervisory functions in the field of industrial safety, with the exception of the functions specified in paragraph 2 of this Article.
2. The federal executive bodies in the fields of defence, security, state protection, foreign intelligence, mobilisation preparation and mobilisation, and the execution of criminal sentences: exercise, at the facilities (in the organisations) subordinate to them, special permitting, control and supervisory functions in the field of industrial safety; agree the regulatory legal enactments they adopt in the field of industrial safety, and also coordinate their activities in that field with the body for the state regulation of industrial safety.
3. The powers of the federal executive bodies in the field of industrial safety provided for by this Federal Law may be transferred for exercise to the executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation by resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation in the manner established by Federal Law No. 414-FZ of 21 December 2021 'On the General Principles of the Organisation of Public Power in the Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation'.
1. Activities in the field of industrial safety include the design, construction, operation, reconstruction, capital repair, technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility; the manufacture, installation, setting to work, servicing and repair of technical devices used at a hazardous production facility; and the conduct of examination of industrial safety. Certain activities in the field of industrial safety shall be subject to licensing in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
2. A mandatory requirement for a licence applicant, for the purposes of a decision to grant a licence for the operation of hazardous production facilities, is the holding of documents confirming the putting into operation of the hazardous production facilities, or of positive conclusions of examination of industrial safety in respect of the technical devices used at the hazardous production facilities and of the buildings and structures at the hazardous production facilities, and also, in the cases provided for by the first sub-paragraph of paragraph 2 of Article 14 of this Federal Law, of industrial safety declarations. The licensing authority is not entitled to require the licence applicant to submit those documents where such documents are held by the licensing authority, by bodies providing state services, by bodies providing municipal services, by other state bodies, by local self-government bodies or by organisations subordinate to state bodies or to local self-government bodies, with the exception of the documents included in the list of documents determined by Federal Law No. 210-FZ of 27 July 2010 'On the Organisation of the Provision of State and Municipal Services'. The licensing authority requests such documents (and the information contained in them) from the authorised bodies on its own initiative where the applicant has not submitted them of its own accord. Those documents may be submitted by the licence applicant in the form of electronic documents.
1. The mandatory requirements for technical devices used at a hazardous production facility, and the forms of assessment of their conformity with those mandatory requirements, are established in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on technical regulation.
2. Where a technical regulation does not establish another form of assessment of the conformity of a technical device used at a hazardous production facility with the mandatory requirements for such a technical device, that device shall be subject to examination of industrial safety: before the start of its use at the hazardous production facility. upon expiry of its service life or upon exceeding the number of load cycles of such a technical device established by its manufacturer. where the technical documentation contains no data on the service life of such a technical device, if its actual service life exceeds ten years. following work involving a change to the design or a replacement of the material of the load-bearing elements of such a technical device, or following restoration repair after an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility as a result of which such a technical device was damaged.
3. The Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety may provide for the possibility, the procedure and the time limits for the trial use of technical devices at a hazardous production facility without carrying out examination of industrial safety, subject to compliance with the parameters of the technological process, deviations from which may lead to an accident at the hazardous production facility.
1. The technical re-equipment, capital repair, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility are carried out on the basis of documentation developed in the manner established by this Federal Law, having regard to the legislation on town-planning activities. Where the technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility is carried out simultaneously with its reconstruction, the documentation for the technical re-equipment of such a facility forms part of the corresponding design documentation. Documentation for the mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility shall be subject to examination of industrial safety. Documentation for the technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility shall be subject to examination of industrial safety where that documentation does not form part of the design documentation for such a facility that is subject to examination in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities. The technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility shall not be permitted without a positive conclusion of examination of industrial safety that has been entered, in the established manner, in the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety or, where the documentation for the technical re-equipment of the hazardous production facility forms part of the design documentation for such a facility, without a positive conclusion of the examination of the design documentation for such a facility.
2. Departures from the design documentation for a hazardous production facility in the course of its construction, reconstruction or capital repair, and departures from the documentation for the technical re-equipment, capital repair, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility in the course of its technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning, shall not be permitted. Amendments made to the design documentation for the construction or reconstruction of a hazardous production facility shall be subject to examination of the design documentation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities. Amendments made to the documentation for the mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility shall be subject to examination of industrial safety. Amendments made to the documentation for the technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility shall be subject to examination of industrial safety, except where that documentation forms part of the design documentation subject to examination in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities.
3. In the course of the construction, reconstruction, capital repair, technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility, the organisations that developed the corresponding documentation exercise designer's supervision in the established manner. 3.1. The conformity of constructed or reconstructed hazardous production facilities with the requirements of the technical regulations and of the design documentation is established by a conclusion of the federal executive body authorised to exercise state construction supervision, or of the executive body of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation authorised to exercise state construction supervision, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities.
4. The putting into operation of a hazardous production facility is carried out in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities. In doing so, a check is made of the readiness of the organisation to operate the hazardous production facility and to take action to contain and eliminate the consequences of an accident, and also of whether it holds a compulsory civil liability insurance contract concluded in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on compulsory civil liability insurance of the owner of a hazardous facility for harm caused as a result of an accident at the hazardous facility.
