Geothermal Safety and Health Rules and Regulations in the Philippines
- Key words
- Safety, rules and regulations, geothermal operations
- Location
- Philippines
- Conference
- World Geothermal Congress
- Year
- 2005
- Session
- 3. Legal and Regulatory Aspects
- Language
- English
- Paper number
- 0309
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Abstract
The Philippine Department of Energy is mandated to ensure adequate safety and protection against hazards to health, life as well as pollution of air, land and water from geothermal operations.
The Geothermal Safety and Health Rules and Regulations (GSHRR) was formulated. It incorporates the modern safety management systems that enforce measures on risk assessment, identify the significant hazards and set the framework that will enable geothermal industries to set their own safety management control. Likewise, it contains the DOE's new administrative requirements on occupational safety and health provisions and updated standards for an effective safety management of geothermal operations in the country.
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