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An organisation operating a hazardous production facility shall: comply with the provisions of this Federal Law, of other federal laws, of the regulatory legal enactments of the President of the Russian Federation and the regulatory legal enactments of the Government of the Russian Federation adopted in accordance with them, and also of the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety. comply with the requirements of the safety justification for the hazardous production facility (in the cases provided for by paragraph 4 of Article 3 of this Federal Law). ensure the safety of the trial use of technical devices at the hazardous production facility in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 7 of this Federal Law. hold a licence for carrying out the particular activity in the field of industrial safety that is subject to licensing in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. notify the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or its territorial body of the commencement of the particular activity in accordance with Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 'On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation'. ensure that the staffing of the hazardous production facility is complete in accordance with the established requirements. admit to work at the hazardous production facility only persons who satisfy the corresponding qualification requirements and who have no medical contraindications to that work. ensure that training and certification of employees in the field of industrial safety are carried out in the cases established by this Federal Law. keep at the hazardous production facility the regulatory legal enactments establishing industrial safety requirements, and also the rules for carrying out work at the hazardous production facility. organise and exercise production control over compliance with industrial safety requirements. create an industrial safety management system and ensure its functioning in the cases established by Article 11 of this Federal Law. ensure the presence and functioning of the necessary instruments and systems for monitoring production processes in accordance with the established requirements. ensure that examination of industrial safety is carried out in respect of the buildings, structures and technical devices used at the hazardous production facility, and also carry out diagnostics, testing and survey of the structures and technical devices used at the hazardous production facility within the established time limits and pursuant to an order issued in the established manner by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or its territorial body. prevent unauthorised persons from entering the hazardous production facility. ensure compliance with the industrial safety requirements for the storage of hazardous substances. develop an industrial safety declaration in the cases established by the first sub-paragraph of paragraph 2 of Article 14 of this Federal Law. conclude a compulsory civil liability insurance contract in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on compulsory civil liability insurance of the owner of a hazardous facility for harm caused as a result of an accident at the hazardous facility. carry out the instructions, directions and orders of the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety, of its territorial bodies and of their officials, issued by them in accordance with their powers. suspend the operation of the hazardous production facility, either independently or by decision of a court, in the event of an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility, and also where newly discovered circumstances affecting industrial safety come to light. carry out actions to contain and eliminate the consequences of accidents at the hazardous production facility, and render assistance to state bodies in investigating the causes of an accident. take part in the technical investigation of the causes of an accident at the hazardous production facility, take measures to eliminate those causes and to prevent similar accidents. analyse the causes of an incident at the hazardous production facility, take measures to eliminate those causes and to prevent similar incidents. inform, in a timely manner and in the established procedure, the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety, its territorial bodies, and also other state authorities, local self-government bodies and the population, of an accident at the hazardous production facility. take measures to protect the life and health of employees in the event of an accident at the hazardous production facility. keep records of accidents and incidents at the hazardous production facility. submit to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or to its territorial body information on the number of accidents and incidents, on the causes of their occurrence and on the measures taken. take measures to remedy the breaches of industrial safety requirements identified as a result of an audit of the industrial safety management system, and adjust the measures for reducing the risk of accidents at the hazardous production facility having regard to the recommendations resulting from such an audit.
2. Employees of a hazardous production facility shall: comply with the provisions of the regulatory legal enactments establishing industrial safety requirements, and also with the rules for carrying out work at the hazardous production facility and the procedure to be followed in the event of an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility. undergo training and certification in the field of industrial safety. immediately notify their immediate superior or, in the established manner, other officials of an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility. suspend work, in the established manner, in the event of an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility. take part, in the established manner, in carrying out work to contain an accident at the hazardous production facility. Sub-paragraph repealed from 1 January 2019. - Federal Law No. 271-FZ of 29 July 2018.
3. This paragraph concerns buildings and structures at a hazardous production facility that are intended for carrying out technological processes, for storing raw materials or products, for moving people and goods, or for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents. A decision on whether those buildings and structures may continue to be operated after expiry of the operating life of those buildings and structures established by the design or technical documentation, or after expiry of the periods established by previously adopted decisions on the possibility of operating those buildings and structures, is taken by the head of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility, or by the head of a separate structural subdivision of such an organisation, on the basis of a positive conclusion of examination of industrial safety of the buildings and structures. That decision, executed on paper or in the form of an electronic document signed with an enhanced qualified electronic signature, contains information on the requisites of that conclusion confirming its inclusion in the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety, and establishes the period of further safe operation of those buildings and structures.
1. To ensure readiness to take action to contain and eliminate the consequences of an accident, an organisation operating a hazardous production facility shall: plan and carry out actions to contain and eliminate the consequences of accidents at the hazardous production facility. conclude servicing contracts with professional emergency rescue services or with professional emergency rescue units and, in the cases provided for by this Federal Law, by other federal laws and by other regulatory legal enactments of the Russian Federation adopted in accordance with them, create its own professional emergency rescue services or professional emergency rescue units, and also non-established emergency rescue units drawn from among its employees. create, at hazardous production facilities of hazard classes I and II at which mining operations are carried out, auxiliary mine rescue teams in the manner established by the federal executive body exercising the functions of developing and implementing state policy and of regulatory and legal regulation in the field of civil defence and of the protection of the population and territories against emergency situations. hold reserves of financial resources and material resources for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. train its employees in the actions to be taken in the event of an accident or an incident at the hazardous production facility. create systems of monitoring, warning, communication and support of action in the event of an accident, and maintain those systems in a serviceable condition.
2. The planning of actions for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents at hazardous production facilities of hazard classes I, II and III that are provided for by paragraphs 1, 4, 5 and 6 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law is carried out by developing and approving plans of actions for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents at such hazardous production facilities. The procedure for developing plans of actions for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents at hazardous production facilities, and the requirements for the content of those plans, are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
1. An organisation operating a hazardous production facility shall organise and exercise production control over compliance with industrial safety requirements in accordance with the requirements established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
2. Information on the organisation of production control over compliance with industrial safety requirements is submitted in written form, or in the form of an electronic document signed with an enhanced qualified electronic signature, to the federal executive bodies in the field of industrial safety or to their territorial bodies annually by 1 April of the corresponding calendar year. The requirements for the form in which information on the organisation of production control over compliance with industrial safety requirements is to be submitted are established by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
3. Organisations operating hazardous production facilities of hazard class I or II shall create industrial safety management systems and ensure their functioning.
4. Industrial safety management systems provide for: the determination of the goals and objectives of the organisations operating hazardous production facilities in the field of industrial safety, and the informing of the public of those goals and objectives. the identification, analysis and forecasting of the risk of accidents at hazardous production facilities and of the threats associated with such accidents. the planning and implementation of measures to reduce the risk of accidents at hazardous production facilities, including where work is performed or services are rendered at hazardous production facilities by third-party organisations or by individual entrepreneurs. the coordination of work to prevent accidents and incidents at hazardous production facilities. the exercise of production control over compliance with industrial safety requirements. the safety of the trial use of technical devices at hazardous production facilities in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 7 of this Federal Law. the timely adjustment of measures to reduce the risk of accidents at hazardous production facilities. the participation of the employees of the organisations operating hazardous production facilities in the development and implementation of measures to reduce the risk of accidents at hazardous production facilities. the information support of the conduct of activities in the field of industrial safety.
5. The requirements for the documentation support of industrial safety management systems are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
6. Organisations operating hazardous production facilities of hazard class I shall ensure that an audit of the industrial safety management systems is carried out. Information on the results of such an audit is submitted annually, by 1 April of the corresponding calendar year, to the collegial management bodies of those operating organisations and to their founders. Restrictions on the access of founders to that information may be established by federal law.
1. A technical investigation of the causes of an accident at a hazardous production facility is carried out in respect of each instance of its occurrence.
2. The technical investigation of the causes of an accident is carried out by a special commission chaired by a representative of the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or of its territorial body. That commission also includes: representatives of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation and (or) of the local self-government body in whose territory the hazardous production facility is located. representatives of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility. representatives of the insurer with which the organisation operating the hazardous production facility has concluded a compulsory civil liability insurance contract in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on compulsory civil liability insurance of the owner of a hazardous facility for harm caused as a result of an accident at the hazardous facility. representatives of the professional emergency rescue services or professional emergency rescue units servicing the hazardous production facility. representatives of the professional association of insurers (where there is no compulsory civil liability insurance contract of the owner of a hazardous facility). other representatives in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
3. The President of the Russian Federation or the Government of the Russian Federation may take a decision to establish a state commission for the technical investigation of the causes of an accident and to appoint the chairman of that commission.
4. The commission for the technical investigation of the causes of an accident may involve in the investigation expert organisations, experts in the field of industrial safety and specialists in the fields of surveys, design, research and development work, the manufacture of equipment and other fields, and also public inspectors in the field of industrial safety.
5. The organisation operating the hazardous production facility, its employees and the organisation that carried out the examination of industrial safety shall provide the commission for the technical investigation of the causes of an accident with all the information necessary for that commission to exercise its powers.
6. The results of the technical investigation of the causes of an accident are entered in a report setting out the causes and circumstances of the accident, the extent of the harm caused, the breaches of industrial safety requirements committed, the persons who committed those breaches and the measures that have been taken to contain and eliminate the consequences of the accident, and containing proposals for the prevention of similar accidents.
7. The materials of the technical investigation of the causes of an accident are sent to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or to its territorial body, to the members of the commission for the technical investigation of the causes of the accident, and also to other interested state bodies.
8. The procedure for carrying out the technical investigation of the causes of an accident and for drawing up the report of the technical investigation of the causes of an accident is established by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
9. The financing of the costs of the technical investigation of the causes of an accident is carried out by the organisation operating the hazardous production facility at which the accident occurred.
1. The following shall be subject to examination of industrial safety: documentation for the mothballing or decommissioning of a hazardous production facility. documentation for the technical re-equipment of a hazardous production facility where that documentation does not form part of the design documentation for such a facility that is subject to examination in accordance with the legislation on town-planning activities. technical devices used at a hazardous production facility, in the cases established by Article 7 of this Federal Law. buildings and structures at a hazardous production facility intended for carrying out technological processes, for storing raw materials or products, for moving people and goods, or for containing and eliminating the consequences of accidents. an industrial safety declaration developed as part of the documentation for the technical re-equipment (where that documentation does not form part of the design documentation for the hazardous production facility that is subject to examination in accordance with the legislation on town-planning activities), mothballing or decommissioning of a hazardous production facility, or a newly developed industrial safety declaration. the safety justification for a hazardous production facility, and also the amendments made to the safety justification for a hazardous production facility.
2. The examination of industrial safety is carried out by an organisation holding a licence to carry out that examination, at the expense of the client of the examination. An organisation holding a licence to carry out examination of industrial safety shall be prohibited from carrying out that examination in respect of a hazardous production facility belonging, by right of ownership or on another lawful basis, to it or to persons forming part of the same group of persons as it within the meaning of the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation. A conclusion of examination of industrial safety prepared in breach of that requirement may not be used for the purposes established by this Federal Law.
3. The examination of industrial safety is carried out in the manner established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety, on the basis of the principles of independence, objectivity, comprehensiveness and completeness of the studies carried out using modern achievements of science and technology.
4. The result of an examination of industrial safety is a conclusion, which is signed by the head of the organisation that carried out the examination of industrial safety and by the expert or experts in the field of industrial safety who took part in carrying out that examination. The requirements for the drawing up of the conclusion of examination of industrial safety are established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety.
5. The conclusion of examination of industrial safety is submitted by the client of the examination to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or to its territorial body, which enters that conclusion in the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety within the time limits established by the regulatory legal enactments specified in paragraph 7 of this Article. Such time limits may not exceed five working days from the day of receipt of the conclusion of examination of industrial safety on paper, or three working days from the day of receipt of the conclusion of examination of industrial safety in the form of an electronic document. A conclusion of examination of industrial safety may be used for the purposes established by this Federal Law only from the date of its entry in the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or by its territorial body. A positive conclusion of examination of industrial safety of a technical device used at a hazardous production facility, or of a building or structure at a hazardous production facility, means a conclusion containing a finding that those objects of examination of industrial safety fully conform with the industrial safety requirements established for them.
6. For the purposes of this Federal Law, a knowingly false conclusion of examination of industrial safety means a conclusion prepared without that examination having been carried out, or after it has been carried out but manifestly contradicting the content of the materials provided to the expert or experts in the field of industrial safety and considered in the course of the examination of industrial safety, or contradicting the actual condition of the technical devices used at the hazardous production facilities or of the buildings and structures at the hazardous production facilities that were the objects of the examination of industrial safety. A conclusion of examination of industrial safety found to be knowingly false shall be removed from the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety.
7. The register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety is maintained by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety in accordance with the administrative regulation, with the exception of the cases provided for by the second sub-paragraph of this paragraph. The maintenance of the register of conclusions of examination of industrial safety by the federal executive bodies in the fields of defence, security, foreign intelligence, state protection, and mobilisation preparation and mobilisation is carried out in the manner determined by those bodies.
8. The head of an organisation carrying out examination of industrial safety shall: arrange for the examination of industrial safety to be carried out in the manner established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety; ensure that the examination of industrial safety is carried out by experts in the field of industrial safety; ensure the availability of the equipment, instruments, materials and information support facilities necessary for carrying out the examination of industrial safety.
9. An expert in the field of industrial safety shall: determine the conformity of the objects of examination of industrial safety with industrial safety requirements by analysing the materials provided for the examination of industrial safety and the actual condition of the technical devices used at the hazardous production facilities and of the buildings and structures at the hazardous production facilities, prepare the conclusion of examination of industrial safety and provide it to the head of the organisation carrying out the examination of industrial safety. comply with the procedure for carrying out examination of industrial safety and with the requirements for the drawing up of the conclusion of examination of industrial safety established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety. ensure the objectivity and soundness of the findings contained in the conclusion of examination of industrial safety. ensure the safekeeping of the materials provided for the examination of industrial safety and the confidentiality of the information obtained in the course of that examination.
10. An expert in the field of industrial safety shall be prohibited from taking part in carrying out an examination of industrial safety in respect of a hazardous production facility belonging, by right of ownership or on another lawful basis, to an organisation with which the expert is in an employment relationship. A conclusion of examination of industrial safety prepared in breach of that requirement may not be used for the purposes established by this Federal Law.
1. The development of an industrial safety declaration entails a comprehensive assessment of the risk of an accident and of the threat associated with it; an analysis of the sufficiency of the measures taken to prevent accidents, to ensure the readiness of the organisation to operate the hazardous production facility in accordance with industrial safety requirements, and also to contain and eliminate the consequences of an accident at the hazardous production facility; and the development of actions aimed at reducing the scale of the consequences of an accident and the extent of the damage caused in the event of an accident at the hazardous production facility. The list of information to be contained in an industrial safety declaration, and the procedure for drawing it up, are determined by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
2. This Federal Law establishes that the development of industrial safety declarations is mandatory for hazardous production facilities of hazard classes I and II at which hazardous substances are obtained, used, processed, generated, stored, transported or destroyed in the quantities specified in Appendix 2 to this Federal Law (with the exception of the use of explosives in carrying out blasting operations). Sub-paragraph repealed from 15 March 2013. - Federal Law No. 22-FZ of 4 March 2013. Industrial safety declarations for hazardous production facilities of hazard classes III and IV may be developed during the construction, reconstruction, operation, technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of such hazardous production facilities on the initiative of the organisations operating them.
3. An industrial safety declaration is developed as part of the design documentation for the construction or reconstruction of a hazardous production facility, and also as part of the documentation for the technical re-equipment, mothballing or decommissioning of a hazardous production facility. 3.1. The industrial safety declaration of a hazardous production facility in operation is developed anew: where ten years have elapsed from the day on which the latest industrial safety declaration was entered in the register of industrial safety declarations. where the quantity of hazardous substances that are present or may be present at the hazardous production facility has increased by more than twenty per cent. where the industrial safety requirements for the measures and actions specified in paragraph 1 of this Article have changed. on the initiative of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility. pursuant to an order of the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or of its territorial body where a discrepancy is identified between the information contained in the industrial safety declaration and the information obtained in the course of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety.
4. An industrial safety declaration is approved by the head of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility. The head of the organisation operating the hazardous production facility is liable, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, for the completeness and accuracy of the information contained in the industrial safety declaration.
5. An industrial safety declaration developed as part of the documentation for the technical re-equipment, mothballing or decommissioning of a hazardous production facility, industrial safety declarations developed on the initiative of organisations operating hazardous production facilities of hazard classes III and IV during their operation, and an industrial safety declaration developed anew undergo examination of industrial safety in the established manner. Design documentation for the construction or reconstruction of a hazardous production facility that contains an industrial safety declaration shall be subject to examination in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on town-planning activities.
6. The industrial safety declaration is made available to state authorities, local self-government bodies, public associations and citizens in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
7. An industrial safety declaration submitted to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety or to its territorial body is entered in the register of industrial safety declarations within the time limits established by the regulatory legal enactments specified in paragraph 8 of this Article. Such time limits may not exceed five working days from the day of receipt of the industrial safety declaration on paper, or three working days from the day of receipt of the industrial safety declaration in the form of an electronic document.
8. The register of industrial safety declarations is maintained by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety in accordance with the administrative regulation, with the exception of the cases provided for by the second sub-paragraph of this paragraph. The maintenance of the register of industrial safety declarations by the federal executive bodies in the fields of defence, security, foreign intelligence, state protection, and mobilisation preparation and mobilisation is carried out in the manner determined by those bodies.
1. Employees, including heads of organisations, who carry out professional activities connected with the design, construction, operation, reconstruction, capital repair, technical re-equipment, mothballing and decommissioning of a hazardous production facility, and also with the manufacture, installation, setting to work, servicing and repair of technical devices used at a hazardous production facility (hereinafter referred to as employees), shall, to maintain their level of qualification and to confirm their knowledge of industrial safety requirements, receive supplementary professional education in the field of industrial safety and undergo certification in the field of industrial safety not less frequently than once every five years. The categories of such employees are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
2. The training of other categories of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out in accordance with the requirements for such employees established by the Federal Norms and Rules in the field of industrial safety. The forms of that training are determined by the organisation operating the hazardous production facility.
3. The initial certification of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out not later than one month: upon appointment to the corresponding post; upon transfer to other work, where the performance of employment duties in that work requires certification in other areas of certification; upon conclusion of an employment contract with another employer, where the performance of employment duties in that work requires certification in other areas of certification.
4. Extraordinary certification of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out in the cases determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
5. The certification of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out within the scope of the industrial safety requirements necessary for the performance of their employment duties. During the certification of employees in the field of industrial safety, their knowledge of industrial safety requirements is tested in accordance with the areas of certification determined by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
6. The certification of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out by certification commissions formed by the federal executive bodies in the field of industrial safety, or by certification commissions formed by organisations carrying out activities in the field of industrial safety.
7. The categories of employees who are to undergo certification in the field of industrial safety before certification commissions formed by the federal executive bodies in the field of industrial safety are determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
8. Where no certification commission has been formed in an organisation carrying out activities in the field of industrial safety, the certification of employees in the field of industrial safety is carried out by a certification commission formed by the corresponding federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
9. The procedure for carrying out certification in the field of industrial safety is established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
10. Employees who have not passed certification in the field of industrial safety shall not be admitted to work at hazardous production facilities. Employees who have not passed certification in the field of industrial safety may appeal against the decisions of the corresponding certification commission in court in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Compulsory insurance of civil liability for harm caused as a result of an accident or incident at a hazardous production facility shall be effected in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on compulsory insurance of the civil liability of the owner of a hazardous facility for harm caused as a result of an accident at the hazardous facility.
1. Federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety is exercised: a) by the body for the state regulation of industrial safety authorised by the Government of the Russian Federation; b) at the facilities (in the organisations) subordinate to the federal executive bodies specified in paragraph 2 of Article 5 of this Federal Law - by the subdivisions of those federal executive bodies; c) at the facilities used in the development, manufacture, testing, operation and disposal of nuclear weapons and of nuclear power installations for military purposes - by the subdivisions of the federal executive body in the field of defence.
2. The subject matter of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety is: a) compliance by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, in the course of carrying out activities in the field of industrial safety, with the mandatory requirements in the field of industrial safety established by this Federal Law, by other federal laws and by other regulatory legal enactments of the Russian Federation adopted in accordance with them, including: the requirements for the safe conduct of work at hazardous production facilities, including the requirements relating to the use of subsoil. the industrial safety requirements for the operation of hazardous production facilities, of the technical devices used at them, and also of the buildings and structures at hazardous production facilities. the requirements of the safety justification for a hazardous production facility, where activities in the field of industrial safety are carried out by legal entities or individual entrepreneurs applying such a safety justification. the requirements, including fire safety requirements, for the conduct of underground mining operations and for the production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of industrial explosive materials at hazardous production facilities. the licensing requirements for the activity of operating explosion- and fire-hazardous and chemically hazardous production facilities of hazard classes I to III. b) compliance by the manufacturer, the performer (the person exercising the functions of a foreign manufacturer) and the seller with the requirements established by technical regulations, or with the mandatory requirements subject to application until the day of entry into force of technical regulations in accordance with Federal Law No. 184-FZ of 27 December 2002 'On Technical Regulation'.
3. The regulation on federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety specifies the name and the structural elements of the technical regulation and (or) of the mandatory requirements subject to application until the day of entry into force of technical regulations in accordance with Federal Law No. 184-FZ of 27 December 2002 'On Technical Regulation', compliance with which is assessed within the framework of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety, and also the types of products that are objects of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety.
4. The organisation and exercise of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety are governed by Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 'On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation' and, in the cases specified in sub-paragraphs 'b' and 'c' of paragraph 1 of this Article, by the regulatory legal enactments of the corresponding federal executive bodies adopted in agreement with the body for the state regulation of industrial safety authorised by the Government of the Russian Federation. The provisions of paragraphs 5 to 11 of this Article do not apply to relations connected with the exercise of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety in the cases specified in sub-paragraphs 'b' and 'c' of paragraph 1 of this Article.
5. The following preventive activities are carried out in the exercise of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety: a) informing; b) summarisation of practice in applying the law; c) the issuing of warnings; d) measures to encourage good faith, providing for an assessment of the conformity of an organisation operating hazardous production facilities with the good-faith criteria over five years; e) consultation; f) preventive visits.
6. The regulation on federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
7. The following control (supervisory) activities are carried out in the exercise of federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety: a) on-site inspections; b) documentary inspections.
8. The following particular features of the application of the risk assessment and management system in carrying out scheduled control (supervisory) activities are established for federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety: a) in respect of hazardous production facilities of hazard class I or II, scheduled on-site inspections are carried out no more frequently than once a year; b) in respect of hazardous production facilities of hazard class III, scheduled on-site inspections are carried out no more frequently than once every three years; c) in respect of hazardous production facilities of hazard class IV, scheduled on-site inspections are not carried out.
9. In organising the conduct of scheduled control (supervisory) activities, the results of the assessment of the good faith of the persons subject to supervision are taken into account.
10. A regime of permanent state control (supervision) is established at hazardous production facilities of hazard class I in accordance with the provisions of Federal Law No. 248-FZ of 31 July 2020 'On State Control (Supervision) and Municipal Control in the Russian Federation'.
11. The procedure for exercising permanent state control (supervision) is established by the regulation on federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety.
Compliance with the mandatory requirements in the design, construction and reconstruction of hazardous production facilities shall be ensured through the examination of design documentation and through State construction supervision in accordance with the legislation on town-planning activity.
1. Public control in the field of industrial safety means public activity carried out to ensure compliance by organisations carrying out activities in the field of industrial safety, by their heads and other officials, and by individual entrepreneurs and their authorised representatives, with the requirements established by this Federal Law, by other federal laws and by other regulatory legal enactments of the Russian Federation in the field of industrial safety adopted in accordance with them.
2. Public control in the field of industrial safety is exercised on a voluntary basis by public inspectors of the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety, engaged by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety from among trade-union labour inspectors (hereinafter referred to as public inspectors in the field of industrial safety). The procedure for such engagement and the qualification requirements for public inspectors in the field of industrial safety are approved by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety.
3. A public inspector in the field of industrial safety shall: a) inform the territorial body of the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety of the breaches of industrial safety requirements identified by the inspector; b) render assistance to the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety in carrying out control activities and in the technical investigation of the causes of an accident at a hazardous production facility.
4. A public inspector in the field of industrial safety may: a) observe compliance by organisations operating hazardous production facilities with industrial safety requirements; b) submit to organisations operating hazardous production facilities proposals for remedying breaches of industrial safety requirements; c) take part in control activities carried out by the federal executive body in the field of industrial safety, in control (supervisory) actions carried out in the exercise of permanent state control (supervision), and also in the technical investigation of the causes of an accident at a hazardous production facility.
Persons guilty of a breach of this Federal Law shall bear liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
1. Where harm is caused to the life or health of citizens as a result of an accident or an incident at a hazardous production facility, the operating organisation or another owner of the hazardous production facility that is liable for the harm caused shall ensure the payment of compensation towards making good the harm caused: to citizens entitled under civil legislation to compensation for the harm suffered in the event of the death of the victim (the breadwinner) - in the amount of three million roubles. to citizens entitled under civil legislation to compensation for harm caused to health - in an amount determined on the basis of the nature and degree of the impairment of health according to the norms established by the Government of the Russian Federation. The amount of compensation in that case may not exceed three million roubles.
2. The payment of compensation towards making good the harm caused to the life or health of citizens as a result of an accident or an incident at a hazardous production facility does not release the person liable for the harm caused from making it good in accordance with the requirements of civil legislation in the part exceeding the amount of the compensation paid.
1. This Federal Law enters into force on the day of its official publication.
2. The President of the Russian Federation is invited, and the Government of the Russian Federation is instructed, to bring their regulatory legal enactments into conformity with this Federal Law. President of the Russian Federation
Hazardous production facilities are facilities at which:
1) hazardous substances of the following types are obtained, used, processed, generated, stored, transported or destroyed in the quantities specified in Appendix 2 to this Federal Law:
(a) flammable substances - gases which at normal pressure and in a mixture with air become flammable and whose boiling point at normal pressure is 20 degrees Celsius or below;
(b) oxidising substances - substances that support combustion, cause ignition and (or) promote the ignition of other substances as a result of an oxidation-reduction exothermic reaction;
(c) combustible substances - liquids and gases capable of spontaneous combustion, and also of igniting from an ignition source and burning independently after its removal;
(d) explosive substances - substances which, under certain types of external action, are capable of very rapid self-propagating chemical transformation with the evolution of heat and the formation of gases;
(e) toxic substances - substances capable, when acting on living organisms, of causing their death and having the following characteristics:
a median lethal dose on introduction into the stomach of from 15 milligrams per kilogram to 200 milligrams per kilogram inclusive;
a median lethal dose on application to the skin of from 50 milligrams per kilogram to 400 milligrams per kilogram inclusive;
a median lethal concentration in air of from 0.5 milligrams per litre to 2 milligrams per litre inclusive;
(f) highly toxic substances - substances capable, when acting on living organisms, of causing their death and having the following characteristics:
a median lethal dose on introduction into the stomach of not more than 15 milligrams per kilogram;
a median lethal dose on application to the skin of not more than 50 milligrams per kilogram;
a median lethal concentration in air of not more than 0.5 milligrams per litre;
(g) substances presenting a hazard to the environment - substances characterised in an aquatic environment by the following acute toxicity indicators:
a median lethal dose upon inhalation exposure of fish over 96 hours of not more than 10 milligrams per litre;
a median concentration of the poison causing a specified effect upon exposure of daphnia over 48 hours of not more than 10 milligrams per litre;
a median inhibiting concentration upon exposure of algae over 72 hours of not more than 10 milligrams per litre;
2) equipment operating under an excess pressure of more than 0.07 megapascals is used:
(a) of steam or gas (in a gaseous or liquefied state);
(b) of water at a heating temperature of more than 115 degrees Celsius;
(c) of other liquids at a temperature exceeding their boiling point at an excess pressure of 0.07 megapascals;
3) stationary lifting mechanisms (with the exception of lifts and lifting platforms for disabled persons), escalators in underground railways, cableways or funiculars are used;
4) melts of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, or alloys based on such melts, are obtained, transported or used with the use of equipment rated for a maximum quantity of melt of 500 kilograms or more;
5) mining operations (with the exception of the extraction of commonly occurring mineral resources and the development of placer mineral deposits carried out by the open-cast method without the use of blasting operations) or mineral processing operations are carried out;
6) the storage or processing of plant raw materials is carried out in the course of which explosive dust-air mixtures are formed that are capable of spontaneous combustion, of igniting from an ignition source and of burning independently after its removal, and also the storage of grain, of the products of its processing and of compound feed raw materials that are prone to self-heating and spontaneous combustion is carried out.
The following are not classified as hazardous production facilities:
gas distribution networks and gas consumption networks operating under a pressure of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas of up to and including 0.005 megapascals.
1. The hazard classes of the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 1 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law (with the exception of the facilities specified in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Appendix) are established on the basis of the quantity of the hazardous substance or hazardous substances that are simultaneously present or may be present at the hazardous production facility, in accordance with tables 1 and 2 of this Appendix. The hazard classes of the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Appendix are established in accordance with the criteria specified in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Appendix.
2. Hazard class I is established for chemical weapons storage facilities, chemical weapons destruction facilities and hazardous production facilities of special chemistry.
3. The following hazard classes are established for hazardous production facilities for the drilling and extraction of oil, gas and gas condensate: 1) hazard class II - for hazardous production facilities that are hazardous in respect of releases of product with a hydrogen sulphide content exceeding 6 per cent of the volume of such product; 2) hazard class III - for hazardous production facilities that are hazardous in respect of releases of product with a hydrogen sulphide content of from 1 per cent to 6 per cent of the volume of such product; 3) hazard class IV - for hazardous production facilities not specified in sub-paragraphs 1 and 2 of this paragraph.
4. The following hazard classes are established for gas distribution stations and for gas distribution and gas consumption networks: 1) hazard class II - for hazardous production facilities intended for the transportation of natural gas at a pressure exceeding 1.2 megapascals or of liquefied hydrocarbon gas at a pressure exceeding 1.6 megapascals; 2) hazard class III - for hazardous production facilities intended for the transportation of natural gas at a pressure exceeding 0.005 megapascals and up to and including 1.2 megapascals, or of liquefied hydrocarbon gas at a pressure exceeding 0.005 megapascals and up to and including 1.6 megapascals.
5. The following hazard classes are established for the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 2 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law: 1) hazard class III - for hazardous production facilities providing heat supply to the population and to socially significant categories of consumers determined in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on heat supply, and also for other hazardous production facilities at which equipment is used that operates under an excess pressure of 1.6 megapascals or more (with the exception of the equipment of filling stations intended for fuelling vehicles with natural gas) or at a working medium temperature of 250 degrees Celsius or more. 2) hazard class IV - for hazardous production facilities not specified in sub-paragraph 1 of this paragraph.
6. The following hazard classes are established for the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 3 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law: 1) hazard class III - for aerial ropeways; 2) hazard class IV - for hazardous production facilities not specified in sub-paragraph 1 of this paragraph.
7. The following hazard classes are established for the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 4 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law: 1) hazard class II - for hazardous production facilities at which equipment is used that is designed for a maximum quantity of melt of 10 000 kilograms or more; 2) hazard class III - for hazardous production facilities at which equipment is used that is designed for a maximum quantity of melt of from 500 to 10 000 kilograms.
8. The following hazard classes are established for the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 5 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law: 1) hazard class I - for coal industry mines, and also for other facilities carrying out underground mining operations in subsoil plots where the following may occur: explosions of gas and (or) dust; sudden outbursts of rock, gas and (or) dust; rock bursts; inrushes of water into underground mine workings. 2) hazard class II - for facilities carrying out underground mining operations that are not specified in sub-paragraph 1 of this paragraph, for facilities at which opencast mining operations are carried out with a volume of extraction of rock mass of 1 million cubic metres per year or more, and for facilities for the processing of coal (oil shale). 3) hazard class III - for facilities at which opencast mining operations are carried out with a volume of extraction of rock mass of from 100 thousand to 1 million cubic metres per year, and also for facilities at which the beneficiation of minerals is carried out (with the exception of facilities for the processing of coal (oil shale)). 4) hazard class IV - for facilities at which opencast mining operations are carried out with a volume of extraction of rock mass of less than 100 thousand cubic metres per year.
9. The following hazard classes are established for the hazardous production facilities specified in paragraph 6 of Appendix 1 to this Federal Law: 1) hazard class III - for grain elevators and for hazardous production facilities of flour-milling, cereal and compound-feed production; 2) hazard class IV - for other hazardous production facilities.
10. Where different hazard classes may be established for a hazardous production facility according to the criteria specified in paragraphs 1 to 9 of this Appendix, the highest hazard class is established.
11. Where a hazardous production facility for which hazard class II, III or IV shall be established in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 10 of this Appendix is located on the lands of specially protected natural territories, on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation, in internal sea waters, in the territorial sea or the contiguous zone of the Russian Federation, or on an artificial land plot created on a water body in federal ownership, a correspondingly higher hazard class is established for such a hazardous production facility.
Notes: 1. For hazardous substances not listed in Table 1 of this Appendix, the data contained in Table 2 of this Appendix apply.
2. Where various hazardous substances of one type are present, their quantities are added together.
3. Where the distance between hazardous production facilities is less than five hundred metres, the total quantity of hazardous substances of one type is taken into account, irrespective of whether those facilities are operated by one organisation or by different organisations.
4. The rule specified in paragraph 3 of these Notes applies subject to the following particular features: 1) where, according to the information contained in the industrial safety declaration of a hazardous production facility, no other hazardous production facilities are located within the probable zone of action of the damaging factors of an accident at such a hazardous production facility, the total quantity of hazardous substances of one type that are present or may be present at such a hazardous production facility and at other hazardous production facilities is not taken into account in determining the hazard class of such a hazardous production facility. 2) in establishing the hazard class of a hazardous production facility of pipeline transport, the total quantity of hazardous substances of one type that are present or may be present in the linear parts of the attached pipelines fitted with isolating pipeline valves ensuring the possibility of automatic control of the shutdown of the technological process is taken into account up to the units of such valves located at a distance of not less than 500 metres from the boundaries of that hazardous production facility. For these purposes, a hazardous production facility of pipeline transport is a hazardous production facility comprising a trunk pipeline for the transportation of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, a marine pipeline, a field (inter-field) pipeline, a pipeline for the transportation of the broad fraction of light hydrocarbons and of liquefied hydrocarbon gases, or an ammonia pipeline.
Name of the hazardous substance
Quantity of the hazardous substance, t
Hazard class I
Hazard class II
Hazard class III
Hazard class IV
Ammonia
5000 or more
500 or more but less than 5000
50 or more but less than 500
10 or more but less than 50
Ammonium nitrate (ammonium nitrate and ammonium mixtures in which the nitrogen content from ammonium nitrate is more than 28 per cent by mass, and also aqueous solutions of ammonium nitrate in which the concentration of ammonium nitrate exceeds 90 per cent by mass)
25 000 or more
2500 or more but less than 25 000
250 or more but less than 2500
50 or more but less than 250
Ammonium nitrate in the form of fertilisers (straight fertilisers based on ammonium nitrate, and also compound fertilisers in which the nitrogen content from ammonium nitrate is more than 28 per cent by mass (compound fertilisers contain ammonium nitrate together with phosphate and (or) potassium)
100 000 or more
10 000 or more but less than 100 000
1000 or more but less than 10 000
200 or more but less than 1000
Acrylonitrile
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
4 or more but less than 20
Chlorine
250 or more
25 or more but less than 250
2.5 or more but less than 25
0.5 or more but less than 2.5
Ethylene oxide
500 or more
50 or more but less than 500
5 or more but less than 50
1 or more but less than 5
Hydrogen cyanide
200 or more
20 or more but less than 200
2 or more but less than 20
0.4 or more but less than 2
Hydrogen fluoride
500 or more
50 or more but less than 500
5 or more but less than 50
1 or more but less than 5
Hydrogen sulphide
500 or more
50 or more but less than 500
5 or more but less than 50
1 or more but less than 5
Sulphur dioxide
2500 or more
250 or more but less than 2500
25 or more but less than 250
5 or more but less than 25
Sulphur trioxide
750 or more
75 or more but less than 750
7.5 or more but less than 75
1.5 or more but less than 7.5
Lead alkyls
500 or more
50 or more but less than 500
5 or more but less than 50
1 or more but less than 5
Phosgene
7.5 or more
0.75 or more but less than 7.5
0.075 or more but less than 0.75
0.015 or more but less than 0.075
Methyl isocyanate
1.5 or more
0.15 or more but less than 1.5
0.015 or more but less than 0.15
0.003 or more but less than 0.015
Types of hazardous substances
Quantity of hazardous substances, t
Hazard class I
Hazard class II
Hazard class III
Hazard class IV
Flammable and combustible gases
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
1 or more but less than 20
Combustible liquids held at commodity and raw material warehouses and depots
500 000 or more
50 000 or more but less than 500 000
1000 or more but less than 50 000
-
Combustible liquids used in a technological process or transported by trunk pipeline
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
1 or more but less than 20
Toxic substances
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
1 or more but less than 20
Highly toxic substances
200 or more
20 or more but less than 200
2 or more but less than 20
0.1 or more but less than 2
Oxidising substances
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
1 or more but less than 20
Explosive substances
500 or more
50 or more but less than 500
less than 50
-
Substances hazardous to the environment
2000 or more
200 or more but less than 2000
20 or more but less than 200
1 or more but less than 20